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Actions Displays	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Object number IPSMG:R.1938.1.72 Institution name Ipswich Collections Object name club Description Club made of heavy, dark brown wood, engraved over the whole surface in sections. These sections are filled with lines, zigzags and other motifs. Whalebone inlay of two birds(?) on one side and the sun and the moon on the other. Loop at butt. Marked in white ink at the end of the butt: '1938.1.72'. Index card: 'A damaged and v faded old handwritten long rectangular label reads? "Mr L. Beach -". Production place Polynesia, Tonga Production period 19th Century Material wood, whalebone Tags Comments Add tag(s) Add comment

Object number

IPSMG:R.1938.1.72
Institution name

Ipswich Collections
Object name

club
Description

Club made of heavy, dark brown wood, engraved over the whole surface in sections. These sections are filled with lines, zigzags and other motifs. Whalebone inlay of two birds(?) on one side and the sun and the moon on the other. Loop at butt. Marked in white ink at the end of the butt: '1938.1.72'. Index card: 'A damaged and v faded old handwritten long rectangular label reads? "Mr L. Beach -".
Production place

Polynesia, Tonga
Production period

19th Century
Material

wood, whalebone

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