SW-34 PREHISTORIC STAR CLUB HEADS
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SW-34 PREHISTORIC STAR CLUB HEADS
New Guinea Highlands, Papua New Guinea.
All three club heads are ex-important Tahitian collection.
In the distant past in the Highlands of New Guinea, stone club heads were used widely. At contact (1930s) the Baruya of the eastern Highlands continued to use stone clubs in warfare. However, use of stone clubs in warfare in the main Highland valleys had become obsolete by then, and had become objects of magic and ritual. Then they were painted with ochre colours.
a) Double Star Club Head, New Guinea Highlands. Ex-Leo Fleishmann coll, Sydney LF/L53.
b) Double Star Club head, hard volcanic stone. Wahgi Valley.
a) 14 cm diam x 6.5 thick
b) 12 cm diam x 4.5 thick
A) $700 B) $600
