Qauata
| Qauata | |
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| Information | |
| Weapon type: | Club |
| Designations: | Qauata, Parrying Club |
| Use: | weapon |
| Region of origin / author: |
Solomon Islands , ethnic groups of the Solomon Islands |
| Distribution: | Solomon Islands |
| Overall length: | about 114 cm |
| Blade length: | about 51 cm |
| Blade width: | about 13 cm |
| Handle: | Wood |
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The Qauata is a parrying club of the inhabitants of the Solomon Islands .
description
The Qauata is made entirely of wood. The shaft is straight and round. The face is flat and curved. The side edges are flattened and worked sharply. The face tapers at the tip. The lower end of the shaft is carved into a stitch point, similar to a spear point. It is used by the inhabitants of the Solomon Islands as a striking weapon and as a defensive weapon (parry).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Purissima Benitez-Johannot, Jean Paul Barbier, Alain-Michel Boyer, Barbier-Mueller Museum, Boucliers d'Afrique, d'Asie du Sud-Est et d'Océanie du musée Barbier-Mueller, publisher Adam Biro, 1998, page 228 , ISBN 978-2-87660-226-7
literature
- Henry Swainson Cowper : The Art of Attack. Being a Study in the Development of Weapons and Appliances of Offence, from the Earliest Times to the Age of Gunpowder , 1906
- 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
- 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, ISBN 978-0-486-40726-5
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