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23rd January 2010, 01:28 PM
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Club info please
Hi Guys,Can you help me out with this one its 4ft longwith greenish stone.
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23rd January 2010, 01:42 PM
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Hi Graeme
Its from New Guinea - the stone head would have been cemented to the shaft with "putty nut". Nice piece. Regards |
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23rd January 2010, 01:54 PM
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On the site of the Division of Antropology of the American Museum of Natural History (http://anthro.amnh.org/), I found some examples in the collection's database.
This type of club comes from New Britain and is called 'Palau'. |
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23rd January 2010, 02:16 PM
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Thanks Guys,Putty Nut you couldnt make it up.
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23rd January 2010, 10:02 PM
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You lucky lucky chap. Not just PNG but other Islands. I believe that the stone ball heads are often held to the haft by dried clay, Atuna nut putty is an extreamly resilient substance and would still be evident. When clay is dry it would hold for most purposes at the time, think of sun dried mud bricks.
Last edited by Tim Simmons; 23rd January 2010 at 10:22 PM. |
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8th August 2010, 08:34 PM
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graeme you will find this interesting.
Piercing hole worked from both sdes. Held fast with barkcloth, easy to fall apart easy to replace. Probably why older ones like yours are always loose. Just get some tourist painted barkcloth and adapt? Pictures from 1936-7 {The Kukukuku of the Upper Watut, Beatrice Blackwood}. Sorry for such huge pictures but not much point in showing otherwise. |
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