Object Record
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Metadata
Object Name |
Club |
Other Name |
root club |
Catalog Number |
2006-02 |
Nation/Culture |
Passamaquoddy |
Date |
1912 |
Description |
Root club with root tips carved to points, but no figural carving. It has a simple stem with leaves chip-carved spiraling around the handle, and triagular scalloping at end of the handle and base of roots. This root club was carved by a Passamaquoddy carver for William McLaughlin at Orange River, Whiting, Maine in 1912. |
Medium/Material |
wood (birch?) |
Dimensions |
W-9.5 L-24 D-11.5 inches |
Collection |
Abbe Museum Permanent Collection |
Source |
Gift of Earl Myers |
Local Context |
Attribution Incomplete CI Label Open to Collaborate CI Label |