War Club
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: WAR CLUB CARVED FROM A SINGLE PIECE OF HARDWOOD. THE HANDLE NARROWS AT THE END, THEN FLARES AND HAS A DRILLED LUG AT THE BASE, PRESUMABLY FOR A SUSPENSION CORD.THE HEAD OF THE CLUB IS BALL-SHAPED AND HAS CARVED FORMS AT THE TOP AND AROUND THE SIDES. THIS OBJECT WAS ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE PACIFIC HALL, N.M.N.H., 1989 [that exhibit dismantled in 2004]. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSUEM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies this as ""Kolo" a missile war club of Fiji origin used by the Tonga Islanders.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tongatapu Group, Tonga, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tongan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3587-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Club
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 56 cm
label: Width - Head
content: 9 cm