Spear-club · Papua New Guinea - Trobriand Islands, Massim · ID: 3037029
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Provenance
Inge Hett, Berlin, GermanySize
L: 253 cm
L: 99.6 inch
Description
black palm wood, lime, pointed shaft, elongated club head, lense-shaped in cross section, carved with the Massim-characteristic interwined delicate incisions, a stylized face of an ancestral spirit at the bottom of the club head, slightly dam., abrasion of paint
The object Spear-club with the object ID 3037029 was last part of the auction 77th tribal art auction at June 28, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 44.
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Comparing literature
Meyer, Anthony J.P., Ozeanische Kunst, Vol. I, Köln 1995, ill. 146