The following lot was formerly in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Farnham, Dorset
TWO MAORI WALKING-STICKS: one with the finial carved as the grotesque head of a bearded European, the shaft carved with a tiki figure and a lizard, the other with the finial carved as a head with carved scrolls to the chin and some haliotis shell inlay; a Maori digging-stick carved with notched scrolls; a Maori adze blade of grey green stone, inscribed: Found at Purakanui, New Zealand, Hyam's March 1899; and a Cook Islands adze haft with plaited coir binding about the head
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TWO MAORI WALKING-STICKS: one with the finial carved as the grotesque head of a bearded European, the shaft carved with a tiki figure and a lizard, the other with the finial carved as a head with carved scrolls to the chin and some haliotis shell inlay; a Maori digging-stick carved with notched scrolls; a Maori adze blade of grey green stone, inscribed: Found at Purakanui, New Zealand, Hyam's March 1899; and a Cook Islands adze haft with plaited coir binding about the head
the longest 1m.31cm. (5)
the longest 1m.31cm. (5)
来源
Lt. Gen. A.H.L.F. Pitt Rivers
The second acquired Lawrence's 1899, the third acquired from W.D. Webster, 1898, no. 4322, the adze blade bought at Hyam's, March 1899
The second acquired Lawrence's 1899, the third acquired from W.D. Webster, 1898, no. 4322, the adze blade bought at Hyam's, March 1899