A roromaraugi is a parrying shield from San Cristobal Island in the Solomon Islands.
Uses It was used to deflect the enemy’s arrows and spears. It has a broad sickle-shaped headThe British Museum Yearbook, British Museum, 1979, p.218 that is separated by a well-marked central ridge with a spur on the back. The handle is often finished by an anthropomorphic sculpture and the whole is done in very hard wood.Deborah Waite, Art of the Solomon Islands, 1983, p.135 It was also used in war dances and measures more or less .Douglas Newton, Arts des mers du sud: Insulinde, Mélanésie, Polynésie, Musée Barbier-Mueller, 1998, p.270 It should not be confused with the qauata which does not have a spur and looks more like a leaf.Deborah Waite, Art of the Solomon Islands : The Conru Collection, 2008, p.113
References
Bibliography Purissima Benitez, Jean-Paul Barbier, Alain-Michel Boyer, Boucliers d’Afrique, d’Asie du Sud-Est et d’Océanie, Paris, Éditions Adam Biro, 1998.