100. * Y MAORI HAND CLUB, NEW ZEALAND wahaika sperm whale bone 36 cm. long Provenance Private collection, United Kindgom Cf. Neich, R. et al., The Maori Collections of the British Museum, London, 2010, pl.128-129, nos.811-818, for similar whalebone clubs, the majority attributed to the 18th and early 19th centuries. Another whalebone wahaika acquired by W.D. Oldman from Horatio Gordon Robley is said to have been collected by Midshipman Burr aboard HMS Discovery in 1777. For a club with similar distinctive treatment of the left hand see Christie's, London, 1 December 1987, lot 29.