Clubs and Whips

Striking and flogging weapons of personal combat and crowd control, including the Irish shillelagh, the Maori patu and the South African sjambok. A weapon belongs here when its cited article describes it as a club, cudgel or whip. It excludes bladed weapons and firearms. These weapons are simple, cheap and easy to carry, and they appear in the history of policing, dueling, tribal warfare and colonial conflict as well as in ordinary soldiering.