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

Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: '67.174' inscribed in white ink on the lower part of the handle.
Event Date 25/3/2013
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card 1 reads [handwritten in black ink:] '67.174. Oceania. Fiji. Club (vunikau). Grip decorated with incised design. Shaft bound with sinnit. d. Mrs Watson.' [stamped in black ink:] 'CUMAA 10 JUN 1988 TRANSCRIBED'. A small round red sticker pasted to the front of the card.
Catalogue card 2 reads [handwritten in blue pen:] '67.174. Oceania. Fiji. Club (vunikau). Grip decorated with incised design. Shaft bound with sinnit. D. Watson.'
Event Date 25/3/2013
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (CMS Description)
Club of heavy dark wood, vunikau [from catalogue card] or soke-kia [from Clunie's type, 2003]. The head is long and carved with several protruding ovals. Top of the head projects upwards and is almost flat. The shaft is circular in section, and used to be bound - only a portion of the binding of twisted coir is left, coiled around the shaft. The handle (lower part of the shaft) is carved in low-relief with tavatava forming a panel of very thick vertical zigzags. The carved area is 16 cm long. Butt is flat. Several very deep crack running longitudinally along the shaft. A nail inserted in the handle.
Event Date 25/3/2013
Author: maa