Showing items held at 13 different institutions.
Showing items held at 13 different institutions.
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Short wooden baton with an octopus head at one end and its tentacles wrapped around the shaft. The handle is slightly flared and undecorated. The ?mouth of the octopus is at the end of the baton, its head and eye has been split in two between itslegs. The legs are incised with circles and dots, characteristic of the octopus' s suckers.; Good
Whalebone club with a bird' s head handle, the eyes inlaid with abalone shell. Some inlay lost. An old label on the reverse of the catalogue card, possibly from Wisbech reads, War Club of carved bone. The head which rudely represents a Native Idol, inlaid with the iridescent Shell of Haliotis splendens. New Zealand. 1836. Capt. Swaine, RN. The club was erroneously given the wrong provenance of New Zealand.; Good.
Whalebone club inlaid with haliotis or abalone in a dot and groove pattern down the length of the blade. The bottom of the blade pattern ends in a human face, the same on both sides. The top of the handle is carved into the characteristic open mouthed bird-like profile, with an inlaid eye and grooves.; Good
Whalebone club with characteristic open-mouthed bird-like handle end which is carved in profile with an elongated eye. The blade of the club has a serrated band pattern running down its length terminating in a tongue. The blade is thick and has been severely worn on one side, and there are several notches in the edges. The carved grooves appear to have had some reddish substance colouring the design. A piece of twine is wrapped round the neck of the club.; Good.
Wooden slave killing club decorated with hair. The carved wooden head has an open mouth from which the wooden blade protrudes in the form of a tongue. Set into the head are teeth, and tufts of hair (?human) on the scalp, cheeks, below the nose and chin. Some tufts are missing.; Good.
A truncheon shaped baton of wood with a rounded bottom end and a grooved top section.; Good
Short carved club made from fine-grained heavy wood. The club is surmounted by a bird, possibly an owl which has large round eyes and a down-turned mouth. The bird' s feet rest on the top of a tapering shaft which ends in a rounded pommel.; Good
A sample of cedar bark which is red coloured and flattened.; Good
A worn bark beater made from whalebone. The handle terminates in a fish-tail shaped section. The rectangular face of the beater is incised with eight parallel grooves.; Good
A bark beater carved from whalebone. The handle of the beater is double ended, one being longer, and the other shorter with a round ended groove cut into its end. The slightly flared rectangular beater section has a cavity through its centre. Theunderside of the beater is scored with fourteen parallel grooves.; Good