Dance club
Bonito shaped dance club.
This fish-shaped dance club embodies four strong masculine qualities through its distinctive and symbolic form. The design incorporates a bonito (tuna), a fishing boat, abstract human faces and a frigatebird, all are symbols of successful fishing, warfare, male economic success and chieflyness. The clubs were used in communal male stamping dances accompanied by a light and quiet bamboo slit drum.
This fish-shaped dance club embodies four strong masculine qualities through its distinctive and symbolic form. The design incorporates a bonito (tuna), a fishing boat, abstract human faces and a frigatebird, all are symbols of successful fishing, warfare, male economic success and chieflyness. The clubs were used in communal male stamping dances accompanied by a light and quiet bamboo slit drum.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 16/1996/94
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Religion and magic
- Collection Area Region
- MELAN
- Common Name
- dance club
- Simple Name
- club
- Production County
- Santa Cruz Islands
- Production Country
- Solomon Islands
- Production Year High
- 1996
