War Club
Unidentified Samoan maker
collected 1838-1842
Wood and plant fiber
Overall: 43 3/16 × 4 5/16 in. (109.7 × 11 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Smithsonian Institution
13.3.687
Geography
Place Made: Samoa, Polynesia, Oceania
Place Made: Western Samoa, 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.
Peoples of Oceania: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 47, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-30, 1995.
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
Collected by U.S. Exploring Expedition (Peale no. 1216) in Fiji, 1838-1842; transferred by order of the United States Congress to the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C (no. 4984), 1857; acquired by the Dartmouth College Museum, Hanover, New Hampshire, in an exchange, 1880's; catalogued, 1913.
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