A Fiji club Melanesia with a noduled 'knobbly' head with a pointed end

A Fiji club

Melanesia

with a noduled 'knobbly' head with a pointed end, with a slightly tapering shaft with a flat terminal, the white inventory number H.857,

115cm long.

Provenance

James T. Hooper, London / Arundel, acquired in 1944.

Christie's, London, Melanesia & Polynesian Art from the James Hooper Collection, 19 June 1979, lot 96.

Literature

Steven Phelps. Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas, The James Hooper Collection, 1976, p.197, H.857.