Club

This is a fa’a lautaliga fan-shaped club; lautaliga means ‘ear-bladed’. A short, one-handed spatulate paddle club developed from the Tongan tu’i and Fijian dui.

Object Summary

Accession Loan No.
3/1973/3
Category
Ethnography
Collection Class
Arms and armour
Collection Area Region
POLYN
Material
wood
Common Name
club
Simple Name
weapon
Production Country
Samoa, Independent State of
Production Year Low
1850
Production Year High
1890

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fan-shaped club