While starkly simple, the carving on this towering club shows fine craftsmanship, and as an object it brings a pleasing element of design to a room. This club may have been used in both conflict and dances preceding battle (vide Waite 1983: 88).

REFERENCES

Art of Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, Monday January 31, 2018, Lempertz (Brussels,

2018), lot 281.

Art Premiers - Afrique - Oceanie, Monday December 7, 2015, Eve Auction (Paris, 2015), lots

276–8.

Waite, Deborah. Art of the Solomon Islands: From the Collection of the Barbier-Müller

Collection. Geneva: Musée Barbier-Müller, 1983, p. 88.

Waite, Deborah B. Artefacts from the Solomon Islands in the Julius L. Brenchley Collection.

London: Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Publications,

1987, p. 263.