A MAORI NEPHRITE HAND CLUB, with finely polished broad blade, the pierced butt with three grooves, chip to tip of butt

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A MAORI NEPHRITE HAND CLUB, with finely polished broad blade, the pierced butt with three grooves, chip to tip of butt
42cm. long

Lot Essay

This club was probably made for presentation to a visiting dignitory and is of a fine green colour: it has been suggested that the nephrite might have been imported from Germany, a material that appears to have been supplied to the Maoris from that country for more than one hundred years.

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