Pick of the week: Polynesian war club is a big hit in Salisbury
A tribal war club from the Marquesas Islands with textbook provenance has sold for £71,000 at Woolley & Wallis. The u’u (head club) came for sale at the Salisbury saleroom from the descendants of an early-19th century missionary.
Elijah Armitage (1781-1863) was a London Missionary Society member who travelled to the South Seas…