Paddle "foe" · Santa Cruz Islands, Western Reef Islands, Pileni or Nifiloli · ID: 3034554
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Provenance
Bonhams London, 20 September 2006, lot 195Size
L: 180 cm
L: 70.9 inch
Description
grained wood, honey brown and middle brown patina, leaf-shaped blade, the relief-carved abstract design represents a frigate bird in flight, slightly dam., missing part (tip of the blade)
The object Paddle “foe” with the object ID 3034554 was last part of the auction 72nd tribal art auction at March 9, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 50.
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Comparing literature
Hurst, Norman, Power and Prestige, Cambridge 1996, p. 63, ill. 71