A fascinating club.
I haven't seen any other club with lead shot embedded. I wonder if this was done deliberately by the Fijians (as they embedded teeth, bits of whale ivory etc.) or if a European has blasted it? Also the staining - just playing devil's advocate here, but how do we know it is blood ?
As an aside, one Totokia question has had me puzzled for years. In the film Carry on up the Jungle a hostile tribe (I can't remember the name of the tribe) appears, and they are all carrying totokias. Which of course offends my sense of pedantry, since the film is supposed to be set in Africa! I sometimes wonder where they got them from - and if there is a heap of them still in a corner of the film studios.
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