Name That War Club/Knife - Collecting Tiki

H hottiki Tiki Socialite Pittsburgh Pa. Joined: Jul 10, 2008 Posts: 430	H hottiki Posted posted on Sat, Mar 27, 2010 9:36 PM Unlike the Fijians and other Polynesians to the westward, who did great execution with their long war clubs, these natives used in fighting only the patoopatoo, or the meré, like that of the Maori, except that they were invariably made of wood. They possessed a long club, a little expanded and flattened at one end, and the other carved into a head with a double face with eyes made of obsidian and bone; but this was carried as a batôn of office before the chiefs and used only for that purpose.http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/ei/ei32.htm [ Edited by: hottiki 2010-03-27 21:46 ]

Unlike the Fijians and other Polynesians to the westward, who did great execution with their long war clubs, these natives used in fighting only the patoopatoo, or the meré, like that of the Maori, except that they were invariably made of wood. They possessed a long club, a little expanded and flattened at one end, and the other carved into a head with a double face with eyes made of obsidian and bone; but this was carried as a batôn of office before the chiefs and used only for that purpose.http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/ei/ei32.htm

[ Edited by: hottiki 2010-03-27 21:46 ]

Post #520451 by hottiki on Sat, Mar 27, 2010 9:36 PM