Dance club "gugu" ·  Fidji Islands · ID: 3042473

Description

wood, brown patina, white pigment, shaft with oval cross-section, club head shaped like an axe blade, richly decorated with delicate incised ornaments, feather ornament, slightly dam., minor missing parts;
often incorrectly referred to as “lotus clubs”, the surface designs of these clubs are actually very stylized renderings of the flat butterfly fish, “gugu” (Chaetodontidae). Such clubs were used exclusively for dancing.

The object Dance club “gugu” with the object ID 3042473 was last part of the auction 86th Tribal Art Auction at May 27, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 127.

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Comparing literature

Wardwell, Allen, Island Ancestors, Oceanic Art from the Masco Collection, Fort Worth 1994, p. 172 f.