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patu tawaka and patuki: made from wood. Other styles of short-handled wooden clubs include the kotiate and wahaika . Less traditional is the rare patu pora , made from iron [ 3 ] and the hatchet or whaling harpoon heads ( pātītī ).
While the term mere was, and is, used in some regions to refer exclusively to clubs made from pounamu, [1] in other regions, mere was more broadly used to refer to patu of a similar shape and design made from hardwood (meremere, mere rakau), whalebone (patu paraoa), or stone (patu ōnewa) – in these areas, a mere made from greenstone was known as a mere pounamu or patu pounamu.
Articles relating to clubs, among the simplest of all weapons: short staffs or sticks, usually made of wood, wielded as weapons [1] since prehistory.There are several examples of blunt-force trauma caused by clubs in the past, including at the site of Nataruk in Turkana, Kenya, described as the scene of a prehistoric conflict between bands of hunter-gatherers 10,000 years ago. [2]
A patu is a generic term for a club or pounder used by the Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand. Patu may also refer to: Patu, genus of spiders in the family Symphytognathidae; Kalateh-ye Mir Hasan, village in Iran also known as Patu; Te Pātū, Māori tribe
Wahaika are short club-like weapons usually made of wood or whalebone and are used for thrusting and striking in close-quarter, hand-to-hand fighting. [1] Whalebone wahaika are called wahaika parāoa. [2] Wahaika translates to "mouth of the fish", [3] [4] in reference to the notch on one side which is used to catch an opponent's weapon.
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An assortment of club weapons from the Wujing Zongyao from left to right: flail, metal bat, double flail, truncheon, mace, barbed mace. A club (also known as a cudgel, baton, bludgeon, truncheon, cosh, nightstick, or impact weapon) is a short staff or stick, usually made of wood, wielded as a weapon or tool [1] since prehistory.
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