Club, D58.8 | Tūhura Otago Museum

Physical Description

Wooden club. The business end of the club appears to represent a birds head which utilises natural characteristics of the base wood. 2 rounded knobs about the position of wattles. Most of surfaces has been thinly and carefully charred. Handle short and rounded.

Provenance

Locality: from a swamp near Tauranga

By Henry Uttley, originally collected by the headmaster at Fairfield Primary School: Erwin Klitcher

Measurements

Maximum dimensions (H x W x D): 270 x 126 x 71mm