Cutlass-shaped club

Ceremonial Vestments (1914)
Robe and skirt: Silk satin with silk embroidery, compound silk satin with gold-wrapped weft, gold-wrapped thread, lining of blue silk tabby; Sash and belt: Silk compound satin with gold-wrapped weft and brass fittings; Hat: Silk satin, couched gold-w

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore. Murray Warner Collection of Oriental Art, MWCH 45:61–62, 45:91 a-b.

From the exhibition: Design by the Book: Chinese Ritual Objects and the Sanli Tu

Cutlass-shaped club
Trobriand Islands, Massim, Papua New Guinea
Wood, white pigment (lime)
28⅜ × 3½ × 1 in. (72 × 9 × 2.5 cm)

Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, 80.0/9903

From the exhibition:

Frontier Shores: Collection, Entanglement, and the Manufacture of Identity in Oceania

Louise Mae Murray Robert Dance Collection
Ruth Harriet Louise
Gelatin silver print

Ruth Harriet Louise (photographer), Mae Murray. Gelatin silver print. Robert Dance collection, 9912.