prmlogo2Cook-Voyage Collections
at the Pitt Rivers Museum

1886.1.1447

PRM000127908Club, of wood, from Tonga; part of the Forster collection (Forster 79; 1886.1.1447)

Wooden club. Leaf-stalk shaped. Undecorated. The shaft and head are four-sided. The handle is bound with plaited coconut fibre, over another type of plant fibre

 

  PRM0001302635179Detail of binding
PRM0001296625134Microscope image – club wood
PRM0001296615134Microscope image – fibre from binding
PRM0001298185179Ashmolean label
PRM0001298195179Ashmolean label
PRM0001298205179Ashmolean label
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