Zemanek-Münster

War club "sali" ·  Fidji Islands · ID: 3034529

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Provenance
French Collection
Size
L: 99 cm
L: 39.0 inch

Description

wood, reddish brown patina, round handle zone, the corpus flattened and slightly curved, provided with sharp edges and projection, notched triangular ornaments with remains of indigo blue pigment, incised characters “RU…” (unreadable), slightly dam., missing parts (tip, base of the handle);
massive club called “sali”, after the clawed flower of the banana-like Sali plant of the Musa species.


The object War club “sali” with the object ID 3034529 was last part of the auction 72nd tribal art auction at March 9, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 57.

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