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Description: | CULT unknown c1890's Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand Polynesia Club with decoration of curvilinear designs and tattooed figure with three fingers and shell inlays in eyes in figure of eight shape (on edge of blade). Abstract animal figure with shell inlays in eyes at base of handle. Hole through plain part of handle.
Such clubs were not used in combat but functioned as a symbol of the holder's authority. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | MAORI : WEAPON : ETHNO1_2007 : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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