Livestock castration implement. Club with head at acute angle to shaft carved from one piece of 'lawai' wood, and smeared with red ochre and fat. Carved decoration on head of club done with a knife - purely decorative. Hole on one side of base of shaft. Made and used by elders and morans for castrating goats and steers - kept at home. nobody could remember why there is a hole in the handle, one man suggested it had been used as a hearth to make fire.
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