Post #688751 by komohana on Mon, Aug 5, 2013 2:31 AM

Hunting has been good here lately.

I've had Mia pose in the first photo to show scale.

The bloke I bought it off had absolutely no information about it, other than buying
it at an antiques auction. He and his wife are moving to Spain and sold it to me for
a ridiculously cheap price. If you happen to read this Jet, thanks a million.

The PNG drum was advertised alone with a smaller one, but when I got to the womans' house
there was a small pile of other PNG stuff with it and she practically gave me the whole lot for
about the price of a cheap bottle of rum.

No information on the Maori paddle either, as the bloke was at work and his wife knew less about it than I did.

These nine glass floats came to me from a woman who'd lived in PNG while her husband was
stationed there with the Royal Australian Navy. She had personally collected these floats
off various beaches there during the 1970s. An adorable old bird, a little rough around the
edges and completely down to earth, exactly how you'd expect an old school navy wife to be.

This club was given to me by an uncle who'd found it on the rubbish tip of a coastal town north of Perth.
It had a crude half lap joint about 18 inches from the end of the haft. Not sure whether this was to render
the weapon useless, to shorten it or to repair a damaged section but either way I took it apart, cleaned up
the joint and glued it back together with epoxy. It was originally painted black and although it looked good
in it's natural timber, I've again painted it to completely hide the joint.

[ Edited by: komohana 2013-08-05 21:24 ]