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
Comparing literature
Meyer, Anthony J.P., Ozeanische Kunst, Vol. II, Köln 1995, ill. 541