Description:
Maori Carved Wood "Chief's" Staff or Walking Stick, the shaft decorated with fine curvilinear designs and two relief carved T.K. figures with inlaid shell eyes, lg. 35 in.
Provenance: Leo and Lillian Fortess Collection; "Collected by John A. Rabe prior to 1880, Exhibit Columbian Exposition 1893."
Estimate $800-1,200
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