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Painted Club

Malaita (?), Solomon Islands, d. early 20th c.

Carved and painted wood

35” l x 9” w (88.9 x 22.86 cm)

Price: $900

 
 

This club, striking in its elegant simplicity, has a wonderful modernist quality. Vide Force and Force (1971: 249) for a similar example.

REFERENCES

Force, Roland W., and Maryanne Force. The Fuller Collection of Pacific Artifacts.

London: Lund Humphries, 1971, p. 249 (no. 276959).

 
 
 
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