A fine war-club decorated with a crocodile head as the finial holding a human head in each side of its mouth. A headless human figure is carved as if holding the crocodiles mouth closed with his arms.

Santa Isabel or Florida Island, Solomon Islands, Melanesia. Wood with traces of lime. 127 x 9.2 x 4 cm. 19th century. See a club of similar style by the same artist in the collections of Gal. Meyer, Paris 2005.

Ref. : Waite, Deborah: ART OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS. Musée Barbier-Müller, Geneva. 1983.