Club
Club with biconical head and discoidal pommel with floral motif engraved. 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 offence and defence.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 34/1986
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Arms and armour
- Collection Area Region
- MELAN
- Material
- hardwood
- Common Name
- club
- Simple Name
- weapon
- Production Town
- Erromango
- Production Country
- Vanuatu