Flèche faîtière

A flèche faîtière is a French term that describes a carved rooftop spear, spire or finial that adorns houses of Melanesians in New Caledonia (the Kanak),[specify] particularly those of their chiefs.

Sharply pointed wood pieces fan out from either end of the central area, symbolically preventing bad spirits from being able to reach the ancestor.

Flèche faîtière means "carved roof top spear", which adorns the grande case or the "Great Hut" of the Chief of a Kanak clan.

[10] The flag of Kanaky is set in three colours namely, green for earth and flora, red for blood and sacrifice of people and blue signifying sea and sky.

[14] The Mwa Ka is located in a landscaped square opposite the Musée de Nouvelle-Calédonie and has a 12-metre pole, topped with flèche faîtière; its carvings represent the eight customary regions of New Caledonia.

Fragment of a roof finial of a large clan house, a sculpture of the Kanak people made of Houp wood, 18th century
A flèche faîtière on a Kanak house at the Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre , Nouméa , New Caledonia .
Cultural flag of the Kanak community , showing a flèche faîtière (a spear–like wooden totem monument placed atop traditional dwellings).