Large Iwisa Knobkerrie Club
Kingdom of Zulu - Colony of Natal - Swaziland- Union of South Africa (South Africa)
Late 19th - Early 20th century (ca. 1900)
One- piece carved hardwood
Knob Diameter: 8,9cm
Overall Length: 80cm
Collection Date: 2022
Collection Number: 258

Ex. Rick Stroud (RSWORD): Raleigh, North Carolina, USA (2022)

A large club known as an iwisa knobkerrie used by numerous groups in Eastern and Southern Africa. This example is slightly larger than the average, both in length and knob diameter without being the larger executioner form. Carved from one piece hardwood. The name derives from the Afrikaans word "knop" (knob or ball) and the khoekhoe or San word "kirri," meaning walking stick. Likely from the British South African War campaign period of the late 19th - early 20th century.

Photo 6: Zulu Warrior, 1917, by Cornelius Howard (1860 -1939).

• https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Af1922-11

• https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Af1953-25-33

• https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Af1889-0618-10

• http://www.africanarms.com/gallery?zulu-club-56-cm

• http://oriental-arms.co.il/item.php?id=5963

• http://vikingsword.com/lew/w0076/w0076.html