Club head
Discoidal head of a stone-headed club.
These war clubs were used throughout southern Papua New Guinea until the early 20th Century. They are part of a complex trade network between the quarries of Torres Strait Islands and the Papuan Gulf which has very little stone. Finer examples are decorated with a fine plume of red parrot feathers.
These war clubs were used throughout southern Papua New Guinea until the early 20th Century. They are part of a complex trade network between the quarries of Torres Strait Islands and the Papuan Gulf which has very little stone. Finer examples are decorated with a fine plume of red parrot feathers.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 136/1993/53
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Arms and armour
- Collection Area Region
- MELAN
- Material
- stone
- Common Name
- club head
- Simple Name
- stone head
- Production County
- Papuan Gulf
- Production Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Production Year High
- pre 1993
