I snaffled this last weekend. I show it with a Vanuatu club just to give you an idea of how skullsplittingjawbrakingbonesmashingly!!!! nice it is.
I have found amongest other information from "The Art of Kula" Shirley F Campell, an Aussie. That a great deal of wood artifacts were made and traded through out the Massim area. There was a large centre of manufacture at Boitalu in the Kuboma district. In the Trobriand Islands there are two types of wood carver the "tokabitam" who carved with magic and "tokataraki" who did not. The Kuboma and other tokatarati carved utilitarian items like bowls, plates, combs, clubs. They were looked down on by the tokabitam.
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