A Fine Maori Hand Club, New Zealand

wahaika, with a curved flat blade supporting a recumbent tiki figure with expressive features, on the base of the handle a tiki head of unusual features showing teeth, pierced through for attachment of a wrist thong; old 19th-century label on blade (illegible); very fine dark brown patina.

Probably Edward Roger Pratt (1789-1863), Ryston Hall, Norfolk
By descent to the present owner