Rare hammer-shaped fighting club

Papua New Guinea - Eastern Highlands Province, Wonenara or Marawaka areas, Anga

Provenance	Size	Hammer price
Leo Fleischmann, Sydney, Australia Anthony JP Meyer, Paris, France John & Marcia Friede, Rye, USA John Friede, with his wife, Marcia, assembled over decades the Jolika Collection, which is named in honor of their three children, John, Lisa, and Karen. More than 300 works from their holdings are now part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s permanent collection housed at the de Young.	L: 31.3 inch	sold

wood, handwritten collection no. "LF/C 99"

Friede, John et. al. (ed.), "New Guinea Highlands, Art from the Jolika Collection", New York 2017, p. 220, fig. 10.32 C