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Wooden throwing club or 'i Ula tavatava, from Fiji. The round club head is deeply carved with flanges and grooves, and topped with a smaller, rounded knob. The short handle is decorated with incised triangle shapes along the bottom half and along the top with vertically-aligned rows of shallow pierced holes. There are many different types of 'I Ula, or throwing clubs, based on their shape. 'I Ula tavatava are characterized by their heavily grooved heads.
clubs (weapons)
wood (plant material)
carving and carving techniques
Club
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
E47,130
FD228
Unknown
Pacific Island Group
4 1/2 (W) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.956
Volume 66, No. 4
Fiji
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