Dance club
Small qauata curved dance club. Qauata or mada are dance clubs with a distinctive square ended blade and light form. They are were used at seasonal festivals in dances celebrating either bonito fishing or warfare. In dances representing bonito fishing, its curve is used to enact the movement of the prow of a canoe. Likely acquired by John Gould Veitch on the HMS Curacoa in 1865.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- E1911
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Religion and magic
- Collection Area Region
- MELAN
- Material
- woodwoodwood
- Common Name
- dance club
- Simple Name
- accessory
- Production Town
- San Cristobal (Makira)
- Production Country
- Solomon Islands
- Production Date
- 19th century
- Production Year High
- 1880
