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A Sali or Cali or Tebetebe is a 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
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from Fiji
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Uses in Fiji
Usually cut from a hardwood typeiron 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 is intended for war. It differs from the Gata
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by the width of its striking head. It is named Sali because of its resemblance to the clawed flower of the plant of the same name (Sali) of the genus Musa of the banana family.Anthony JP Meyer, ''Art océanien'', Könemann, 1995, p. 473
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 ...
* Ula
* Gata
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* Culacula
A Culacula is a paddle war club from Fiji.
Uses in Fiji
Usually cut from a hardwood type of iron wood, it has a broad blade and was used by chiefs or priests to deflect arrows during war.Susan Cochrane, Max Quanchi, ''Hunting the Collectors : P ...
* Bulibuli A bulibuli or vunikau bulibuli is a Fijian war club.
Uses
The ''bulibuli'' has a straight and fair long handle (difference with a '' Ula Bulibuli'') and a rounded percussion head. At its end the striking head is rounded and provided with round ...
References
Bibliography
* John Charles Edler, Terence Barrow, ''Art of Polynesia'', Hemmeter Publishing Corporation, 1990. * 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.
* ''Bulletin of the Fiji Museum'', Numeros 1–2, Fiji Museum, 1973.
* Fergus Clunie,''Fijian weapons and warfare.'' Fiji Museum
The Fiji Museum is a museum in Suva, Fiji located in the capital city's botanical gardens, Thurston Gardens.
Background
The museum is a statutory body and is under the administration of the Fiji Museum Act and the Preservation of Objects of Ar ...
2003, .
Clubs (weapon)
Primitive weapons
Ritual weapons
Fijian culture
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