Club (before 1930): Art, History and Details
Club at the Cleveland Museum of Art: before 1930, wood. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Club (before 1930) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
Craftsmen from the Trobriand Islands (off the coast of eastern New Guinea) decorated both utilitarian and ceremonial objects with elegant incised patterns. Usually these wooden objects were red or deep black in color. The engraved designs, depicting stylized frigate birds or human faces and figures, are infilled with lime. Drums, dance wands, shields, and canoe ornaments, together with spells and incantations, were part of the hereditary wealth of local Massim chiefs.
Object facts
- Title: Club
- Date: before 1930
- Culture: Melanesia, New Guinea, Massim Area, Trobriand Islands, 20th century
- Type: Sculpture
- Technique: wood
- Dimensions: Overall: 143.5 cm (56 1/2 in.)
- Collection: Oceanic Art
- Department: Oceania
- Accession number: 1971.155
Collection credit
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Munro
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