Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd December 2013, 08:59 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
2nd December 2013, 01:38 AM
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Pacific or African Club for ID
I bought this club as an unknown. The seller claimed it was from the Pacific but couldn't remember which island. My thought were possibly PNG or Solomon. The wood is very heavy. It is entirely...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
31st October 2012, 02:33 AM
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The sennit-wrapped wooden bats are modeled on the three-sided Samoan war club called the "lapalapa," which are based on the stalk of coconut fronds. Bats are shaped to individual players' likings and...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th October 2012, 01:54 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th October 2012, 02:59 AM
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Replies: 22
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Nifo'Oti
I've done a bit of a study on photos that have been publicly available of Nifo'Oti (I've sighted eight early Nifo'Oti) and most of the early examples were manufactured by Joseph Beal & Sons in...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th October 2012, 02:36 AM
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Replies: 535
Views: 1,581,880
Photos from early Samoa
I have a particular interest in Samoa for a number of reasons.
1. Colonial conflict between the US, British and Germans in the Pacific brewed in Samoa.
2. New Zealand - (where I live) administered...
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