Throwing club "i ula drisia" · Fidji Islands · ID: 3042944
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Provenance
Dunbar Sloane, New ZealandMark Eglinton, New York, USA
Size
L: 36,5 cm
L: 14.4 inch
Description
wood, softly luminous brown patina, delicate shaft with incised band ornaments in the handle zone, heavy bowl-shaped club head with deepenings, slightly dam., cracks, traces of usage.
Every Fidjian man would wear at least one “ula” thrust through his waistband, sometime in pairs like pistols.
The object Throwing club “i ula drisia” with the object ID 3042944 was last part of the auction 87th Tribal Art Auction at November 11, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 38.
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