Club
Kanak, Neu Kaledonien
heavy wood, middle brown patina with traces of black paint, circular shaft, getting broader to the top, mushroom-like tip with sharp edged rim, fine notched ornaments below, form of the branch visible, slightly dam., cracks (handle and shaft), minor missing parts at the tip
L: 75 cm, 19th Century (4675/001)

Provenance:
Coll. Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany
Private Collection, Germany

Lit.: Newton, Douglas (Hg.), Arts of the South Seas, The Collection of the Musée Barbier-Mueller, München, London, New York 1999, p. 305, ill. 13