Club "patu" ·  Nouvelle-Zélande, Maori · ID: 3034788

Description

barrel-shaped blade of green nephrite stone, polished, lense-shaped in diameter, edgeless rims aside, circular drilling, min. dam.;
such clubs were considered the most prestigious of chiefly weapons. They were used like a sword with the main attacking stroke being a thrust with the tip after a series of parries and counterparries.

Littérature comparée

Mead, Sidney Moko (ed.), Te Maori, New York 1984, p. 225, ill. 149