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CollectionABDUA University of Aberdeen, Human Culture Collection
Object NameThrowing club
Club
411
Object NumberABDUA:5110
Other NumberF46
Other Number Typeold number
Brief DescriptionThrowing-club (wood) with a slender shaft swelling to pear-shaped head; grip bound with fibre fixed with gum ( or resin). Some incised lines of secoration near the grip. Surface smoothed. A white lable with "46" is stuck on the shaft.
DimensionsL: 630 mm; W: 70 mm
Materialswood, veg fibre, gum
CompletenessComplete
Place KeyMelanesia, Australia
Publication NoteReid 1912, Illustrated Catalogue of the Anthropological Museum, University of Aberdeen, 46;
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