A Culacula is a paddle war
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.
![Culacula, war club from Fiji - Clava - Fiji MN 01](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Culacula%2C_war_club_from_Fiji_-_Clava_-_Fiji_MN_01.jpg)
Uses in Fiji
Usually cut from a hardwood type of
iron 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]
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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.
...
, 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
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Early life an ...
* Sali
* Ula
* Bulibuli
Throwing clubs
Clubs (weapon)
Primitive weapons
Ritual weapons
Fijian culture
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