Day 1 - Tribal Art the Americas, Indonesia & Oceania - 18th September 2019
Lot 1564
A Maori tewhatewha club New Zealand with a rounded blade
Estimate £5,000 - £6,000
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Description
A Maori tewhatewha club
New Zealand
with a rounded blade, pierced for attachment, with carved linear and notch decoration and two tiki masks with haliotis eyes to the top section of the shaft, with a further janus tiki mask and a tapering terminal,
137cm long.
Provenance
Given to the present owners father in the early 1950's.