Spear-club ·  Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Îles Trobriand, Massim · ID: 3037029

Description

black palm wood, lime, pointed shaft, elongated club head, lense-shaped in cross section, carved with the Massim-characteristic interwined delicate incisions, a stylized face of an ancestral spirit at the bottom of the club head, slightly dam., abrasion of paint

Littérature comparée

Meyer, Anthony J.P., Ozeanische Kunst, Vol. I, Köln 1995, ill. 146