Wooden club with striking end bent perpendicularly. The club is ellipsoid in cross-section, the striking end being rounded and ornamented with transversal white stripes and a wavy pattern by the bend. At the other end a hole has been bored, by which the club may be hung up. Coloured light brown.
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Details
- Collector/creator
- Fabian Bellingshausen
- Time collected
- 1820
- Location collected
- Port Jackson, Australia
- Transfer history
- Admiralty Museum, Saint Petersburg, 1822 > >
- Current museum
- Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Saint Petersburg
- Time deposited to current museum
- 1828
- Current museum number
- 736-190
- Material
- Wood
- Measurements
- Length of club, 55.5 cm; length of bent end, 25 cm; width, 4.5-6 cm, thickness 2 cm
- Source/publication/study
- Barratt 1981; Belkov 2015