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Description: | Old reactangular label reads E357, 'TONGA' painted on the top. New holes show the natural colour of the wood under a coating of black varnish. CULT unknown Tonga Polynesia The club is formed of a straight circular shaft, which flares out at the oval head. It has finely carved decoration with a wooden loop at the butt, perhaps for a wrist cord. The decoration is made up of interlocking geometric patterns interrupted at the head with small human and animal figures.
The Robertson catalogue attributes this club to Captain Cook through William Hunter on unknown evidence, however Adrienne Kaeppler has expressed doubt that this is a Cook object. The coating of black varnish implies it was in the Old Hunterian collection, in which many objects were treated with this varnish. In this case it may be one of the clubs Laskey speaks of in his 1813 account. | 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: | JEN : CLUB : HUNTER_ETHNO_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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