Three Massim adzes

Three Massim adzes

Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea

all missing their blades, one with a large disc terminal with a pierced flange, two with carved bird head terminals and all with fibre binding,

66cm, 62cm and 57cm long. (3)

Provenance

The smaller - Mrs Stella Pitt-Rivers, from the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham, Dorset.

Sotheby's, London, 20 March 1981, lot 63 part.