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IPSMG:R.1938.1.36

Ipswich Collections

Club made of palm wood. One side of the blade is plain and on the other side the top is decorated with a semi-circle in which sections of black pigment and in the middle of the blade, v-shapes painted red and black. The butt has a netted fibre string partially coated with lime. The top of the covering has plaited tassels of human hair. Marked in pencil on blade: 'New Ireland'.

Melanesia, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, New Ireland

19th Century

wood, vegetable fibre, hair, human, lime, pigment