Details
A MAORI ADZE
With cylindrical handle, human head at end, surmounted at top with a seated tiki figure, the legs extended along the shaft, claw like hands grasping abdomen, small head with open mouth, large flat eye sockets, the body decorated with serrated and curvilnear relief tattoo patterns, below a tongue shaped nephite blade lashed with coconut fiber, xxin. (xxcm.) long
With cylindrical handle, human head at end, surmounted at top with a seated tiki figure, the legs extended along the shaft, claw like hands grasping abdomen, small head with open mouth, large flat eye sockets, the body decorated with serrated and curvilnear relief tattoo patterns, below a tongue shaped nephite blade lashed with coconut fiber, xxin. (xxcm.) long
Provenance
Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 56.15
Armand P. Arman, Paris
Armand P. Arman, Paris
Literature
Guiart, 1963, p. 361, no. 374