Hawaiian Axe Made with Shark Teeth and Other Fearsome Weapons of Yore

• Mr. Dingo
  February 28th, 2008 at 4:41 pm

  Im not sure how the Fijian war club stayed under the radar. Beyond just looking awesome, you can hook a neck with the curve or twist a trachea with the fork.

  http://www.akatasgrassshack.com/images01/crafts01/h_005.jpg

• stevo
  February 28th, 2008 at 6:29 pm

  I wonder where the the writer pulled some of his claims from, like shuriken were normally used with venom or 90% of soldiers in vietnam who stepped on a booby trap died from infection.

  Or how the mace left battlefields filled with ‘torture and blood’ despite the fact it was a bludgeoning weapon and didn’t shed blood.

• TheSuperunknown
  February 28th, 2008 at 9:12 pm

  @2: I don’t know if you learned about maces from D&D or something, but I’m fairly certain that if you were hit by a heavy object (such as, for example…a mace) travelling at speed, you would probably end up rather bloodied - whether or not it was blunt is fairly irrelevant, although many maces were flanged.

• Ali S.
  February 28th, 2008 at 10:17 pm

  @ stevo

  Well, from what I gather that with the power of the swing from the mace and the mass of the blow I’m sure your skin would break and alot of blood would flow. For instance, a simple to the head would crack the skull and the thin skin covering. Major blood vessels in and around the head would rupture as a result.

  From my research and thesis papers about Modern Warfare the use of infected booby traps in Vietnam was quite common. The Vietcong who were masters of jungle warfare would do this because as a result of fearing for booby traps because of injury the added fear of a deadly infection would demoralize the US and South Vietnamese troops. However, I cannot vouch for the 90% statistic since I don’t know where the author got his information about that. But I’m guessing that when stuck in the middle of a jungle away from a clearing for helicopter pickups soldiers injured by infected booby traps could possibly succumb to the infection easily.

• heather
  February 29th, 2008 at 1:36 am

  The hunga-munga looks particularly frightening. i wouldn’t want to be on the business end of that thing.
  And am I the only one who wasn’t reminded of ‘Robin Hood: Men in Tights’ when they saw the crossbow pistol, ’cause that would make me feel like a dork.

• d.maile
  February 29th, 2008 at 3:19 am

  Hawaiians did not have throwing axes. The ranged weapons they favored were spears and the use of slings with rocks as projectiles was also prevalent.

  The image pictured would be called a leiomano, although this is more of a modern take, and in function would not be thrown. It would be used as if it were a short-handled axe, with cutting and slicing motions to important areas of the body, but it was not thrown.

• Vako
  February 29th, 2008 at 12:45 pm

  Throwing your weapon causes your enemy to pick it up and use it against you.

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