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Description: | A hand club of grey basalt with rounded blade, the pommel ribbed and pierced for suspension from the wrist by a flax band. Used in close combat. Highly polished, such weapons became heirlooms. - - Maori, North Island, Aotearoa (New Zealand), POLYN, Pacific | Format: | text/html | License: | http://rammuseum.org.uk/legal | Publisher: | Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter City Council | Rights holder: | Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter City Council | Subjects: | Arms and armour Ethnography | Source: | Royal Albert Memorial Museum | Creator: | Not specified | Identifier: | http://rammcollections.org.uk/content/ca... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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