War club ·  Papua New Guinea - Trobriand Islands, Massim · ID: 3036904

Description

wood, black patina, habile handle, flat corpus, elaborately decorated with accurate incised ornaments, accentuated with white pigment, min. dam., fine cracks, slight traces of abrasion;
at the far eastern point of New Guinea lies Milne Bay and the islands of the Massim Area, often incorrectly referred to as the “Trobriands”. The Massims designs are often based on stylized bird heads, which are carved in an interlocking manner to form a type of “Greek” scrolling.