Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A Tonga club moungalaulau

Polynesia

with all-over carved decoration of zig-zags, lines, small nodules of shark skin texture and seventeen glyphs including birds, crescents, fish and five figures; one catching a bird and another holding two clubs, with two carved recesses, previously with marine ivory, the butt with a suspension loop, 19th century,

94.5cm long.