Post #200898 by Basement Kahuna on Wed, Nov 30, 2005 4:56 PM

Here it is...the completed Maori Taiaha long club...Green Abalone (Pau) inlays, feather hackle, aging and all. This club is basically a far extended Patu, and was the primary war club for a Maori warrior. They built an entire discipline around this club (see Whale Rider for a good depiction). The Teko end is often mistaken for a spear point, but was blunt..it was in fact an "on board computer"! The common doctrine was that the Teko head conveyed information to the warrior up through the handle, as if the ghosts of ancestors were in fact controlling the club in combat! I tried mine and for some reason it kept whacking me on the skull...hmmm...:)

[ Edited by: Basement Kahuna 2005-12-01 09:06 ]