Herwig Simons

Dimensions

  79.00cm high (  31.10 inches high)

Diameter

11.00cm ( 4.33 inches in diameter)

Description

19th CENTURY NEW CALEDONIAN KANAK MUSHROOM HEADED WAR CLUB.
Europeans first sighted New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands in the late 18th century. The British explorer James Cook sighted Grande Terre in 1774 and named it New Caledonia, after the Scottish highlands, which the Romans had called Caledonia.