Wood length 47 1/4in (120cm) Provenance Bengt Danielsson Collection, Tahiti Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection, Honolulu Published Kaeppler, Adrienne, Polynesia - The Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection of Polynesian Art, University of Hawaii Press, 2010, p. 317, fig. 388 Carved with fine details, including eight dancing figures around the pommel, the slightly tapered shaft with incised geometric chevrons, crescents and X's; the spade-form paddle with the outer surface decorated with a diamond pattern bordered with a band with crescents, the inner surface with six vertical panels with X patterns; fine dark brown patina.