✅ SOLVED wooden spearhead?

[Renold]

Hey all. I am new to this site sort of. I used to look at all this a few years back and I am getting back into detecting. Anyway a friend found this 40+ years ago in the woods and we are curios what it is. He has hung onto it all these years because he feels it is worth something. Thanks in advance and HH.
Oh yea, it is approx. 18 inches long and the "blade" part is about an inch thick. It seems to thick to be a spear head.

 

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[tamrock]

Looks African or maybe Australian aboriginal? Doesn't look like it was ever exposed to the outside elements for a long time.

 

[surf]

I'd like to see more photos, with more photo real estate devoted to the object in question, maybe taken in natural light. Accurate measurements might be good, too.

It looks Oceanic to me, I've seen war clubs, and canoe paddles with this diamond style blade. Perhaps a model, or a ceremonial piece gathered from a passing Samoan...

Journal of the Polynesian Society: Notes On Oceanian War Clubs, By B. A. De Vere Bailey, P 3-17



"Circa 1900s Samoan
Ware (Dance) Club With
Shell Inlaid Cross…
-18 5/8" long x 3 1/8" in diameter." Western Collectibles

 

[Renold]

Thanks Surf. That seem to be what it is. Looks as it may have been used for dance rituals. I am going to say solved.

 

[surf]

Hey Renold,

You're welcome, but it begs the question if this "woods" was in Summerville, and what kind of Samoan, or Tongan presence there was…

British Museum - Image gallery: Samoan Chief

Ethnographic Arms & Armour - MOST DESIRED OCEANIC WAR CLUBS 4: SAMOA

 

[Renold]

Yea that was my thoughts also. There is no telling but i am going to ask a lot more questions about this.