Description (CMS Description)
Club, 'root'.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card reads [printed:] 'Z 39431. MELANESIA. FIJI. "Root" Club. Length 110 cms. Rows of zigzag pattern along handle. Whale ivory inlay in butt, star-shaped inlays in knots of root. High patina. No original numbers visible.' [added in blue pen:] 'CHRISTIES EXH. JAN 5-25. 1995.' [added in black ink:] '(Centenary Exhibition).
Event Date 1/9/1998
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: 'Z 39431' inscribed in white ink on the shaft.
Event Date 28/8/2013
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (CMS Description)
Club of dark wood, vunikau. Head carved from a root. The various protuberances and the top are inlaid with whale ivory stars. The shaft bends slightly near the handle. The handle is carved with tavatava patterns in low-relief. The butt is inlaid with a whale ivory star.
Event Date 28/8/2013
Author: maa

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 ()
CON.2014.144 |
Event Date 1/3/2016
Author: maa