Tonga Pakipaki War Club, Polynesia, 18th Century

18th Century French walnut wooden snuffbox French walnut wooden snuffbox Beautiful detailed cut scenery, celebrating people The text will be probably "rejouissance mamand" (festiv...

English 18th century gateleg table. An Oak drop-leaf gateleg table with folding sides, resting on turned column legs. On 1 side there i...

18th Century oak coffee table A coffee table made of oak top with straight legs united with straight stretchers. There are three drawe...

18th Century Chinese Imari plate A Kangxi, Imari underglaze blue plate with scene of peonies and gold and red painted , bamboo and deer 1662-17...

A Polynesian hardwood Ula tavatava or throwing war club Fiji, probably 18th century All-over decorated in incised pattern, the bulbous top seems to have a stone grown into it. H. 42 cm Including museum-quality powder-coated stand. Provenance: Private collection, France Polynesian culture is traditionally a culture of power and prestige, and there was a fine line between battle and ceremony. Warrior people par excellence, the Fijians had at their disposal a large panoply of weapons, each for a specific use. The elegant Gata are called gun-sticks by Europeans due to the recognizable form. However, they are designed after a snake, gata in Fijian language. The Ula throwing clubs...

A splendid and rare Amazon indigenous wamara wood Macana war-club Southern-Guyana or Northern Brazil, Wapitxana group of the Aruak peoples, 18th century, possibly earlier Measure: H. 43 cm The deep patina of the club present, and the residue on the part where it was held, attest to its great age. This unusually large Macana is decorated with several incised whitened anthropomorphic and human figures, a decoration only found on one other documented club in the British Museum, which is illustrated in: Hjalmar Stolpe, Amazon Indian...

Gunstock shaped war club ‘Sali’. Ironwood root carved with traditional motifs. An excellent example, mounted on a custom stand in patinated bronze. Measure...

Fiji Ula Club Polynesian war club Tribal Oceanic A  good antique Fiji  Ula throwing club With naturally occurring root fissures on the ball head  Good condition with minor age cra...