This club is called Gugu club or Siriti club. For Fergus Clunie, this specific type of club is originated in the interior of the island of Viti-Levu and is less a war club than a prestige weapon used during ceremonies. It belongs to a small corpus of clubs reputed to be among the most elaborate and beautiful of all Fijian clubs, and whose shape is probably inspired by the representation of a freshwater fish.

For our club, its beautiful size, its remarkable glossy brown-reddish patina of use, its harmonious shape and the richness of its engraved motif, as well as two exceptional details for this type of Gugu-Siriti club, namely the extension of the engraved motifs on the upper and lower parts of the handle (a detail also present on the remarkable example from the former James Hooper - Jean-Louis Danis collections), and the glyph in the shape of a human figure engraved on the rear edge of the club in its upper part (a unique detail on a club of this type to our knowledge), place it among the most exceptional examples known.