"Totokia" ambush club with a heavy head bristling with spikes...
"Totokia" ambush club with a heavy head bristling with spikes representing the fruit of the pandanus tree, carved wood and sperm whale ivory (Physeter macrocephalus); it features a long, skull-piercing point. Fiji Islands, first half of the 19th century, H. 80 cm, W. 23 cm; shows signs of wear; tip broken off (?). Comparable example: Chartres, Musée des Beaux-Arts, inv. D.99.1.19, reproduced in the catalog *Fidji Face à Face, 1838*, p. 123. and at the Cinquantenaire Museum in Brussels, reproduced in the book *Archipel, Fiji, Samoa, Western Polynesia* by Jean Charles Carlier.
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"Totokia" ambush club with a heavy head bristling with spikes representing the fruit of the pandanus tree, carved wood and sperm whale ivory (Physeter macrocephalus); it features a long, skull-piercing point. Fiji Islands, first half of the 19th century, H. 80 cm, W. 23 cm; shows signs of wear; tip broken off (?). Comparable example: Chartres, Musée des Beaux-Arts, inv. D.99.1.19, reproduced in the catalog *Fidji Face à Face, 1838*, p. 123. and at the Cinquantenaire Museum in Brussels, reproduced in the book *Archipel, Fiji, Samoa, Western Polynesia* by Jean Charles Carlier.
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