Alcheringa Images

Club

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