club
- Museum number
- Oc,LMS.153
- Description
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Wooden club, patu rakau : brown; thick, heavy, bulbous blade of circular cross section; narrower constricted handle flaring toward butt carved in openwork with face on one side, beginnings of surface ornamentation on mouth, unfinished.
- Production date
- 18thC-19thC(early) (before 1824)
- Dimensions
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Height: 42 centimetres
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Width: 11 centimetres
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Depth: 10 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Starzecka, Neich & Pendergrast 2010
Marked in black ink: ‘New Zealand club. Marihurue. July 1824. Geo Bennet.’
Provenance: London Missionary Society Collection.
Label: ‘No 571. LM Socy.’
Comments: North Auckland, 1800s (RN); Taranaki, eighteenth century (DRS).
References: Edge-Partington 1969 i: 384.3.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1911
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,LMS.153
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1911C27.153 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1890,Loan (originally loaned to BM in 1890 by LMS)
