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Te Bakabota

human history
  • Common Name
    Armament T&E, Bludgeon
  • Other Name

    Fighting stick (English)

  • Description

    Te Bakabota. Barbed fighting stick. This weapon consists of a shaft carved from te kanni (coconut wood), cylindrical in shape, which is carved to a pointed apex at one end. Three wete (sting ray barbs) are attached to the pointed apex and securely fastened with lashing of darkly coloured te ira n atu (human hair) and an additional attachment of fringed baa ni kaina (pandanus leaf fibre). A short cord of te kora (coconut sennit) is wrapped around the base end of the bakabota.

    The weapon is brown in colour.

  • Place
    Beru/Gilbert Islands/Kiribati
  • Accession Number
    1936.295
  • Accession Date
    1936
  • Other Id

    24029 (ethnology)

    139 (Maude Collection)

  • Department

    Pacific

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  • Te Bakabota, 1936.295, 24029, 139, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 16 Nov 2018, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Te Bakabota, 1936.295, 24029, 139, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 16 Nov 2018, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Te Bakabota, 1936.295, 24029, 139, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 16 Nov 2018, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Te Bakabota, 1936.295, 24029, 139, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 16 Nov 2018, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Te Bakabota, 1936.295, 24029, 139, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 16 Nov 2018, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Te Bakabota, 1936.295, 24029, 139, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 16 Nov 2018, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Te Bakabota, 1936.295, 24029, 139, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 16 Nov 2018, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Te Bakabota, 1936.295, 24029, 139, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 16 Nov 2018, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Te Bakabota, 1936.295, 24029, 139, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 16 Nov 2018, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Te Bakabota, 1936.295, 24029, 139, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 16 Nov 2018, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Te Bakabota, 1936.295, 24029, 139, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 16 Nov 2018, Cultural Permissions Apply

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