Club (wahaika)

Unidentified Māori maker

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late 19th century

Wood and paua shell

Overall: 13 3/8 × 5 1/4 × 1 in. (34 × 13.3 × 2.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College

13.16.799

Geography

Place Made: New Zealand, Polynesia, Oceania

Period

19th century

Object Name

Armament

Research Area

Oceania

Not on view

Exhibition History

Basis for Design: Visual Problem Solving, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Studio Art 10, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 31-April 26, 1998.

Changing Traditions in Pacific Art, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 38, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 7-November 10, 2002.

Peoples of Oceania: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Anthropology 47, April 1-30, 1995.

Polynesian Tapa: Decorated Barkcloth from Tonga and Samoa, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Robert Welsch, Anthropology 38, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 23-November 28, 2004.

The Art of War: Melanesian and Polynesian Expressions of Beauty and Violence, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 47, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 27-May 13, 2001.

Provenance

Source unknown; may have been collected by Professor William Patten, 1912 [in his diary he lists a "carved Meri Kotiati" being purchased for 40 sh.]; catalogued, 1913.

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