AUSTRAL ISLANDS PADDLE POMMEL
FRENCH POLYNESIA
£525
African & Oceanic Art, Antiquities and Natural History
Auction: 24 November 2021 at 10:00 GMT
Description
carved wood, the flared head depicting dancers hand-in-hand below a raised section of suns and niho teeth, the shaft with all-over incised decoration of X's, cut from a full paddle
Footnote
Provenance:
From the collection of John Thislethwaite (fl. 1840s - 1850s), a Quaker merchant. Thence by descent.