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Description: | old small label which reads "Fiji" CULT Unknown pre-1800 Fijian Islands Melanesia This beaked hammer has bands of carved bosses about the 'pineapple' head with a tapered spike at the centre, and a plain cylindrical shaft ending in flanged butt. These prized hammers were "passed down through the generations of Fijian families" and favoured by chiefs who used them during "skirmish warfare in the thick bush, the heavy head driving the beak through the skull without a long warning swing likely to alert the target or catch the undergrowth" (source: Clunie, Fergus p.114-115 1977). Accession book reads "Presentation from the Andersonian Collection 1888". (Daniel Scott-Heaney, 2006) | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | WAR : AXE : DSH : WEAPON : PICK : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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