Tribal Art & Antiquities - 19th February 2020
Lot 744
A Fiji club Melanesia with a noduled 'knobbly' head with a pointed end
Estimate £15,000 - £20,000 | Hammer £15000
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Description
A Fiji club
Melanesia
with a noduled 'knobbly' head with a pointed end, with a slightly tapering shaft with a flat terminal, the white inventory number H.857,
115cm long.
Provenance
James T. Hooper, London / Arundel, acquired in 1944.
Christie's, London, Melanesia & Polynesian Art from the James Hooper Collection, 19 June 1979, lot 96.
Literature
Steven Phelps. Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas, The James Hooper Collection, 1976, p.197, H.857.