The ula or i ula tavatava is a throwing war club from

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Usually cut from a hardwood type of iron wood, it has a round end made up of the root knot and is sometimes called "pineapple club" for his particular shape. It can be launched or used as a club.Henry Nottidge Moseley, ''Notes by a Naturalist on the "Challenger": Being an Account of Various observations'', Macmillan and Co, London, 1879, p.338 Some types of Ula have a smooth head.

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File:Fijian War Club in Museum of Methodism.jpg, Ula with pineapple ball. File:Ula Fidji.png, Ula with round ball. File:Clubs, Fiji Islands, wood - Pacific collection - Peabody Museum, Harvard University - DSC05762.JPG, Ula collection.

Bibliography

* John Charles Edler, Terence Barrow, ''Art of Polynesia'', Hemmeter Publishing Corporation, 1990. * Jean-Edouard Carlier, ''Archipels Fidji - Tonga - Samoa: La Polynésie Occidentale'', Voyageurs & curieux, 2005. * Rod Ewins, ''Fijian Artefacts: The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collection'', Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1982.

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