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Beaked 'pineapple' or 'pandanus' battlehammer, known as a totokia, from Fiji. Heavily carved head with pineapple-like extrusions ending with a pointed 'beak'. The club would have been used to inflict a deadly blow to the skull. Its design is said to be based on a bird's head.
clubs (weapons)
wood (plant material)
Club
Original To Stephen Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
E47,151
Unknown
Pacific Island Group
6 1/4 (W) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.3601
Volume 66, No. 4
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