Object Number: Ea6638

Collection: World Cultures

Object Name: club

Local Name: patu paraoa

Description: Short Club; a flat blade with a spatulate convex distal end narrowing to handle/grip with enlaged butt end. The butt end is leaf shaped and has seven carved inverted ridges. At the narrowest section of the handle a hole has been drilled from both ends for the addition of a loop grip [Buck, 1966, 279]. There is a small chip on the spatulate convex distal end.