club
- Museum number
- Oc1944,02.916
- Description
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Wood club, dark brown, pointed oval in section, pierced above the grip for a plaited coconut fibre wrist cord.
- Production date
- 19th Century (Pre- 1892)
- Dimensions
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Height: 82.50 centimetres
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Width: 8 centimetres
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Depth: 5 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Note in 1944 Beasley register: 'King of Apiang's club presented by him to Captain Davis 9 June 1892 on annexation of Gilbert Islands.'
No original Beasley collection number recorded
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1983–1986 16 Dec-29 Jun, London, BM, Museum of Mankind, Pattern of islands: Micronesia yesterday and today
- Acquisition date
- 1944
- Acquisition notes
- Collected on Admiral Davis' third voyage on the HMS Royalist to Kiribati, the Marshall Islands and Tuvalu, specifically between 25th May 1892 and 14th July 1892.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1944,02.916
