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Lot 273

Dome Headed Club, Fiji Islands

11 November 2019, 15:00 EST
New York

Sold for US$15,075 inc. premium

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Dome Headed Club, Fiji Islands

bulibuli
length 40in (101cm)

Provenance
James T. Hooper Collection, Arundel (No.866)
Christie's, London, 21 June 1979, Lot 101
Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del Rey, California

The head with a distinctive pattern of flattened projections; the rounded shaft highlighted overall with finely incised zigzag design; the grip with even finer incisions and bound with finely woven fiber, now frayed in some areas; fine unpolished reddish-brown patina with traces of red pigmentation around the head.

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