Cali (weapon)
| Cali (weapon) | |
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| Weapon type: | Club |
| Designations: | Cali |
| Use: | weapon |
| Region of origin / author: |
Fiji , ethnic groups from the Fiji Islands |
| Distribution: | Fiji Islands |
| Overall length: | about 84 cm to about 97 cm |
| Handle: | Wood |
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The cali is a club from the Fiji Islands.
description
The cali is made of hardwood. The shaft is round and bent at the end of the impact head. The head is split at the end. The branching end piece is smaller than the other end piece (see pictures under web links). The lower end of the shaft is worked out in the shape of a phallus . The Cali is used by ethnic groups in the Fiji Islands.
Individual evidence
- ↑ George Cameron Stone , Donald J. LaRocca, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: in All Countries and in All Times , Courier Dover Publications, 1999, page 184, ISBN 978-0-486-40726 -5
literature
- Paul Stover Wingert, MH De Young Memorial Museum, Art of the South Pacific Islands: a loan exhibition, September 18 - November 15 , 1953, Verlag MH De Young Memorial Museum, 1953
- Diagram Group, The New Weapons of the World Encyclopedia: An International Encyclopedia from 5000 BC to the 21st Century , St. Martin's Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-312-36832-6
- Nelson Doubleday, C. Earl Cooley, Encyclopedia of world travel , Volume 4, Doubleday Publisher, 1961
Web links
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