A rare Rotuman war club, Rotuma Island, Republic of the Fiji Islands

uatongi, the lozenge-section head with a flat top and pierced bottom, with incised geometric design; '[H. 6]32' in white pigment on bottom, partially removed; fine reddish brown patina with residue.

James T. Hooper, Arundel (accession no. 632)
Christie's, London, June 17, 1980, lot 86
Acquired at the above auction

Steven Phelps, Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas: The James T. Hooper Collection, London, 1976, p. 160, pl. 87, cat. 682

Good condition overall. Minor loss to the tip of the middle ridge and top corner.
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For a closely related club previsouly in the collections of Jacob Epstein and Carlo Monzino see Bassani and McLeod (1989: 138, no. 481).