Ceremonial paddle · Austral Islands, Ra'ivavae · ID: 3036664
Description
wood, dark brown patina, delicate chip-carved patterns cover the blade and shaft, the conical handle terminus encircled by a row of human figures, slightly dam., minor missing parts (rim of the blade), metal base;
such paddles are said to have been used in dances or on occasion of state affairs when one chief visited another. Paddles of this highly decorated kind were perhaps the most collected objects in the Pacific in the first half of 19th century. Well over one thousand exist in collections, and research has shown that they were made during a dynamic period of activity by Ra’ivavae carvers around 1820 -1840.
L’objet Ceremonial paddle avec l’ID d’objet 3036664 a fait partie de l’enchère 76th tribal art auction en 22 mars 2014 pour la dernière fois le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes et avait le numéro de lot 67.
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Littérature comparée
Hooper, Steven, Pacific Encounters, Art Divinity in Polynesia 1760-1860, Norwich 2006, p. 216, ill. 184