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Flywhisk Handle (tahiri ra'a)circa 1890

Not on view
Metal and wood staff with a long reddish-brown wooden handle, spiral-ridged metal shaft, and a complex multi-pronged finial at the top
Title
Flywhisk Handle (tahiri ra'a)
Place Made
Austral Islands, French Polynesia
Date Made
circa 1890
Medium
Wood
Dimensions
16 x 2 x 2 in. (40.64 x 5.08 x 5.08 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Masco Corporation Foundation
Accession Number
M.2009.126.2
Classification
Tools and Equipment
Collecting Area
Art of the Pacific
Provenance
Wayne Heathcote (b. 1943), New York, NY, sold to; Masco Corporation Collection, Livonia, MI; Masco Corporation Foundation, Taylor, MI, gift 2009 to; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • Wardwell, Allen. Island Ancestors: Oceanic Art from the Masco Collection. [Seattle]: University of Washington Press, 1994.