Ula (weapon)

The ula or i ula tavatavaAnthony J. P. Meyer, Armes et armements de l'Océanie: une exposition, 1989, Galerie Meyer, p.30 is a throwing war club from Fiji.

Uses in Fiji Usually cut from a hardwood type of iron wood, it has a round end made up of the root knotFergus Clunie, Fijian Weapons & Warfare, 2003, p. 136-7 and 142 and is sometimes called "pineapple club" for his particular shape.Susan Cochrane, Max Quanchi, Hunting the Collectors: Pacific Collections in Australian Museums, Art … Oxford Scholars Publishing, page 61-62 It can be launched or used as a club.Henry Nottidge Moseley, Notes by a Naturalist on the "Challenger": Being an Account of Various observations, Macmillan and Co, London, 1879, p.338 Some types of Ula have a smooth head.

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See also Bulibuli Culacula Gata Sali Totokia

Bibliography 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.

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