club
- Museum number
- Oc1894,-.284
- Description
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Club of wood, red pigment.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1894)
- Dimensions
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Height: 72.20 centimetres
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Width: 10.70 centimetres
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Depth: 4.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Christy collection registration slip, written in 1894?:
New South Wales.
Club of hard dark-brown wood with straight rounded handle and massive three-edged head projecting at one side of a vertical line drawn up the handle. The head is thickest at centre of a line running at right angles to the stem, from which line it is sloped downwards to the stem and upwards to the apex, which is pointed. Toward the lower part of the handle three heads of geometrical carving, and at the extremity, a single roughly incised groove. The apex covered for 1 1/4 in. with red dye: edges rounded.
Bogan.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1894
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1894,-.284
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1894C3.284 (old CDMS no.)