Club
Alafolo parrying club.
This club type comes from Malaita. The purpose of the nasal projections was to catch and deflect barbed spears, but they also create an anthropomorphic form.
This club type comes from Malaita. The purpose of the nasal projections was to catch and deflect barbed spears, but they also create an anthropomorphic form.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 38/1923/8
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Arms and armour
- Collection Area Region
- MELAN
- Material
- hardwood
- Common Name
- club
- Simple Name
- weapon
- Production Town
- Malaita
- Production Country
- Solomon Islands
- Production Date
- 19th century
- Production Year High
- pre 1923