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Part of a dignitary staff
Salomonen

wood, black shiny patina, base in the shape of a stylized figure, without legs and indicated arms, the narrow head with cap-like coiffure, eyes, ear-ornaments, necklace and belt with delicate mother-of-pearl inlay, repeated on the round staff above in three horizontal bands, knob-like handle, slightly dam., pieces of mother-of-pearl inlay missing in some areas, fissures, on metal base
H: 35 cm, (5014/005)

Provenance:
Michael Evans, Ferndale, USA

Lit.:
Newton, Douglas (ed.), Arts of the South Seas, The Collection of the Musée Barbier-Mueller, München, London, New York 1999, p. 282

Part of a dignitary staff
Salomonen

wood, black shiny patina, base in the shape of a stylized figure, without legs and indicated arms, the narrow head with cap-like coiffure, eyes, ear-ornaments, necklace and belt with delicate mother-of-pearl inlay, repeated on the round staff above in three horizontal bands, knob-like handle, slightly dam., pieces of mother-of-pearl inlay missing in some areas, fissures, on metal base
H: 35 cm, (5014/005)

Provenance:
Michael Evans, Ferndale, USA

Lit.:
Newton, Douglas (ed.), Arts of the South Seas, The Collection of the Musée Barbier-Mueller, München, London, New York 1999, p. 282