Slender paddle club of ironwood (Mills Type A2) engraved in it entirety with a complex scheme of staggered chequers of zig zag lines on one face and a falling spiral that doubles back on itself at the waist on the other face. The club has six eyes on each face at its widest point and the piping of the falling spiral is ornamented with head motifs down the central axis of the club.
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