PROBABLY GAUA

Details

A FINE AND RARE BANKS ISLANDS CLUB
Probably Gaua
With raised ridges to the shallow conical head, the section below with highly stylised quadrupeds carved in relief and with some red pigment, pierced openwork butt, black patina with some encrustation
120cm. long

Provenance

Presented to Ronald Salisbury (died 1932), a colonial administrator based at Hog Harbour, Espiritu Santo

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Cf. Speiser, F., Ethnology of Vanuatu An early twentieth century study, Bathurst, 1990, plate 58, fig.23, for an almost identical club attributed to Gaua island (formerly Santa Maria Island), one of the southernmost Banks Islands

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