prmlogo2Cook-Voyage Collections
at the Pitt Rivers Museum

1886.1.1445

PRM000127904Club, of wood, from Tonga; part of the Forster collection (Forster 70; 1886.1.1445)

Wooden club. Leaf-stalk shaped. Undecorated. The handle is rounded and becomes four-sided as it nears the head. The handle end is carved into a rectangular peg shape with the remains of knotted plant fibre tied through it.

 

  PRM0001296595134Microscope image – club wood
PRM0001298115179Ashmolean label
PRM0001298125179Ashmolean label
PRM0001298135179Unidentified label
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