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Description: | Club with arm sling. New Hebrides
Club, from Vanuatu, with cylindrical shaft which flares into a tongue shaped blade at the head which is modelled on both faces with an asymmetrical V shaped ridge. The butt flares outwards and has a conical lug protruding from it. A stout flat rope of coconut fibre for an arm sling, is looped three times around the shaft and ends in an elaborate tassel. Dark wood.
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 5.327 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | clubs (weapons: bludgeon) wood coconut fibre War- and Peace-making | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-61151 | Go to resource |
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