Club from the Philippines

Nonoy Tan · 25th August 2007, 03:49 PM

I thought of sharing this rare find. It is a club from the Bogkalut - a once fierce group of people from Northern Luzon, neighbors of the llongot.

Has anybody else seen anything similar?

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Matt Splatt · 29th August 2007, 02:50 AM

Whats the deal with spikes? Are they thorns grown from the wood? Nice club by the way.

VANDOO · 29th August 2007, 03:02 AM

OOPS

Andrew · 30th August 2007, 05:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nonoy Tan

I thought of sharing this rare find. It is a club from the Bogkalut - a once fierce group of people from Northern Luzon, neighbors of the llongot.

Has anybody else seen anything similar?

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Welcome, Nonoy Tan. You sound quite confident this is from a specific group, did you collect this item from them, or did it come with some other provenance?

Incidentally, would you happen to be an underwater photographer?

Tim Simmons · 30th August 2007, 09:36 AM

Except for the top two which are, 800g and 600g. The rest are under 500g. The must deadly and efficient to my mind is the one with the off set ball and curved halft which is only 350g.

Fishing in a small canoe and you hoick on board a 5-6ft fish one had better stop it flapping about. The same tool might stop a 5-6ft man flapping about even if people have heavier bones.

CourseEight · 30th August 2007, 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Tim Simmons

Except for the top two which are, 800g and 600g. The rest are under 500g. The must deadly and efficient to my mind is the one with the off set ball and curved halft which is only 350g.

Wow, I had no idea they were so light. I really have to get one of those...

kronckew · 31st August 2007, 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Tim Simmons

Fishing in a small canoe and you hoick on board a 5-6ft fish one had better stop it flapping about. The same tool might stop a 5-6ft man flapping about even if people have heavier bones.

caution, slight thread veer ahead.

anecdote: reminds me of a patrol we went on in the USCG Cutter i was assigned to in kodiak, we stopped overnight one sat. in a small bay in the aleutians for some respite from the weather, one of the crew went fishing, caught a fluke (flatfish similar to a plaice or flounder) that was about 6ft. & a few hundred pounds. it took him a few hrs. to get it to the surface, the captain allowed the ready boat to be lowered to pick it up, but it was still quite mobile & the coxswain was a bit leery of being in the boat with it, so he thwacked it a few times with an oar. no effect. they wound up getting a .44 magnum out of the armoury and shot it in the head 6 times. it became a bit more cooperative then & it was with effort hauled into the boat and eventually on board & down to the galley. the crew (about 60) ate on it for quite a few days. tasty. did not have any knobkerries on board, or i'm sure we would have tried one.

we now return you to the regularly scheduled program.

Nonoy Tan · 31st August 2007, 01:48 PM

The club is 70 cm in lenght and 0.3 kilograms in weight. Here are more pics.

Based on documentation, this specimen was collected from Bilanse Village, Nueva Vizcaya (in the 1890's ???). Further research confirmed that the village was predominantly Bogkalut and Ilongot. The club also came with spears that were of the early-type of Ilongot.

CourseEight · 31st August 2007, 02:28 PM

Definitely NOT floss silk; the cross section looks nothing like that, though the weight is about right. I can't find any cross sectional pictures of rattan, but I think it looks something like that? Or some other kind of palm...

25th August 2007, 03:49 PM	#1
Nonoy Tan Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 293	Club from the Philippines I thought of sharing this rare find. It is a club from the Bogkalut - a once fierce group of people from Northern Luzon, neighbors of the llongot. Has anybody else seen anything similar? [IMG] Attached Images

31st August 2007, 01:48 PM	#8
Nonoy Tan Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 293	More specs The club is 70 cm in lenght and 0.3 kilograms in weight. Here are more pics. Based on documentation, this specimen was collected from Bilanse Village, Nueva Vizcaya (in the 1890's ???). Further research confirmed that the village was predominantly Bogkalut and Ilongot. The club also came with spears that were of the early-type of Ilongot. Attached Images

29th August 2007, 02:50 AM	#2
Matt Splatt Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 31	Whats the deal with spikes? Are they thorns grown from the wood? Nice club by the way.

29th August 2007, 03:02 AM	#3
VANDOO (deceased) Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: OKLAHOMA, USA Posts: 3,138	OOPS

30th August 2007, 09:36 AM	#5
Tim Simmons Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: What is still UK Posts: 5,807	Except for the top two which are, 800g and 600g. The rest are under 500g. The must deadly and efficient to my mind is the one with the off set ball and curved halft which is only 350g. Fishing in a small canoe and you hoick on board a 5-6ft fish one had better stop it flapping about. The same tool might stop a 5-6ft man flapping about even if people have heavier bones.

31st August 2007, 02:28 PM	#9
CourseEight Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Coral Springs, FL Posts: 222	Definitely NOT floss silk; the cross section looks nothing like that, though the weight is about right. I can't find any cross sectional pictures of rattan, but I think it looks something like that? Or some other kind of palm...