kotiate
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- blunt instrument
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- New Zealand
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- New Zealand; Maori wooden club (mere). Albumen print. Wellcome V0038536.jpg
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- Māori
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- Kotiate
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thumbnail|Two kotiate made of whalebone thumb|Māori war-clubs. The kotiate is second from right. Kotiate is a type of traditional hand weapon of the Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand.
A kotiate is a short club normally made of wood or whalebone. Kotiate means to cut or divide the liver (koti = cut in two or divide; ate = liver), is probably taken from its shape, which resembles the lobed part of the human liver.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “kotiate” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.