prmlogo2Cook-Voyage Collections
at the Pitt Rivers Museum

1886.1.1433

PRM000127895Club, of wood, from Tonga; part of the Forster collection (Forster 73; 1886.1.1433)

Wooden club with a smooth handle and a paddle-bladed head. Two sets of horizontal ridges separate the shaft from the head. The head is decorated with a carved, zig-zag pattern

 

  PRM0001302395179Club head, side 1
PRM0001302405179Club head, side 2
PRM0001296445134Microscope image of club wood
PRM0001297955179Older Ashmolean label
PRM0001297965179Ashmolean label
PRM0001297975179Unidentified label
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