Lot n° 200
Estimation :
400 - 600
EUR
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Result
: 400EUR
Kanak "bird's beak" puzzle, New Caledonia - Lot 200
Kanak "bird's beak" puzzle, New Caledonia
Hardwood with dark brown to glossy black patina, accident and missing
L. 70.5 cm
Old Kanak high dignitary's club with deeply inlaid patina. The cylindrical shaft extends into a motif identified by Westerners as a bird's head, which for the Kanak world is more likely to be a representation of a sea turtle, whose spur-like mouth evokes a beak.
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