Club
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- Type
- Clubs
- Place
- Queensland, Australia
- Materials
- Pigment, Wood
- Collection
- Professor Henry and Luise Krips collection
- Accession number
- 1993.0047.0070
Description
A paddle shaped wooden club, pigmented with horizontal bands and chevron markings and with a single band carved 15mm from the proximal end.
About the collection
The Professor Henry and Luise Krips collection comprises 260 Aboriginal artefacts including weapons, ornaments and stone implements. The Professor Henry and Luise Krips collection comprises a wide range of artefacts from all mainland states and the Northern Territory. Henry Krips was a symphony orchestra director and his work often took him and his wife Luise to Europe and Great Britain where they would purchase artefacts for their collection and bring them back to Australia.
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