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club
Club may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''Club'' (magazine)
* Club, a '' Yie Ar Kung-Fu'' character
* Clubs (suit), a suit of playing cards
* Club music
* "Club", by Kelsea Ballerini from the album ''kelsea''
Brands and enterprises ...
from Fiji.
Uses in Fiji
Usually cut from a hardwood type ofiron wood
Ironwood is a common name for many woods or plants that have a reputation for hardness, or specifically a wood density that is heavier than water (approximately 1000 kg/m3, or 62 pounds per cubic foot), although usage of the name ironwood in E ...
, it has a broad blade and was used by chiefs or priests to deflect arrows during war.Susan Cochrane, Max Quanchi, ''Hunting the Collectors : Pacific Collections in Australian Museums'', 2014, p. 4/ref>
Bibliography
* Fergus Clunie, ''Fijian Weapons & Warfare'', 2003. * Jean-Edouard Carlier, ''Archipels Fidji - Tonga - Samoa: La Polynésie Occidentale'', Voyageurs & curieux, 2005. * Rod Ewins, ''Fijian Artefacts: The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collection'',Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) is a museum located in Hobart, Tasmania. The museum was established in 1846, by the Royal Society of Tasmania, the oldest Royal Society outside England.
The TMAG receives 400,000 visitors annually.
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, 1982.
References
See also
*Totokia
The ''totokia'' (also pineapple club or beaked battle hammer) is a type of club or battlehammer from Fiji.Eric Kjellgren, How to Read Oceanic Art' (Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2014), p. 153.
The ''totokia'' was called t ...
* Gata
Davionte Ganter, known professionally as GaTa, is an American rapper and actor known for his role in the FXX TV series ''Dave'', as well as for being the hype man for rapper Lil Dicky throughout his career as well as on the show.
Early life an ...
* Sali
* Ula
* Bulibuli
Throwing clubs
Clubs (weapon)
Primitive weapons
Ritual weapons
Fijian culture
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