Dance club
Small qauata curved dance club. Qauata or mada are dance clubs with a distinctive square ended blade and light form. They are were used at seasonal festivals in dances celebrating either bonito fishing or warfare. In dances it represents bonito fishing, its curve is used to enact the movement of the prow of a canoe.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 33/1953/17
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Religion and magic
- Collection Area Region
- MELAN
- Material
- wood
- Common Name
- dance club
- Simple Name
- dance club
- Production Town
- Makira
- Production Country
- Solomon Islands
- Production Year High
- pre 1953
