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Description: | Carved club which may have been collected by John Williams. Tongan clubs are known as akau, this is a long bladed club of the type known as pakipaki, it has five carved collars with several carved ridges on each collar. Formerly in the collections of the London Missionary Society.
Jill Hasell of the British Museum has suggested this is a Tongan club. Fletcher notebook: June 1962 - Miss Backwell, 40 Cromwell Rd, Canterbury - sent some articles she had inherited as a descendant of John Williams herself....1 carved club. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Subjects: | Williams John | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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