Throwing club

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The throwing club or throwing stick is one of the first weapons used by early humans and cultures all around the world. In essence, it is a short stave or wooden club thrown as a projectile to hunt small game such as rabbits or waterfowl. In flight, it rotates rapidly, cracking the target with one of the ends, maiming or killing it. A throwing stick can be straight like a pointed wooden shaft or curved like the boomerang, and is much shorter than the javelin. It became obsolete as slings and bows became more prevalent. Throwing sticks shaped like returning boomerangs are designed to go straight to a target. Their surfaces are not shaped unevenly like airfoils, but are symmetrical on both sides, and do not exhibit curved flight.[1]

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ItemSource isRare itemIs incomplete
Carved ivory throwing clubToss-O-RamaDroughtman's Travelling Emporium-on-Wheels (1)
Ebony throwing club reinforced with iron bandsFlight of Hand, Flight of Hand (2)Flight of Hand (1)true
Gold-banded throwing clubToss-O-Rama
Ivory throwing club carved in the shape of a boar's tuskOver The Edge, Over the Edge (1)true
Steel-banded throwing clubtrue
Svidaw sisKifa Awrocis, Kifa Awrocis (obsolete)Kifa Awrocis (2)Kifa Awrocis (1)true
Throwing club (crafted)false
Weapon:Carved ivory throwing club
Weapon:Ebony throwing club reinforced with iron bandstrue
Weapon:Gold-banded throwing club
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