Club
Biconical club with discoidal pommel.
Erromango clubs have distinctive flattened discoidal pommels with a standardised pattern of four radiating leaves. Clubs like this were used as part of a complex and sophisticated martial art which has largely fallen into obscurity. They were wielded both one-handed and two-handed for offense and defense.
Erromango clubs have distinctive flattened discoidal pommels with a standardised pattern of four radiating leaves. Clubs like this were used as part of a complex and sophisticated martial art which has largely fallen into obscurity. They were wielded both one-handed and two-handed for offense and defense.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 238/1914
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Arms and armour
- Collection Area Region
- MELAN
- Material
- hardwood
- Common Name
- club
- Simple Name
- weapon
- Production County
- Erromango
- Production Country
- Vanuatu
- Production Year Low
- 1897
- Production Year High
- 1914
