Club
Double crescent anthropomorphic bladed club. This club type is found throughout Vanuatu but particularly on Ambrym and Malekula. It was attached to a shoulder strap to be worn by the side, but could be easily removed making it ready for use at a moment’s notice. The highly abstracted nasal projections show its intention to depict a human face.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- E1910
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Arms and armour
- Collection Area Region
- MELAN
- Material
- hardwoodplaited fibre string
- Common Name
- club
- Simple Name
- weapon
- Production County
- Efate/Vate (Sandwich Island)
- Production Country
- Vanuatu
- Production Year High
- 1880