Casse Tête II Galerie Meyer Oceanic and Eskimo Art

Anthony Meyer unveils his new exhibition "Casse-Tête II" !

For this exhibition Anthony Meyer gathers museaum quality weapons from Oceania !

This exhibition will be a new vision of his previous exhibition called "Casse-Tête" in 1989.

A print catalogue will be published.

Palau bubu

Tolai People, Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia

Black palm wood, rattan, tapa, shell (Nassa sp.), and feathers

152.5 cm

19th century

An old paper label (probably a German tax or customs stamp) with indecipherable writing in pencil is affixed to the top of the club

Provenance:

Collected in the field either by Father Mathäus Rasher before 1904, or by Richard Parkinson before 1909

Ex collection: Mission of the Sacred Heart (MSC), Hiltrup, Münster, Germany

Ex collection: Loed and Mia van Bussel, Amsterdam

Private Dutch collection

Very early ceremonial club with a trident tip

Southern Massim Region, South East New Guinea, PNG, Melanesia

19th century

H.: 86.7cm

Black Palm wood, pigments, feathers, pandanus fiber and bush string

Provenance : Formely on the collection of General Augustus Pitt River and his wife Stella, Farnham, UK.

Sold at Sotheby’s London, July 11 1988, as lot 27.

Ex coll. : Marsha & John Friede, the Jolika Collection, Rye, NY.

Michael Hamson, USA.

Alexandre Bernand collection, Paris/London

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