Lot: 68

Napa' dance club

Solomon Islands - Santa Cruz Islands

Provenance Size Hammer price
Old UK Collection H: 36 inch 1000 EUR

wood, black and red pigment,

These ceremonial clubs were carried by adult men during the 'napa' dance. This dance was widespread, but may have originated in Utupa, where it was used at initiation ceremonies for young men. During the complicated steps of the 'napa', the male dancers struck tghier clubs together ritually.


Hurst, Norman, Power and Prestige, Cambridge 1996, p. 58 f.