860 long. .- Make your own designs. Made of cedar. Use as a wall hanging. This is a nifo'oti, a carved wooden weapon from Samoa. It is one of several forms of nifo'oti that have been made in Samoa from at least the early 1800s. The first nifo'oti may have been modelled on cane knives or the blubber knife of early nineteenth century English and American whalers. Nifo'oti are fascinating weapons. They are entirely unique to Samoa and are considered the 'national weapon'. Unlike the overwhelming majority of Polynesian clubs (New Zealand excepted), which possess a diamond, square or oval head section, or 'bird-headed forms which arch forward, nifo'oti possess an unusual monolinear axial symmetry; the front edge comprises a comb of teeth and the back edge is smooth save for a hook at the end ('nifo'oti' translates as 'tooth at the end').