Rare ceremonial adze ·  Îles Cook - Île Mangaia · ID: 3038945

Description

wood, light brown patina, blade from black basalt, designed like a sculpture: tower-like, tapering to the top, with square breakthroughs “breezy” built, fine notched decor, block-like projection for the blade base, fixed with fine plaited coir and a piece of animal skin, slightly dam., missing parts (blade), blade loose

Littérature comparée

Newton, Douglas (ed.), Arts of the South Seas, Munich, London, New York 1999, p. 325, ill. 3