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Description: | Glaive shaped deflector club, from Solomon Islands, with a long curved boomerang-shaped blade and a straight shaft terminating in a long conical pommel with a raised ring some distance from the end. These weapons were used by the attendants of warriors in duals to deflect arrows and club attacks. Made from dark wood.
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no nn1303 | 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-50814 | Go to resource |
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