Club
Totokia, sometimes referred to as pandanus clubs, have spherical heads with upwards of a hundred radiating conical spikes around a long, tapering teardrop-ended spike. They seem to have developed from the lighter and less elaborate ‘i tuki’ club type around the turn of the 19th century with the importation of steel carving tools. These clubs were intended to smash in the opponents skull, and were often buried with men in order to overcome the giants who guarded the pathway to Burotu, the afterlife.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 33/1953/5l
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Arms and armour
- Collection Area Region
- POLYN
- Material
- wood
- Common Name
- club
- Simple Name
- club
- Production Country
- Fiji
- Production Year High
- 1953
