Club
Kite shaped club (supe or subi) with inlaid shell and black putty in the form of bonito with fibre handle binding. These clubs have elements of both New Guinea and Western Polynesian clubs and are characteristic of Malaita. The addition of pearlshell inlay is a recent practice mainly to appeal to the export market.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 88/1938/5
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Arms and armour
- Collection Area Region
- MELAN
- Material
- woodmother-of-pearl shellcoconut fibre
- Common Name
- club
- Simple Name
- club
- Production Town
- Malaita; (San Cristobal from register but without supporting evidence)
- Production Country
- Solomon Islands
- Production Year High
- 1938
