Massue "dromudromu" ou "vunikau", 19e siècle · Îles Fidji · ID: 3046478
Vendu
2 000 €
Provenance
Congregation of the Sacred Hearts (SS.CC.), Ghent, BelgiumDutch Collection
Peter Willborg, Stockholm, Sweden (2006)
Description
from especially heavy wood (mostly rootball and trunk of a young ironwood sapling), cracks, base
These massive clubs were used in armed conflicts.
Littérature comparée
Meyer, Anthony J.P., Ozeanische Kunst, Vol. II, Köln 1995, p. 470, ill. 541 Kaeppler, Adrienne, Polynesia, Honolulu 2010, p. 238, ill. 114 ff.