Club patu
paraoa
Place: New Zealand
Category: War
whalebone, plant fibre, New Zealand, l. 46 cm, w. 8 cm, Inv. Oz 276
Humphrey No. 338 (?): ‘a patapatoo or War Bludgeon of New Zealand, made of the bone of some large Marine animal.’
Flat whalebone club, hole drilled through at the grip end with twisted cord drawn through it. Markus Schindlbeck