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Ethnology of Tokelau Islands

Spear

Spear

The fishing spear is seldom used at Atafu. The present weapons have single or multiple barbs, and iron points, fashioned from iron rods with a file, lashed to the end of a wooden shaft. The exact appearance of the ancient fishing spear (kalolo) could not be exactly ascertained.