Property of various owners
Two South Seas clubs
Including a Fijian "pineapple" head club, the curving upper section with spiky head and lengthy tapering finial, a braided fiber band about the grip; along with a Samoan paddle club, the cylindrical shaft flaring slightly at the butt end, a pointed disk projection separating the shaft and spatulate blade, worked all over in chip-carved bands of fine zigzag patterning.
length 37 and 41 1/2in
See illustration
length 37 and 41 1/2in
See illustration
Sold for
US$ 1,195
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
For second; ex-Henry DePue, California. The DePue collection was assembled from 1888 to 1923; ex-Bonhams, London, 2003
Category: Ethnographic Art / Native American
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