An “Ornament”
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Letter to the Editor.
YOUR photograph of a so-called “knuckle-duster” in your issue of October 17 is most definitely not a weapon of offence. These ornaments are quite common in this district, and may be found round most villages, having been used, or intended for use, in earlier times, as canoe decorations.
The writer has frequently confiscated knuckle-dusters in the labour lines, most often from Malaita natives. They are usually in the form of a broad finger ring, with one or more spikes, and made either of brass or turtle-shell.
I am, etc.,
New Georgia.
Gizo, B.S.I., 20/11/1934.