Maori Carved Wood Billhook Hand Club

Description:

Maori Carved Wood Billhook Hand Club, New Zealand, 19th century, the curved blade with deeply carved scroll designs and recumbent bird-head figure on the inside, the handle with grotesque mask finial, pierced for suspension, lg. 14 3/4 in.

Provenance: Collected by Rev. Alfred Fairbrother, Baptist minister to the Maoris, 1882-85.
Estimate $4,000-6,000

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