Club
New Caledonia mushroom headed club. These clubs offer a more practical fighting tool than the bird headed clubs, and show more connection with other club carving traditions of Melanesia. They have a much wider diversification in the Pacific, with similar clubs being produced in Vanuatu and Fiji/Tonga. They have a distinctly phallic appearance and are directly associated with the owner’s virility.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 33/1953/43
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Arms and armour
- Collection Area Region
- MELAN
- Material
- wood
- Common Name
- club
- Simple Name
- club
- Production County
- New Caledonia
- Production Country
- New Caledonia (Special Collectivity of France)
- Production Year High
- 1953