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>Costume Studies
>>1846 Fijian koroi
>>>clubs
>>>>sali
Subjectkoroi 'killer'
Culture: Fijian
Setting: tribal warfare, Fiji late 18th-mid 19thc
Objectsali flower / gunstock club






* Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology > Pacific Islands Hall
"Club  wood  Fiji Islands
Although commonly called a 'gunstock club', the form of this club is actually based on the sali flower of a plant in the banana family.  Some clubs were used for dancing only, others for fighting or prestige display.  Each type of Fijian club was designed to inflict a certain type of wound.  The shape of this club was meant to cut through and snap bone."  ...







* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Oceania


Museo de América > El Conocimiento de América *
"Maza 'sali-sali'
(Melanesia)"








* Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology > Pacific Islands Hall
"Club  wood
Fiji Islands" ...





​> event photos



​* Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology > Arts of War


Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology > Arts of War *