Context (CMS Context)
Collected by: Calvert.Miss.M.G
Event Date 10/6/1988
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Originally wholly bound with sinnet which is now very broken.
Event Date 10/6/1988
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
The binding used to be wrapped in newspaper dated Thursday 3 September 1964 (disposed off).
Event Date 24/3/2013
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: 'Fragments of an old label pasted to the butt [illegible]
Event Date 24/3/2013
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card 1 reads [handwritten in blue pen:] '64.151. Oceania. Fiji. Club (moivi) originally wholly bound with sinnet which is now very broken. Donated by Miss M. G. Calvert 1964. Originally in the possession of her grandfather the Rev. James Calvert.' [stamped in black ink:] 'CUMAA 10 JAN 1988 TRANSCRIBED'. A small round red sticker pasted to the front of the card.
Catalogue card 2 reads [handwritten in blue pen:] '64.151. Oceania. Fiji. Club (moivi) originally wholly bound with sinnet cord which is now badly broken. Donated by Miss M. G. Calvert 1964. Originally in the possession of her grandfather the Rev. James Calvert.'
Event Date 24/3/2013
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (CMS Description)
Large pole club of dark wood, gadi or moivi (indigenous name from catalogue card). The head is flared and convex at the top. The shaft is circular in section. Part of the shaft is bound in very damaged and shedding fine cords of 3-ply plaited coir (fragments of the cord are kept in a bag with the object). The butt is flat.
Event Date 24/3/2013
Author: maa