Club "patu" · New Zealand, Maori · ID: 3042650
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Provenance
Austrian Private CollectionZemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 25 May 2013, lot 45
Belgian Collection
Size
H: 29,5 cm
H: 11.6 inch
Description
blade of green nephrite stone, polished, lense-shaped in diameter, edgeless rims aside, drilled hole, min. dam.
Such clubs were considered the most prestigious of chiefly weapons. They were used like a sword with the main attacking stroke being a thrust with the tip after a series of parries and counterparries.
The object Club “patu” with the object ID 3042650 was last part of the auction 87th Tribal Art Auction at November 11, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 40.
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Comparing literature
Mead, Sidney Moko (ed.), Te Maori, New York 1984, p. 225, ill. 149