Loan (Long Term Gallery Loan)
Saffron Walden ethnography gallery On Loan from 1982, renewed 1989; 1993; 1996; 2002. Renewal requested May 2007 for a further three years, renewed in 2012 for 2 more years, Nov 2012 for two further years and Nov 2014 for 2 more years until Nov 2016

Reference: Ln384
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Solomon Islands Club
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Wooden club, with leaf-shaped head and raised central mid-rib, elliptic in cross-section. Decorated on upper part of club’s head with a bell-shaped design. Serrated edges on the inside of the outline, the mid rib runs through the design. The surface of the design is in filled with white pigment (?lime), but only fragments remaining.
Design at base of head is the same design in reverse, but lacking the serrated edge. One side of the bell-shaped design is filled with red pigment, the other with white, ?lime. Below this, the mid-rib ends and the head is decorated with an oval shape with double outline, the outer red, the inner white. The inner design shows two rows of incised squares, the central dividing line is red. The designs are repeated on the reverse side, but more faded. Shaft is oval in cross-section, with pointed end.
Event Date 7/2/2008
Author: rachel hand

Description (Labels & Markings)
Old white circular paper label on shaft noting “7.”, near head.

Event Date 19/8/2022
Author: rachel hand

Conservation (Museum Additions Removed)
CON.2023.5571 | Museum Additions Removed
Event Date 5/1/2023
Author: Kirstie French