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Maori Artefacts, Oceanic Arts & Decorative Arts — Webb's

Auction House: Webb's Number of lots recorded: 355
Sale Title: Maori Artefacts, Oceanic Arts & Decorative Arts Lots with images: 339
Auction Location: Auckland Prices available: 215
Date: 24/09/2009









Lot Description Price Image
*** The Ryman Collection. *** N/A 
*** A Maori Carved Stone Sinker with Notch Details, together with two other sinkers. Recovered dune/beach, Gisborne area ***
*** Maori Carved Stone Adze recovered dune/beach, Gisborne area ***
*** Maori Basalt Stone Chisel, together with several obsidian flakes.Recovered dune/beach, Gisborne area ***
*** A Sea Mammal Bone Fragment, recovered dune/beach Gisborne area. Length 22 cm Width 10.5 cm ***
*** An Iron Trade Tomahawk Head, Length 11.8 cm Width 8 cm, sold together with two shaped nail fish hooks and a larger shaped nail hook. Recovered dune /beach Gisborne area ***
*** Eight Musket Balls and Two Clay Pipe Bowls with a Dark Green Glass Bottle Fragment, recovered dune/beach Gisborne area ***
*** A Carved Wooden Patu, Length 36.2 cm ***
*** A Carved Wooden Folk Art Stylised Maori Tekoteko Figurehead, with Paua shell inlay to the eyes and russet paint remnants to the weathered surfaces. Height 78.5 cm ***
*** A Pair of 20th Century Maori Carved Bookends, each carved as an ancestral figure in relief flanked by two incised carved profile heads and notched linear designs, in stained Kauri. Height 18 cm ***
*** A Maori Contemporary Greenstone Pounamu Mere, Length 36.5 cm ***
*** Carved Wooden Pipe and Stem with Rauru Spirals, featured on each side. A Rauru type face features on front of pipe bowl with protruding tongue. Circa 1900 ***
*** A Maori Taniko Weaving Band, muka kaupapa; burgundy, black and white taniko patterns of alternating triangles. Length 83 cm Width 5.5 cm ***
*** Maori Flax Piupiu *** N/A 
*** A 20th Century Woven Kete, the vegetable fibres with a stained black pattern ***
*** An Early 20th Century Folk Art Maori Carved Pencil Case, with Paua shell eye inlay and dark stained. Note; some faults including structural loss. Length 23.6 cm Width 5.4 cm Height 3.5 cm ***
*** Stone Adze Head of Dark Grey Agrillite, Ground on back and front. Chipped. . Length 7.6 cm ***
*** Stone Adze Head of Green Greywacke, Ground on front, back and sides only hammer dressed. . L16.6 cm ***
*** Stone Adze of Greywacke, finely hammer dressed on all surfaces. . Length 15 cm ***
*** Stone Adze of Green / Grey Greywacke, Sold with one other stone. Broad Bladed tapering to narrow point. Mainly hammer dressed with small area of grinding. . L23 cm ***

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