TEWHATEWHA
Details
A Maori club
tewhatewha
With carved mask on slender shaft, a bunch of feathers pendent at the rim of the semicircular blade, dark patina
119cm. long
tewhatewha
With carved mask on slender shaft, a bunch of feathers pendent at the rim of the semicircular blade, dark patina
119cm. long
Provenance
Lt.-Gen. A.H.L.-F. Pitt Rivers, bought from Lawrence's 1899
Exhibited
Ta'aroa, L'Univers polynesien, Brussels, 1982, p.65, fig.28