Vunikau
| Vunikau | |
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| Weapon type: | Club |
| Designations: | Vunikau, Rootstock Club |
| Use: | weapon |
| Region of origin / author: |
Fiji , ethnic groups from the Fiji Islands |
| Distribution: | Fiji Islands |
| Overall length: | about 112 cm |
| Handle: | Wood |
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The Vunikau , also called Waka , Rootstock Club , is a club from the Fiji Islands .
description
The Vunikau is made entirely of wood. The shaft and the impact head consist of one piece. The club is carved from a rhizome . The roots are only roughly cut off. The entire club is sanded and polished. This creates the protruding wooden knots that serve to improve the impact. The Vunikau 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
See also
literature
- Hilke Thode-Arora: Tapa and Tiki: the Polynesia collection of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum. (= Ethnologica. Volume 23). Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne 2001, ISBN 978-3-923158-37-9 , page 301.
- Fergus Clunie : Fijian weapons & warfare. Fiji Museum 2003, ISBN 978-982-208-006-3 .
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), Eric Kjellgren: Oceania. Art of the Pacific Islands in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-300-12030-1 .
- Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Rod Ewins: Fijian artefacts. The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collection. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery 1982, pp. 32, 33, 35.
Web links
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