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Description: | Deflector club, from Solomon Islands, with a large boomerang shaped blade at the end of a cylindrical handle which terminates in a long conical pommel. Weapons such as this were used by the attendants of warriors to parry clubs and arrows. Dark wood.
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no hmos22 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | clubs (weapons: bludgeon) wood War- and Peace-making | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-46457 | Go to resource |
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