Massive club "sali" with knob-like design

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Description

heavy wood,

This club commonly referred to as a “gunstock” club by Westerners because of its supposed resemblance to a musket. The shape, however, is said to be based on the clawed sali-flower of a species of banana-like plant.

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Comparing literature

Kaeppler, Adrienne, Polynesia, Honolulu 2010, p. 237, ill. 111

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