Club "gata" ·  Fidji Islands · ID: 3034551

Description

wood, brown patina, the underside of the top bark-like roughed up, min. dam., cracks, traces of usage;
these clubs represent the wide open jaws of the pacific Boa snake “gata”. A characteristic of the finer “gata” clubs are the roughly carved parallel grooves on the upper inner side. These are deliberately made by carving with stone tools into the growing ironwood sapling before it is harvested and fashioned into a club. The sharpe edge of this club was designed to break bones.

The object Club “gata” with the object ID 3034551 was last part of the auction 72nd tribal art auction at March 9, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 59.

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Comparing literature

Meyer, Anthony J.P., Ozeanische Kunst, Vol. II, Köln 1995, p. 473, ill. 546