A Mangaia Island adze

A Mangaia Island adze
Cook Islands, Polynesia
with a basalt blade, bound with sennit and sharkskin, the shaft with a bent neck and bilateral round projections to the heel and with a flared terminal, pierced for attachment,
66cm long.

Provenance
Dreweatt Watson & Barton, Auctioneers, Newbury, UK, 13 June 1979.
The van Raalte Collection, UK.

cf. Steven Phelps, Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas, The James Hooper Collection, 1976, p. 135, plate 71.