Zoomorphic Wooden Throwing Club, luny
Ingessana, Sudan
Wood, leather
Early 20th century

The Ingessana used a number of different styles of throwing clubs constructed from wood known as luny for hunting and warfare. Interestingly, they also manufactured two iron types of throwing knives knows as sai and muder, but those were not used in any functional capacity (Spring, African Arms and Armor, 1993).  

Published: Lefebvre, The Throwing Knives: The Northern Knives (Volume 1), 2019, plate 134. 

25.5 in :: 65 cm

InventoryID #13-2087

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