Samoa? Tonga? Clubs.

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Originally Posted by M ELEY

Very nice clubs with rich patina. Not my area of expertise, but I used to own one exactly like these and according to Edge-Partington's Ethnographic guide, they are from Malaita in the Solomans. Mine had an old museum acquision number on it. I had to sell it to pay bills- . I miss it very much.

Thanks for the information.

Which type did you have the pointed "pommel" type, or the squared off type?

I suspect they, or at least the darker of the two, we're bring-backs from the WWII era.

The nature of the surface and it's patina I feel makes the lighter of the two older.