Club
Vanuatu (New Hebrides)
not dated
Wood
Overall: 21 5/8 in. (55 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Harry A. Franklin Family Collection
990.54.27263
Geography
Place Made: Vanuatu, Melanesia, Oceania
Period
20th century
Object Name
Armament
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Exhibition History
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
Acquired by Harry A. Franklin (1903-1983), Los Angeles, California, in the 1950s; to the Harry A. Franklin Family Collection, Los Angeles, California, 1983; given to present collection, 1990.
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