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
Comparing literature
Meyer, Anthony J.P., Ozeanische Kunst, Vol. I, Köln 1995, ill. 146