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TOKI POU TANGATA
Details
a maori presentation adze
toki pou tangata
The wooden shaft with two struts with carved tiki figures, one grasped by a lizard, each with paua-shell inlay eyes, the fine long jade blade of mottled light-green stone, the twisted flax lashing with panel of blonde hair, head finial to grip also with shell inlay and pierced at tip
51cm. long
toki pou tangata
The wooden shaft with two struts with carved tiki figures, one grasped by a lizard, each with paua-shell inlay eyes, the fine long jade blade of mottled light-green stone, the twisted flax lashing with panel of blonde hair, head finial to grip also with shell inlay and pierced at tip
51cm. long
Provenance
Sotheby's London, 28 July 1975, lot 31
Exhibited
Ta'aroa, L'Univers polynesien, Brussels, 1982, no. 24