Rootstock club "dromudromu" or "vunikau", 19th century · Fidji Islands · ID: 3046478
sold
EUR 2,000
Provenance
Congregation of the Sacred Hearts (SS.CC.), Ghent, BelgiumDutch Collection
Peter Willborg, Stockholm, Sweden (2006)
Size
H: 114 cm
H: 44.9 inch
Description
from especially heavy wood (mostly rootball and trunk of a young ironwood sapling), cracks, base
These massive clubs were used in armed conflicts.
Comparing literature
Meyer, Anthony J.P., Ozeanische Kunst, Vol. II, Köln 1995, p. 470, ill. 541 Kaeppler, Adrienne, Polynesia, Honolulu 2010, p. 238, ill. 114 ff.