War Club Head

Unidentified maker (New Britain)

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19th century

Stone

Overall: 2 3/8 × 3 7/16 in. (6 × 8.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III

181.2.26230

Geography

Place Made: New Britain, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania

Period

19th century

Object Name

Armament

Research Area

Oceania

Not on view

Provenance

Edward W. Payne Stone Age Collection, Lewistown, Illinois; sold to Glover Street Hastings III, West Newton, Massachusetts and Bridgeton, Maine, 1930's; bequeathed to his daughter, Carlena Hastings Redfield (1888-1981), 1949; bequeathed to present collection [under the terms of her father's will], 1981.

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