Culacula

A Culacula is a paddle war club from Fiji.

Culacula in the Museu Nacional da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Uses in Fiji

Usually cut from a hardwood type of iron wood, it has a broad blade and was used by chiefs or priests to deflects arrows during war.[1][2]

Bibliography
  • Fergus Clunie, Fijian Weapons & Warfare, 2003.
  • Jean-Edouard Carlier, Archipels Fidji - Tonga - Samoa: La PolynĂ©sie Occidentale, Voyageurs & curieux, 2005.
  • Rod Ewins, Fijian Artefacts: The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collection, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1982.

References
  1. Adrienne Lois Kaeppler, From the Stone Age to the Space Age in 200 Years, Tongan National Museum, 1999, p. 28-67
  2. Susan Cochrane, Max Quanchi, Hunting the Collectors : Pacific Collections in Australian Museums, 2014, p. 48

See also


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