Adze, Cook Islands
length 9 1/2in (24.2cm)
Basalt
Provenance:
Peter Reimann Collection, New Jersey
cf. Te Rangi Hiroa, The Material Culture of the Cook Islands (Aitutaki), Thomas Avery & Sons Ltd., 1927, fig. 196.
With a finely worked smooth, mirror-like surface, carved triangular in section with the base anterior.
Sold for
US$ 30,000
inc. premium
Category:
Ethnographic Art
/
African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art
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