NEW CALEDONIA CLUB FORMS

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NEW CALEDONIA IS A GROUP OF ISLANDS LOCATED NEAR MODERN VANUATU ( NEW HEBRIDES). THE ISLANDERS ARE REFEREED TO As KANAKA. THE MOST COMMON TYPES OF CLUBS ARE THE MUSHROOM OR PHALLIC SHAPED CLUBS AND THE BIRD HEAD FORMS. IN MANY OF THESE ISLAND GROUPS THE PRACTICE OF BLACKBIRDING OCCURRED. RAIDS WERE MADE AND PEOPLE CAPTURED AND TAKEN AS SLAVE LABOR TO OTHER ISLANDS BY THE SO CALLED CIVILIZED NATIONS. THIS LED TO A RADICAL CHANGE IN THE ISLAND SOCIETIES DUE TO THE MIXING OF CULTURES THRU-OUT THE REGION AND THE INTRODUCTION OF MISSIONARY BROUGHT CHANGE AS WELL.
#1. MAP SHOWING NEW CALEDONIA AND VANUATU (NEW HEBRIDES)
#2. PICTURE OF NEW CALEDONIA ARTIFACTS 1910.
#3. KANAKA WARRIORS 1910
#4. PHALLIC OR MUSHROOM SHAPED CLUB
#5. PHALLIC OR MUSHROOM SHAPED CLUB
#6. THREE VARIATIONS OF THE PHALLIC OR MUSHROOM SHAPED CLUBS
#7. KING JACQUES AND QUEEN OF NEW CALEDONIA, WITH BIRD HEAD CLUB
#8. THREE WARRIORS SPEARS AND CLUBS
#9. TWO WARRIORS WITH WEAPONS
#10. TWO WARRIORS WITH SPEARS 1880
#11. NEW CALEDONIA POLICE FORCE 1878
#12. DRAWING OF WEAPONS AND UTENSELS NEW CALEDONIA