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SOLOMON ISLANDS STAFF
Length: 41¾ in. (106 cm.)
Provenance
Ernst Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, before 1990
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Lot Essay

We can compare the Beyeler Solomon Island staff's figure to another one published by Waite and Conru (2008 fig.12) and to an axe handle (fig.78) also pictured in this same book. All of them present characteristic prognathous faces and tall circular earrings, features also found on musumusu canoe prow (op. cit. pp. 40-53).

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