From the South Pacific to Plymouth

It’s amazing what turns up at Plymouth Auction Rooms… 

From the South Pacific to Plymouth, our valuers were pleased to identify this non-descript long carved wooden stick as a rare throwing club from the Fijian Islands.

Throwing clubs or ‘i ula’ were invariably made of a single piece of wood, usually an uprooted shrub. Clubs of this type were sometimes used for hand-to-hand combat but they were most effective when thrown, and were capable of delivering devastating blows.

Coming up in the next Antiques & Collectables Auction on the 10th October, Lot 121 is a 19th Century Fijian Ula (Throwing Club), of dense hard wood the domed head carved with a band of lobes, the cylindrical shaft carved at the grip with vertical bands of chevrons, 42.5cm.

The market for Oceanic Tribal art is as hot as the temperature!

The team are taking consignments, so if you have items of interest then please call the saleroom on 01752 254740 to arrange your quick and easy auction appraisal. Alternatively, you can fill out our valuation form here.