This is one of only three known examples of such clubs in the world. One is in the Fuller Collection at the Field Museum in Chicago, one was in the James Hooper collection. All show the same curved form and serrated edges, but the Fuller example has additional wooden spikes running out of the curved top. This is the only example with a feather bundle bound to the handle, although a feathered example was illustrated in Rev. William Wyatt Gill's 'Life in the southern isles, or, Scenes and incidents in the South Pacific and New Guinea' published in 1876.

The feather bundle is probably made from frigate bird feathers, and would have served to make the weapon more powerful.

The club was formerly in the collection of the London Missionary Society. Missionaries were sent to the Pacific from the 1790s and sought to convert Pacific peoples through teaching but also active repression and destruction of traditional culture. Such fine objects with both ritual and martial uses particularly alarmed the missionaries and converts were encouraged to give them up in public ceremonies. Many were destroyed, but 'the best' were kept to be sent back to the Missionary Museum in London.