Description (Labels & Markings)
'67.72' inscribed in white ink on the handle.
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card 1 reads [handwritten in black ink:] '67.172. Oceania. Fiji. Pole club (Bowai). Grip decorated with incised design. Haft bound with sinnit. D. Mrs Watson.' [stamped in black ink:] 'CUMAA 10 JUN 1988 TRANSCRIBED'.
Catalogue card 2 reads [handwritten in blue pen:] '67.172. Oceania. Fiji. Pole club (Bowai). Grip decorated with incised design. Haft bound with sinnit. D. Mrs Watson.'
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Grip decorated with incised design. Haft bound with sinnet.
Event Date 10/6/1988
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Pole club of heavy dark wood, possibly a cross between a gadi and a bowai. The head is flared and convex at the top. The shaft is circular in section with a slight bend in the wood due to a knot. The handle is carved with deep tavatava patterns. The lower part of the handle is bound with a thin layer of barkcloth and 3-ply plaited coir cords. A length of twisted vegetable fibre attached between the carved and the bound parts. The butt is concave (L.Carreau, 25/03/2013).
Event Date 25/3/2013
Author: maa