Tribal Art & Antiquities - 20th September 2016
Lot 554
A Samoa / Tonga club Polynesia wood
Estimate £4,000 - £6,000 | Hammer £6500
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Description
A Samoa / Tonga club
Polynesia
wood, with a diamond shape tooth edged blade, with geometric carved decoration, on a tapering shaft, with the remains of binding and with a pierced suspension loop, 19th century,
106cm long.
Provenance
Elijah Armitage 1781 - 1863.
Missionary in the south seas between 1821 - 1836.
Thence by family descent.