Rare ceremonial adze · Cook Islands - Mangaia Island · ID: 3038945
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Provenance
Tim Edwards, Wellington, New ZealandSize
H: 47,5 cm
H: 18.7 inch
Description
wood, light brown patina, blade from black basalt, designed like a sculpture: tower-like, tapering to the top, with square breakthroughs “breezy” built, fine notched decor, block-like projection for the blade base, fixed with fine plaited coir and a piece of animal skin, slightly dam., missing parts (blade), blade loose
The object Rare ceremonial adze with the object ID 3038945 was last part of the auction 80th Tribal Art Auction at June 27, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 49.
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Comparing literature
Newton, Douglas (ed.), Arts of the South Seas, Munich, London, New York 1999, p. 325, ill. 3