Exhibition (Maudslay Gallery)
EXH.2018.4 | Pacific Currents
Event Date
Author: Remke Velden

Loan (Exhibition)
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA, Norwich, October 15 2016- February 12 2017, Fiji: Art and Life in the Pacific
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Club, "lotus"
Event Date 1/6/1996
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Collected c 1875
Event Date 1/6/1996
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Heavy club of dark wood, siriti. The head is triangular in shape and carved with a very fine tavatava patterns. On one side, the upper part of the head shows two turtles and the lower part is carved with a sting-ray or a bird. On the other side, the upper part has is carved with a bird, another bird or sting-ray, and the lower part with a human being. The upper part of the shaft and the handle are carved with tavatava patterns. The shaft and handle are oval in section. The butt is flat and carved with tavatava patterns in low-relief.
Event Date 25/3/2013
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
The catalogue card indicates that Maudslay was the collector and donor of this object. However, the presence of an 'H' in the 'O.X.' number indicates that the collector and donor is Anatole von Hügel.
Event Date 25/3/2013
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: 'Z. 2983' and 'O.X.170.H.' inscribed in white ink above the handle.
Event Date 25/3/2013
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card 1 reads [stamped in black ink:] 'Z 2983. FIJI'. [typed:] 'Club, "Lotus", "Siriti". A. P. Maudslay. Circa 1875'. [added in blue pen:] 'CHRISTIES EXHIBITION JAN 5-25 1995'. [in pencil in the bottom left corner:] '5/18'. [stamped in blue ink in the bottom right corner:] 'SHOW CASE NUMBER 5'. A small round red sticker pasted to the front of the card.
Catalogue card 2 reads [handwritten in black ink:] 'Z 2983. Club, "Lotus", "Siriti". A. P. Maudslay. circa 1875. Show Case number 5.' [in pencil in the bottom left corner:] '5/13'.
Event Date 25/3/2013
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (CMS Context)
Exhibited: 'Chiefs & Governors: Art and power in Fiji', Cambridge MAA, 7 June 2013 - 19 April 2014.
Event Date 25/4/2014
Author: Remke van der Velden

Conservation (Assessment Only)
CON.2015.1989 | Assessment Only
Event Date 10/9/2015
Author: rah99

Description (CMS Description)
Club.
Siriti. Head is triangular in shape and carved with a very fine tavatava patterns.
Event Date 7/12/2016
Author: maa

Conservation ()
CON.2014.136 |
Event Date 1/3/2016
Author: maa