Zemanek-Münster

Club "supe"

Solomon Islands - Malaita Island
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Provenance
Bonhams Chelsea, 24th March 1993, Lot 182
Rolf Kunitsch, Münster, Germany
Taille
L: 81 cm
L: 31.9 inch

Description

wood, grain recognizable, reddish brown patina, handle with diamond-shaped cross-section, merging into a rhombical corpus, cross-like divided by a raised vertical middle ridge and horizontal bulge, sickle-shaped handle, plantfibre cord, min. dam. (tip), scratches, abrasion of paint, rep. (one side of the club head), metal base;
used in combat and during ceremonies.


Littérature comparée

Newton, Douglas (ed.), Arts of the South Seas, Munich, London, New York 1999, p. 277, ill. 17

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