Southern African carvers often incorporated a variety of visual elements into their compositions, sometimes in playful and unusual ways. This club features a prominent human head topping a shaft that resembles a rifle. The whole piece is marked with a heavy geometric effect in its use of simple, solid shapes. The head is cut efficiently from only a few angles, planes, and curves, showing a sharply concave face and dome-shaped coiffure. Next to the eyes are found twin scarification marks that bear similarity to those engraved below the eyes on a figural staff in our possession (also from the Maritz Collection), which are attributed to the Ntwana or Pedi. The nose has been repaired.

This is the only known example of a club carved with these idiosyncratic features, and it may very well be unique.