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    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: A fine and rare paddle club, Uvea Island , late 19th/ early 20th century
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: A fine and rare paddle club, Uvea Island , late 19th/ early 20th century
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: A fine and rare paddle club, Uvea Island , late 19th/ early 20th century
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: A fine and rare paddle club, Uvea Island , late 19th/ early 20th century

    A fine and rare paddle club, Uvea Island , late 19th/ early 20th century

    tui, Wood
    length, 124.5 cm (49 in)
    €8,000

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    Most likely stone carved with incised linear and geometric designs; fine reddish-brown patina.
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    Most likely stone carved with incised linear and geometric designs; fine reddish-brown patina. 

     

    Provenance

    Private Collection, Hawaii

    Literature

    According to Edwin C. Burrows (Bishop Museum Bulletin 138 – Ethnology of Futuna, 1936: page 122), “The large billet clubs called tui, which were brought to me turned out to be a paddle club (kailao). Tui Angaifo said, Le tui ko le kailao, ke le nea faka-Uvea (the tui is the kailao, its an Uvean thing).  The Kailao, seems to be primarily a weapon; it is used in Futuna for dancing, though I was told that it can be used in war. The Futuans do not regard it as characteristic of their island.”

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