Star club

Reference : 4196

Tamanou wood (calophylum inophylum) with dark honey patina
Dimensions: Height 74cm
Presumed date of origin: 19th century
Kanak population
New Caledonia

Provenance:
Collection Jacques Lebrat, Paris

More details

The top of this club with its star-shaped head is carved from the root of the tree. It has seven points, cut off at the ends.

A model with the same architecture is preserved at the Weltmuseum in Vienna, Austria (Inv 000004) and is reproduced in the Musée du quai Branly catalog, Kanak, l’art est une parole Fig 39

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