Kukukuku club

[Tim Simmons]

I was trying out an ipad {a desirable thing but in some ways quite a dissapointment} that I teated myself to. The picture management system on this site does not work with an ipad and it is taking me too long to find a way to upload to web sites so I have gone back to the desk PC.

What I want to show is this Kukukuku club really quite simple but still rather cool. This is not your polished Oceanic club. I might say that perhaps there is a lot less of them around. 930g and 90cm long the head diameter 10cm. The inside cut away area of the head has a clay like wash or painted surface.
It came to me from Germany and as a collector I would like to think that it could well have been collected during the German colonial period ending 1914. The Kukukuku live in an area that was part of the Anglo-German border now the Morobe province. I believe the Germans had the larger part of Kukukuku territory. It came to me with the usual auction sticky label marks which I hate. I do not see the auction stain on an item as any form of provenoce. They can be hard to remove nicely.