Club

Item number Nb3.1350 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Description

One piece of red brown wood, all adze marks apparent; roughly cut and shaped. Butt end shaped into blunt pointed knob. Sides of knob taper quickly into shaft which swells halfway up its length then tapers just below club end. Cylindrical club is longer than wide, flares quickly from shaft into cylinder shape and finishes off in a blunt point.

History Of Use

Club for killing fish. Used at fish weir or trap or carried in the canoe. Club's range from simple, bulbous-ended truncheons to highly decorated and three-dimensionally carved clubs. The artistic works were considered the means to express respect for the fish whose death it caused.