Fiji Islands, Polynesia This "Gata" war club, of remarkable quality, is distinguished by the elegance of its lines and its red-brown patina, and by the superb contrast between the very great delicacy of the ornate decoration and the natural beauty of the apparent heart of the ironwood (casuarina), with a tormented vein. Gata clubs were used in Fiji as weapons of war and in religious rites.

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77,5 cm (H)