Maori Hand Club, probably Northland, New Zealandpatu onewa length 15 1/8in (38.4cm)ProvenanceEnglish Private CollectionThis finely carved basalt club is pierced through at the handle for a fiber wrist cord attachment, the butt with four concentric ridges and one in the center.Cf. Starzecka, Dorata, Roger Neich and Mick Pendergrast (eds), The Maori Collections of the British Museum, The British Museum Press, London, 2010, fig. 757, for a similar club with a comment from David Simmons: "Northland, eighteenth century."