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Superb Wahaika - Wooden Short Hand Club, all over deep relief,…
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Superb Wahaika - Wooden Short Hand Club, all over deep relief, one side offering triple ridge haehae with pakati notching extending into fish scale haehae form. Reverse side holds single ruarua spiral made up of triple haehae lines contrasted with dragon tooth notching. Head of club offering fine intersecting haehae patterns and unorthodox notched dragon tooth spiral. Birdlike figure to incurve with hands to torso inlaid with finely executed paua shell eyes. Humanistic tiki head to butt. Late 19th century. Contact Period. Provenance: Reverend Fairbrother, Length 38 cm Width 15.5 cm D3.8 cm.
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