This item is a very old hardwood club from New South Wales. This type of club has a bulbous head and a chiseled handle grip on the pointed end. The head has more than 100 nails hammered into the wood to make it more lethal. Clubs with nails are not common and they sell for a premium in auction houses. This type of club is often called a throwing club or a Nula Nula. It was made in the 19th Century using stone tools (except for the nails). The entire length has very fine longitudinal grooving made by stone tools. The circumferential grooving on the handle may have been chiseled using metal tools? This club is in very nice condition. There is a scratch near the nails in one location (see photos) and there is a small and narrow split in the wood near the nails. The addition of nails has increased the subsurface tensile stresses and the crack relieves the tensile stresses. The two ends have minimal blunting. It is one of the nicest Aboriginal clubs I have seen. I purchased this club from the Barclay Gallery in 1987.