Wooden paddle-shaped chief's club, or culacula, from Fiji, with serrated carving along the edges of the paddle and under the crossbar where the paddle meets the handle. The base of the handle has incised carvings. This culacula would have been used in hand-to-hand combat as both a shield and club.
clubs (weapons)
wood (plant material)
Club
Original To Stephen Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
E47,155
Unknown
Pacific Island Group
12 (W) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.3600
Volume 66, No 4
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