Throwing club "i ula drisia" · Fidji Islands · ID: 3042946
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Provenance
Dunbar Sloane, New ZealandMark Eglinton, New York, USA
Size
L: 42,5 cm
L: 16.7 inch
Description
wood, reddish brown patina with traces of black paint, typical form, deepenings and cracks in the club head, abrasion of paint.
Of special interest are the fourteen notches cut into the shaft. Supposedly each indent was made for a person that had been killed by the “ula” club.
The object Throwing club “i ula drisia” with the object ID 3042946 was last part of the auction 87th Tribal Art Auction at November 11, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 39.
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