Pouwhenua
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| Weapon type: | Club |
| Designations: | Pouwhenua |
| Use: | weapon |
| Region of origin / author: |
New Zealand , Maori people |
| Distribution: | New Zealand |
| Overall length: | about 124 cm |
| Weight: | about 800 gr. |
| Handle: | Wood |
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The pouwhenua is a club from New Zealand.
description
The Pouwhenua has a straight, wooden shaft. The upper impact head is shaped like a paddle and sharply ground at the edges. At the opposite end there is a point that serves as a stabbing weapon. Grooves are carved out at the transition from the tip to the shaft. The shaft becomes wider from the tip to the impact head. It is almost identical to the Taiaha (or Hani). In contrast to the Taiaha, the Pouwhenua is always pointed at one end. Instead, the Taiaha has a carved, face-like end piece at the end. The Pouhwenua is used by the Maori people from New Zealand.
Individual evidence
- ↑ George Cameron Stone: A glossary of the construction, decoration and use of arms and armor in all countries and in all times . Forword by Donald J. LaRocca. Dover Publications, Mineola, New York 1999, p. 514, ISBN 978-0-486-40726-5
literature
- Hilke Thode-Arora, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Tapa and Tiki: the Polynesia collection of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum , Volume 23 by Ethnologica (Cologne, Germany), Verlag Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, 2001, page 56, ISBN 978 -3-923158-37-9
- Makereti Papakura : The Old-Time Maori. Gollancz, London 1938, p. 319 and plate 22 ( e-text at NZETC ). Reprint: New Women's Press, Auckland, NZ 1986, ISBN 978-0-908652-11-2 .
- Wiremu Cooper, National Museum of New Zealand, Australian Museum, Taonga Maori: treasures of the New Zealand Maori people , Australian Museum, 1989, page 37, ISBN 978-0-7305-6206-1
Web links
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- Pouwhenua , In: The Journal of the Polynesian Society , 1947, Vol. 56, No. 1