Wheku-headed Tewhatewha with Feathers
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Tewhatewha (long handled fighting staff), the slender tapering shaft with four bands of fine rauponga carving and pataki(dog tooth notching) . The back of the flanged blade unusually carved with a wheku head. The blade pieced with attached feathers, small chip to the blade rim, 115 cm length. Provenance: Private Collection; purchased by the current owner in Paris in 1974 in the Arts Primitifs auction at Hotel Drouot.
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