club
- Museum number
- Oc.9644
- Description
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Nephrite club, mere pounamu : mottled light-bluish green inanga, slight shoulders, old round hole with remnants of flax cord, three low ridges on butt; polished.
- Dimensions
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Length: 31.20 centimetres
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Width: 8.10 centimetres
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Depth: 1.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Starzecka, Neich & Pendergrast 2010
Register: ‘Rare colour of jade.’
Comments: Eighteenth century; very well proportioned (RN); South Island (DRS).
- Location
- On display (G1/wp97)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1990 20 Oct-9 Dec, Japan, Tokyo, Setagaya Art Museum, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.246
1991 5 Jan-20 Feb, Japan, Yamaguchi, Prefectural Museum of Art, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.246
1991 9 Mar-7 May, Japan, Osaka, National Museum of Art, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.246
- Acquisition date
- 1876 (20 January)
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.9644
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1876C1.9644 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1876C0120.4