Massue "bowai" ·  Îles Fidji · ID: 3051973

Description

hard wood,

These massive clubs made of extremely heavy wood were designed to smash skulls with one blow (“head-breaker” club). They were favored by Fijian and Tongan warriors.

From the earliest reports, Fiji was characterized as having endemic warfare, the causes of which ranged from raiding for sacrificial victims to disputes over chiefly precedence, women and land. Fiji also produced the greatest variety of weapons including clubs, of any Oceanic culture.

Littérature comparée

Kaeppler, Adrienne, Polynesia, Honolulu 2010, p. 240, ill. 125 ff.