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Kanak, Neu Kaledonien
wood, brown shiny patina, shaft with circular cross-section and thickened handle zone, head in the shape of a birds head with long beak, bonnet and head crest, slightly dam., cracks, minor missing parts at the rims, place of repair (tip), on metal base; appeared during large-scale ceremonies.
H: 79 cm

Provenance:
Serge Schoffel, Paris, France

Lit.: Kaeppler, Adrienne, Christian Kaufmann und Douglas Newton, Ozeanien, Kunst und Kultur, Herder Verlag Freiburg, Basel, Wien 1994, p. 305, ill. 13