Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities - 20th February 2024
Lot 297
A Mangaia Island adze
Estimate £3,000 - £4,000 | Hammer £3528
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Description
A Mangaia Island adze
Cook Islands, Polynesia
with a basalt blade, bound with sennit and sharkskin, the shaft with a bent neck and bilateral round projections to the heel and with a flared terminal, pierced for attachment,
66cm long.
Provenance
Dreweatt Watson & Barton, Auctioneers, Newbury, UK, 13 June 1979.
The van Raalte Collection, UK.
cf. Steven Phelps, Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas, The James Hooper Collection, 1976, p. 135, plate 71.