Massue "patu"

Nouvelle-Zélande, Maori

Provenance	Taille	Prix d’appel / Prix d'Estimation
Austrian Private Collection Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 25 May 2013, lot 45 Belgian Collection	H: 29,5 cm	Cet objet n’est plus disponible.

blade of green nephrite stone, polished, lense-shaped in diameter, edgeless rims aside, drilled hole, min. dam.
Such clubs were considered the most prestigious of chiefly weapons. They were used like a sword with the main attacking stroke being a thrust with the tip after a series of parries and counterparries.

Mead, Sidney Moko (ed.), Te Maori, New York 1984, p. 225, ill. 149

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