Templets løve - 90 cm - Thailand
Nr. 78518969
War club from Pentcost island - Vanuatu
Nr. 78518969
War club from Pentcost island - Vanuatu
An elegant war club from Pentcost island, Vanuatu .
Ceremonial Club in heavy hard wood,
Spade like form with a cylindrical shaft and a flattened wooden head carved into two opposing crescents and terminating in a broad arc. A triangular prism ridge runs down the lower half of each face as an abstracted nose feature top of which expresses a very beautiful, highly stylized vision of a human face built around the central ridge like a nose. Engraved butt.
referenced : Ethnology of Vanuatu, Spieser, 1923, Plate 57
Du vil måske også kunne lide
Denne genstand blev vist i
Sådan køber du hos Catawiki
1. Opdag noget særligt
2. Afgiv det højeste bud
3. Foretag en sikker betaling