A Maori jade hand club

PATU POUNAMOU

细节

A Maori jade hand club
patu pounamou
The spatulate blade of mottled green stone with reddish tip, grooved and pierced butt
32.5cm. long

来源

Hugh Frederic Snowden. The club was reputedly presented to him by a grateful chief after Snowden rescued him from drowning in a river near Dargaville, North Island

展览

Ta'aroa, L'Univers polynesien, Brussels, 1982, no.21