Marpangye [club]

Hockey stick shaped club, with pine cone shaped knob on the end of the handle. Used in hand to hand combat. From south-east, South Australia or west Victoria. Collected by Sir John Franklin or his wife Jane, while he was governor of Van Diemens Land (Tasmania).

Object Details

ID: AAA3773
Collection: World Cultures
Type: Marpangye [club]
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 1837-1843
Credit: On loan to the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, from the Hopton Hall Derbyshire Collection. Kindly lent by the Gell Muniment Trustees
Measurements: Overall: 665 x 195 mm