Rootstock club "dromudromu" or "vunikau", 19th century

Fidji Islands

sold EUR 2,000

Provenance

Congregation of the Sacred Hearts (SS.CC.), Ghent, Belgium
Dutch 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.

Meyer, Anthony J.P., Ozeanische Kunst, Vol. II, Köln 1995, p. 470, ill. 541 Kaeppler, Adrienne, Polynesia, Honolulu 2010, p. 238, ill. 114 ff.

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