A priestly club

What follows has come largely from the Pitts Rivers Museum website.

The Fijians were once a most war-like people and used a wide variety of wooden war clubs with different functions; specialist clubs for slicing, breaking bones, crushing or piercing skulls, throwing clubs and highly decorated cubs that were simply for show.
This is a relatively recent example of a kinikini club with a fan-shaped head, and long shaft. At 1.5 metres long and 0.5 metres wide, the kinikini is one of the most challenging clubs to carve.  Only the head or 'blade' is shown here. It is richly decorated with carved hatching; the long slim shaft is similarly decorated and ends with a small pommel.
The proportions and elaborate carving of a kinikini suggest they were seldom used for fighting. Instead, they were used exclusively by chiefs ('Ratu')  and priests ('Bete') for ceremonial purposes indicating the high status  of the owner.
Although there are descriptions of the thin edge of the kinikini being used in a cleaving action in combat tis would be an unusual as  chiefs and priests were largely exempt from violent contact during battle. Traditionally, the general practice in large-scale land engagements in Western Polynesia was for the sides to let fly a volley of arrows at a distance of around thirty metres, before charging to engage. Since neither the priest nor chief was expected to enter into hand-to-hand contact, the moment of this volley release was when they were potentially subject to as much danger as their warriors. Consequently, the shield-like shape of the kinikini can be seen to have developed as an elite protection against such arrows.

I have previously blipped a much more lethal and business-like throwing club.