The Ula or I Ula Tavatava[1] is a throwing war club from Fiji.
Uses in Fiji
editUsually cut from a hardwood type of iron wood, it has a round end made up of the root knot[2] and is sometimes called "pineapple club" for his particular shape.[3] It can be launched or used as a club.[4] Some types of Ula have a smooth head.
Gallery
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Ula with pineapple ball. -
Ula with round ball. -
Ula collection.
Bibliography
edit- John Charles Edler, Terence Barrow, Art of Polynesia, Hemmeter Publishing Corporation, 1990.
- Jean-Edouard Carlier, Archipels Fidji - Tonga - Samoa: La Polynésie Occidentale, Voyageurs & curieux, 2005.
- Rod Ewins, Fijian Artefacts: The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collection, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1982.
References
edit- ^ Anthony J. P. Meyer, Armes et armements de l'Océanie: une exposition, 1989, Galerie Meyer, p.30
- ^ Fergus Clunie, Fijian Weapons & Warfare, 2003, p. 136-7 and 142
- ^ Susan Cochrane, Max Quanchi, Hunting the Collectors: Pacific Collections in Australian Museums, Art … Oxford Scholars Publishing, page 61-62
- ^ Henry Nottidge Moseley, Notes by a Naturalist on the "Challenger": Being an Account of Various observations, Macmillan and Co, London, 1879, p.338
See also
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