Nail club

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Description

hardwood, blackish brown patina, round shaft, getting stronger to the top, club head with inserted iron nails (horseshoe nails ?) arranged in seven horizontal rows (partly missing), slightly dam., cracks;
according to the owner the club arrived around 1890 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
early and rare club form !

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Comparing literature

Carrick, John (ed.), Art of the first Australians, Camperdown o.J., p. 20, ill. 223 Davies, S. M., Collected - 150 Years of Aboriginal Art and Artifacts at the Macleay Museum, Sidney 2002, p. 78, ill. 90

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