War club "dromudromu" · Fidji Islands · ID: 3036609
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Provenance
Minderman, The Hague, The NetherlandsSize
H: 110 cm
H: 43.3 inch
Description
of heavy wood (mostly made from the rootball and trunk of a young ironwood sapling), massive form, the natural given branches forming burls around the clubs head, vertical bands with zigzag-ornaments in the handle zone, slightly dam., minor missing part (club head), fissures, metal base
The object War club “dromudromu” with the object ID 3036609 was last part of the auction 76th tribal art auction at March 22, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 70.
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Comparing literature
Meyer, Anthony J.P., Ozeanische Kunst, Vol. II, Köln 1995, ill. 541