Totokia
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| Weapon type: | Club |
| Designations: | Totokia, Pineapple Club, Beaked Battle Hammer |
| Use: | weapon |
| Region of origin / author: |
Fiji , ethnic groups from the Fiji Islands |
| Distribution: | Fiji Islands |
| Overall length: | about 100 cm |
| Handle: | Wood |
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The Totokia , also Pineapple Club (English for pineapple club ), Beaked Battle Hammer (English for beaked war hammer ) is a war club from the Fiji islands.
description
The totokia is made of hardwood. The shaft is round and bent at the end of the impact head. The impact head is thicker than the shaft and carved into a round, notched ball with a pointed spike. The English name "Pineapple Club" comes from the pattern of the hammer head.
The Totokia is available in different sizes and lengths. It is used by residents throughout the archipelago.
literature
- Fergus Clunie : Fijian weapons and warfare. With drawings by Kolinio Moce. Fiji Museum, Suva 1977. (= Bulletin of the Fiji Museum . No. 2). Reprint: Fiji Museum, Suva 2003, ISBN 982-208-006-9 , pages 101, 114–115.
- Christraud M. Geary, Stéphanie Xatart: Material journeys. Collecting African and Oceanic art, 1945-2000. MFA Publications, Boston, Mass. 2007, ISBN 978-0-87846-715-0 . (Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2007).
- John Charles Edler, Terence Barrow: Art of Polynesia. Selection from the Hemmeter Collection of Polynesian Art. Hemmeter Publishing Corporation, Honolulu, Hawaii 1990, ISBN 1-877690-03-1 , pp. 8, 50.
- George Cameron Stone : A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration, and Use of Arms and Armor in All Countries and in All Times: Together with Some Closely Related Subjects. Southwork Press, Portland, Maine 1934. (Reprint: Dover Publications, Mineola, New York 1999, ISBN 0-486-40726-8 , limited preview on Google Book Search ).
- Georg Schifko: "On the reception of the Fijian totokia club in" Star Wars "and the efforts of Star Wars fans to create totokia imitations. In:" Anthropos "Vol. 110, No. 1 (2015), pp. 167– 175.
Web links
Commons : Cull from Fiji Islands - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Keulen - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Fijian warriors on the Green Dragon Society website , War Clubs section
Individual evidence
- ^ George Cameron Stone , A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration, and Use of Arms and Armor in All Countries and in All Times: Together with Some Closely Related Subjects. Southwork Press, Portland, Maine 1934, p. 184.