Weapon; Club

LIV.2010.132.7

Information

A tewhatewha (long club/fighting staff) with a pointed tip at one end of the shaft and an axe-shaped blade at the other. The blade weight has a straight top edge and a hole through. It has an unusual shape, with part of outer, normally convex curved edge concave (the blade weight may have been broken and smoothed off). No carved decoration.