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Lot 297

Maori Hand Club, New Zealand

11 November 2019, 15:00 EST
New York

US$2,000 - US$3,000

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Maori Hand Club, New Zealand

patu onewa
length 13 (32.7cm)

Provenance
Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del Rey, California

This finely carved basalt club is pierced through at the handle for a fiber wrist cord attachment, the butt with two concentric ridges and one in the center.

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