Throwing club "ula tavatava" · Fidji Islands · ID: 3039202
sold
EUR 360
Provenance
German Private Collection, Berlin (1962)Size
H: 38 cm
H: 15.0 inch
Description
made from the rootball and trunk of a young ironwood sapling, short shaft with incised patterns, massive club head, min. dam., cracks, small missing parts
The object Throwing club “ula tavatava” with the object ID 3039202 was part of the auction 82nd Tribal Art Auction on February 27, 2016. The object with the lot number 84 achieved a sales price of EUR 360 with an asking price of EUR 300.
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Comparing literature
Newton, Douglas (ed.), Arts of the South Seas, Munich, London, New York 1999, p. 317, ill. 7