Tufunga Tongi 'akau : Tongan club carvers & their arts

This is a material ethnohistory of 'akau - war-clubs from the Kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific. It combines ethnohistoric reconstruction with stylistic analysis and ethnographic analogy, in order to provide a representation of the use, manufacture and variation of these complex woodcarving...

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Main Author: Mills, Andy N.
Published: University of East Anglia 2007
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.446142