Headrest "kali"

Fidji

sold EUR 2,000

Provenance

Chistopher B. Hemmeter, Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA
John Giltsoff, Girona, Spain

Size

H: 17,5 cm

B: 47 cm

H: 6.9 inch

B: 18.5 inch

Description

wood, carved from one piece, base

Headrests were used by chiefs and men of elevated rank to protect the elaborate, decorated hair-styles of which Fijian men were particularly proud.

Alleva, Anne D', Art of the Pacific, London 1998, p. 42 f.

Elder, John Charles, "Art of Polynesia - Selections from the Hemmeter Collection of Polynesian Art", Honolulu, Hawai'i, 1990, p. 54

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