Subject: koroi 'killer'
Culture: Fijian
Setting: tribal warfare, Fiji late 18th-mid 19thc
Object: sali flower / gunstock club
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology > Pacific Islands Hall *
"Club wood Fiji Islands Although commonly called a 'gunstock club', the form of this club is actually based on the sali flower of a plant in the banana family. Some clubs were used for dancing only, others for fighting or prestige display. Each type of Fijian club was designed to inflict a certain type of wound. The shape of this club was meant to cut through and snap bone." ...
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology > Pacific Islands Hall *
"Club wood Fiji Islands" ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art > Oceania *
* Museo de América > El Conocimiento de América
"Maza 'sali-sali'
(Melanesia)"
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* Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology > Arts of War
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology > Arts of War *
