Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A Tonga club akau tau

Polynesia

of tapering rhomboid form with all-over carved decoration of lines, zig-zags, dots, rectangles, deep cut double squares and glyphs including ten fish, two rays, two sharks, a turtle and a figure with his head on a large kali, the flat top centred a four point star and the flared base with a lug pierced underneath for attachment, early 19th century,

110cm long, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Private Collection, Belgium.

Native, Brussels, Tribal Art, Modern Art and 20th Century Furniture, 27 January 2018, lot 9.

Victoria, Lady De Rothschild, London.