club (weapons: bludgeon)

Club of black wood with cylindrical shaft, the head is shaped into two abstracted facial structures surmounted with a cone of pyramidal studs radiating in several rows. Below the pointed triangular chins of these faces are three rows each of eight pyramidal studs.

Labels: two old display labels, blue with printed black text. One reads 'NEW HEBRIDES', and the other reads 'TONGA ISLANDS, / CENTRAL PACIFIC'.

fighting

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