Massue "patu" · Nouvelle-Zélande, Maori · ID: 3042650
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Provenance
Austrian Private CollectionZemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 25 May 2013, lot 45
Belgian Collection
Description
blade of green nephrite stone, polished, lense-shaped in diameter, edgeless rims aside, drilled hole, min. dam.
Such clubs were considered the most prestigious of chiefly weapons. They were used like a sword with the main attacking stroke being a thrust with the tip after a series of parries and counterparries.
Littérature comparée
Mead, Sidney Moko (ed.), Te Maori, New York 1984, p. 225, ill. 149