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THB19th C. Polynesian Tongan Wood Hand Club
Lot 298
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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- Lot Description
Oceania, Polynesia, probably Tonga, ca. 19th to early 20th century CE. A heavy, beautifully preserved tropical hardwood club with its columnar handle wrapped tightly in sennit and a large, diamond-shaped head with sharply carved edges. Tongan clubs, like many other Polynesian war clubs, struck the European imagination deeply, with the first knowledge of these objects outside of Polynesia coming from Captain Cook's voyages. George Forster, who accompanied Cook on his second expedition, wrote in his 1773 "A Voyage Round the World," "the clubs of the people of this isle, were of an infinite variety of shapes, and many of them so ponderous that we could scarce manage them with one hand... the whole surface of the plain clubs was as highly polished, as if our best workmen had made them with the best instruments." Size: 3.1" W x 12.75" H (7.9 cm x 32.4 cm); 14.55" H (37 cm) on included custom stand.
Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-Bill Jamison collection; ex-Niagara Falls Museum, 2002
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#154529Absolutely beautiful patina. Surface has some scratches, chips, and dents commensurate with age and wear. The woven sennit is in beautiful condition.Condition
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