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

Context (Display)
Exhibited in Show Case number 7. [undated]
Event Date
Author: rachel hand

Description (CMS Description)
Club, pineapple.
Event Date 1/6/1996
Author: maa

Context (Auction / Sale)
Bought London c.1895 (?).
Event Date 1/6/1996
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card 1 reads [stamped in black ink:] 'FIJI'. [typed:] 'Z-3097. CLUB, "Pineapple". "Tuki". Bought London.' [stamped in black ink:] 'THE VON HÜGEL COLLECTION CIRCA'. [added in black ink:] '1895 (?)'. [in pencil in the bottom left corner:] '7/1'. [stamped in blue ink in the bottom right corner:] 'SHOW CASE NUMBER 7'. A small round red sticker pasted to the front of the card.
Catalogue card 2 reads [handwritten in black ink:] 'Z 3097. Club, "Pineapple", "Tuki". Bought London, 1895 (?). Show Case number 7'.
Event Date 21/7/2013
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (CMS Description)
Very heavy club of dark wood, totokia ('pineapple' club). The head is circular in section (about 11 cm diameter) and carved with 8 rows of projecting spikes (some chipped). From the centre of the head projects a conical beak (about 8.4 cm long), slightly chipped at the end. The shaft is curved at the top and circular in section. The entirety of the shaft is carved with very fine tavatava patterns (Tongan carving?) and includes several figures: a man eaten by a shark, a man holding a totokia club, a hybrid man-turtle, a turtle, a hammerhead shark, another shark, two ?fish or ?sharks, a bird, another turtle, a man holding a culacula paddle, a man and a quadruped (pig or dog?). Flat discoidal butt. The rim of the butt is carved with two lines of zigzags and the butt is decorated with ?burnt dots.
Event Date 21/7/2013
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: 'Z. 3097' inscribed in white ink on the butt.
Event Date 21/7/2013
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.2015.1992 | Assessment Only
Event Date 10/9/2015
Author: rah99

Description (CMS Description)
Club.
Head is circular in section and carved with 8 rows of projecting spikes. The entirety of the shaft is carved with tavatava patterns, including several figures.
Event Date 7/12/2016
Author: maa

Conservation ()
CON.2014.131 |
Event Date 1/3/2016
Author: maa

Loan (Exhibition)
Palazzo Cavelli-Franchetti, Venice, 15/10/2021 to 13/3/2022, Power & Prestige: The art of Clubs in Oceania
Event Date 15/10/2021
Author: rachel hand

Conservation (Assessment Only)
CON.2021.5073 | Assessment Only
Event Date 9/6/2021
Author: Kirstie French