Post #203770 by SilverLine on 12/19/2005

I was doing some poking around at the libraries today and found this photo in "Island Ancestors: Ocianic Art from the Masco Collection" by Allen Wardwell c. 1994. According the to text this is a Marquesan fan handle done in whale bone or whale ivory. It has the same Greek key pattern but looks like it may represent the ears. The text dosen't say anything specific about the designs. No info on when this may have been carved, either.