Live Auction 1546The Raglan Collection: Wellington, Waterloo and The Crimea And Works of Art from the Collection of the Marquesses of Londonderry
A KANAK AXE
Lot 279

A KANAK AXE

NEW CALEDONIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed23 May 2014

Price Realised

GBP 4,000

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A KANAK AXE
NEW CALEDONIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY
An ancient Kanak axe with a green nephrite blade; together with an African wooden trumpet and a drum
27¼ in. (69 cm.) high

The following item from this lot was loaned to the Sudan Government Museum on 30 April 1918 under the following description:
9. Dongatolo horn or trumpet.