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A fine war-club decorated with a crocodile head as the finial holding a human head in each side of its mouth. Santa Isabel or Florida Island, Solomon Islands, Melanesia. Wood with traces of lime. 122.5 x 8.6 x 3.8 cm. 19th century. See an identical one in the collections of Barbier Mueller Museum, Geneva but with out the two human faces (ill. Waite, Deborah: ART OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS. Musée Barbier-Müller, Geneva. 1983.) |
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