Club, for ritual killing of pigs; pig is struck on head by club. Carved wood; long haft; club apparatus at top end rests at angle to haft; face carved on top of club; two pointed beak at top; 68 cm long, 27 cm wide.
Donor:
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund
Collection place:
Vanuatu
Culture or time period:
Melanesian
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Clubs (weapons)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama