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Maori, Oceanic & African Arts — Dunbar Sloane Ltd.

Auction House:Dunbar Sloane Ltd.Number of lots recorded:192
Sale Title:Maori, Oceanic & African ArtsLots with images:191
Auction Location:WellingtonPrices available:181
Date:22-Apr-2021
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Samuel Carnell (Napier), portrait of a Maori woman in a korowai, carte de visite albumen print mounted on photographer's card. 10.2 x 6.2 cm
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Samuel Carnell (Napier), portrait of Hami Te Hauerangi, carte de visite albumen print mounted on a photographer's card. 10.2 x 6.2 cm
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Portrait of an Aboriginal woman, carte de visite albumen print mounted on a photographer's card, 102 x 6.2 cm
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Samuel Carnell (Napier), portrait of a Maori chief wearing a korowai (cloak), carte de visite albumen print mounted on a photographer's card, 10 x 6.2 cm
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Samuel Carnell (Napier), portrait of a Maori chief with huia feathers in his hair and wearing a korowai, carte de visite albumen print mounted on a photographer's card, 10 x 6.2 cm
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Thomas Edward Price (Masterton), portrait of a Maori women wearing a korowai and holding a patu (hand club), carte de visite albumen print mounted on a photographer's card, 10 x 6.2 cm
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Thomas Edward Price, portrait of a Maori woman wearing a korowai holding a kotiate paraoa (whalebone hand club), carte de visite albumen print mounted on photographer's card, 10.2 x 6.2 cm
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Samuel Carnell (Napier), portrait of a Maori woman, carte de visite albumen print mounted on photographer's card, 10.2 x 6.2 cm
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Thomas Edward Price, group of Maori figures in front of a wharenui tipuna (dwelling), carte de visite albumen print mounted on photographer's card, 10.2 x 6.2 cm
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Thomas Edward Price, group portrait of Maori men, carte de visite albumen print mounted on photographer's card, 10.2 x 6.2 cm
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Anson Brothers (Hobart), portrait of an Aboriginal man and two women, carte de visite albumen print mounted on a photographer's card, inscribed on the verso 'Natives of Tasmania', 10 x 6.2 cm
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Tene Waitere carving a Poupou (wall panel), glass plate negative, inscribed Maori carver at work, 9 x 9 cm
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Allan Baldwin, Maori Kuia with Ta moko, a rare black and white portrait photo, circa 1966. Provenance: Hastings's photographer Allan Baldwin spent his life creating precious taonga, photographing over 1000 Maori kuia with Ta moko. Most of the work was not printed in this large size format. In 2012 his life's work was documented in the award-winning film Alan Baldwin in Frame, 46 x 36 cm
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Robert Percy Moore, Maori pa, Rotorua, New Zealand, panoramic black and white photograph, title inscribed and with photographer's label lower right, 19 x 93 cm
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A swamp recovered ko (digging implement), showing considerable wear, 183 cm length
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An important 19th century pounamu hei-tiki from the collection of Charles Frederick Goldie, light green inanga type variety with tilted head and lightly delineated hands placed on the thighs. The circular eyes with applied red sealing wax. Pierced through the head for suspension. Signed on the back C F Goldie and inscribed in faint white script with the name Ngaheke. Ngaheke Perira Te Kahikura was a Te Arawa Chieftainess that Goldie painted in 1915. Complete with supporting documentation. Provenance: Sold…
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Pounamu hei-tiki, a finely carved 20th century example. Kawakawa variety pounamu with a titled head and pointed chin. The shoulders tilt diagonally with one broad strongly delineated three figured hand on the chest and a lightly delineated hand on the thigh. 12 cm length. 7 cm width
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Ngati tarawhai gourd shaped Ipu (spouted bowl), finely carved, the underside with a wheku head with inset paua shell eyes framed by intersecting pakura (spiral) designs and rauponga (notched ridging lines and grooves) the bowl rim inset with paua shell discs. The spout carved with a wheku head and with further rauponga detailing. Some damage evident to the spout section. 29 cm length. 16 cm width
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Rare 19th century tuki (mouthpiece for a calabash), the tapering cylindrical form decorated with lineal rauponga and with a pair of well carved outward facing ancestral figures, each with three finger hands placed on the abdomen. 14 x 20 cm. Y 20988
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Ngati tarawhai table coaster, circular form, carved with four wheku heads with paua shell eyes and fine rauponga decoration, 20 cm diameter.
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Rare Chatham Islands Morori patu okewa (hand club), abstracted avian form, carved from rekohu schist. Probably used historically for ceremonies or the hunting of seals as the Morori embraced a pacifist culture that avoided all forms of warfare. A similar example is held in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te papa Tongarewa, 40 cm length.
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Wooden patu (hand club), an early 20th century example with thin oval blade tapering to the grip section. 31 cm length
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Large and impressive 19th century mere pounamu (greenstone hand club), beautifully crafted from kahurangi nephrite. The blade tapering to the grip section with a countersunk suspension hole terminating in five deeply cut graduating grooves. Provenance: Arthur Beau Palmer collection. 46 cm length.
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Fine and unusual 19th century hoe (paddle), classic form with long cylindrical shaft terminating in a carved figure with wheku face and with folded legs clasped by his arms with pakura (spiral) decoration. The back of the blade with faint inscription 'Meti Kin'. 192 cm length
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Wooden whakawae (door jamb) section, the 18th century architectural piece carved with three conjoined ancestral figures with naturalistic bodies and wheku faces mounted on an intricately carved and pierced support. Remnants of a barely legible old collection label to one side. 68 cm length 9 cm width.
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Taiaha (fighting staff), late 19th century example with tapering slender shaft and undecorated tongue and head section, split to one side. 160 cm length.
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Nguru (nose flute), light brown color with two holes to the front and three to the reverse of the body. Wheku head carved in relief to one end. 15 cm length.
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Matau (iron shark hook), 19th century, with a single barb. 13 cm length.
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An unusual pounamu pendant, Teardrop shape with carved notching to each side and with two countersunk suspension holes and lashing groove to the top. 8 cm length. Y 16131
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Large toki (adze blade), Quadrangular shaped, hammer pecked to the sides and tanged end section. 29 cm length.
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Ngati tarawhai table bowl, decorated with a continuous band of wheku heads with protruding tongues framed by rauponga and pakura carved bands. The circular foot with conforming carved decoration. 18 cm diameter. 15 cm height.
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An historically important kumete whakairo (carved lidded presentation bowl), the large and impressive kumete carved with two figures each modelled in a crouching position holding the bowl in their outstretched arms and supporting it on their legs with their chins resting on the bowl rim. Each figure with four fingered hands and naturally rendered face decorated with ta moko. The bodies of each extensively carved with rauponga (notched ridges and parallel grooves) and pikorauru (spiral) designs. The bowl is…
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Ngati tarawhai carved mirror frame, modelled in the form of a pare and whakawae, the lintels and supports which frame the windows of wharenui (meeting houses) the pare centered by a figure with hands placed to his abdomen flanked by outward facing manaia figures with three fingered hands above a frieze decorated with pikorauru (spirals) and rauponga. The whakawae with two ancestral figures each surmounting the other with their hands placed on their abdomens and with inset paua disc eyes. The lower section…
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A large and important carved poupou (carved ancestral panel), the standing male ancestral figure with naturalistic face and body and incised ta moko and rauponga and pikorauru (spiral) carving to shoulders. The abdomen carved with a wheku head. The legs with kowhaiwhai designs and with further rauponga carving. The figure surmounts a wheku head with rauponga carved detailing conforming to that on the main figure. Provenance: this important poupou is one of the eight panels carved by Tene Waitere for the…
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A rare pre-European Northland papahou (treasure box), stone tool carved. Robustly decorated to the underside of the box with two female figures, each in an opposing flexed stance with wheku form heads protruding from each end of the box. The heads are pieced to enable suspension. Each figure is carved with pikorauru (spiral) designs at the shoulders and the knees and have three fingered hands clasped to their abdomens. The walls of the box feature rauponga and pikorauru designs along with a single wheku…
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A late 19th century flax korowai (cloak), the muka kaupapa (foundation) crafted with double pair twining, decorated with black hukahuaka thrums. The decorative boarder woven in yellow, black, red, and blue wool. Framed and mounted in a display case, 125 x 140 cm.
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An early 20th century korowai (cloak), decorated with green wool thrums on a woven candlewick ground. The decorative border woven with red and green wool. Framed and mounted in a display case, 113 x 126 cm.
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Tokotoko (ceremonial walking stick), tapering cylindrical form carved with a carved wheku head and rauponga decoration. 93 cm length
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Korere (feeding funnel), the front carved with a figure in relief with wheku head with hands placed on thighs, the reverse with a smaller conforming figure. The base of the spout with an avian form head. The surface carved with wheku heads and rauponga and pakura decoration. 14 cm length
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Taiaha (fighting staff), a 20th century example carved in the ngati tarawhai style with rauponga decoration. Together with a tokotoko (walking stick) and three wahaika (hand clubs)
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Patu muka (flax pounder), with overall pecked finish, 25 cm length
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Kahu huruhuru (feather cloak), candlewick and cotton with applied native pigeon and hen feathers, 93 x 113 cm
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Grinding stone and anchor stone (Punga), the grinding stone of light creamy coloured sandstone with two grinding runs, one on each side. Broken and reglued at the centre section. The anchor stone probably a natural stone used to anchor nets. The greywacke stone of tear drop shape with discolouration to the centre section. 35 cm width
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Taniko band, muka kaupapa (foundation) with triangular designs and geometric patterning in back and neutral colouration. 76 cm length.
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Bird bone toggle, 8.5 cm length
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Kete houhere (lacebark bag), a rare kete woven entirely from lacebark, the fringed sides and the aho (weft) coloured purple. 17.5 x 20 cm.
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Pounamu Kura (pendant), rectangular form, perforation to the centre drilled from both sides, 2 x 2.5 cm.
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Pounamu kuru (pendant).
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Toki (adze), Greywacke stone, hammer dressing to the reduced poll section, 22 cm length. .
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A large Colonial kauri gum bust of a Maori chief, carved with ta moko and with a korowai draped over his shoulders, 35 x 30 cm
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Te Ariki wool travel rug, decorated in a tukutuku panel design in green, brown, and white. Original Te Ariki Onehunga Woollen Mills label attached. 153 x 130 cm
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Manatunga wool travel rug, decorated in a tukutuku panel design in black, red, yellow, and white. Original Manatunga Roslyn label attached. 153 x 130 cm
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Te Ariki wool travel rug, decorated in a tukutuku panel design in orange, white, brown and russet. Original Te Ariki Onehunga Woollen Mills label attached. 153 x 130 cm
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A Dominion Museum Education service Maori tattooing box, the presentation cabinet fitted to the interior with a replica mahoe (wooden mallet) uhi (chisel) and pigment pot, together with a cast tattooed mask, a copy of the cast mask made in Rotorua in 1853 for Sir George grey of the tattooed warrior Tapu Te Whanoa of the Ngatiwakaue Hapu of the Arawa tribe, 45 x 55 x 18 cm
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Samuel Charles Brees, plain of the Ruamahunga opening into palisander bay near Wellington, lithographic print, Samuel Charles Brees was the chief surveyor for the New Zealand Company. Another example of this lithograph is held in the collection of the Alexander Turnbull library, 31 x 145 cm
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A taxidermy New Zealand Bittern (Kaoriki), late 19th century. The bird set amongst foliage in a glazed colonial display case. 65 x 42 cm
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Cigar & tobacco box modelled as a wharenui (dwelling), the house front carved with maiki, amo tekoteko, korur and paepae. The lid lifting to reveal a painted tahuhu and heke painted with Kowhaiwhai decoration. The interior with a small fitted cigar box and tobacco container with wheku head. 42 x 30 x 30 cm
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Whalebone hei-tiki, carved with a tilted head with inset paua shell eyes and with hands placed to thighs
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Toki adze blade, Quadrangular shape, chipped to the blade
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A unique Jane Brenkley wine table, made of kauri, the circular top supported on a bobbin turned central support framed by three turned supports on scroll feet with acanthus leaf carving. The top carved and painted with New Zealand native flowers including pohutukawa, puawhananga (bush clematis) kaka beak (clianthus) karaka, kowhai and titoki on a pokerwork ground. Signed Jane Brenkley and dated 1940 possibly to coincide with the New Zealand Centennial exhibition 1840-1940. 55 cm diameter
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A rare and important New Zealand Colonial 'Moa' day bed, the 19th century bed of scrolling form. The totara frame carved with a moa bird head and feathers and with scrolling koru decoration. The legs carved in the form of the legs of a moa with the claws clasping a ball foot. Upholstered in a deep button black leather upholstery. 240 cm length 68 cm width
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A New Zealand Maori design runner carpet, the all-wool pile rug with a tukutuku pattern in dark brown, light brown, black and russet tones. Circa 1960, 3 metres x 70 cm.
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Rare Tattersfield Maori Legend rug, all wool pile, the central field with a tukutuku panel inspired design, framed by a boarder depicting figures with wheku heads with pakati (spiral) designs to the four corners. Original Tattersfield label affixed to the underside. 130 x 68 cm
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Rare Tattersfield Maori Legend rug, all wool pile, decorated in a tukutuku panel inspired design in black, blue red and salmon colours. Some small losses to the fringe. Original Tattersfield label affixed to the underside. 130 x 68 cm
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Fijian neck rest, 19th century, flattened rectangular slightly curved top, raised on triangulated feet with attached sennit cord binding, 46 cm length
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Tongan neck rest (Kali Hahapo), fine 19th century example of elegant arching form. Carved from a single piece of wood with wedge shaped feet, the top inlaid with geometrically shaped cut pearl shell. 46 cm length
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Fijian priest's ritual oil dish (Dari Ni Waiwai Ni Bete), early 19th century, classical spade form, raised on three tapering feet, repair to one foot, 47 x 37 cm
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A large Samoan tapa cloth (Siapo Tasina), 19th century. Decorated with a geometric design and characteristic over-painted dark brown alternating circles, 160 x 160 cm
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A large and impressive Malekula Island Grade ceremony figure (Temes nevimbure), the over modelled tree fern figure painted in orange and black pigment with cylindrical eyes and extended nose, 194 x 42 cm
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A fine Fijian tapa cloth, early 19th century example decorated with complex geometric patterns in alternating bands of black, white and brown, 86 x 127 cm
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A Marshall Islands stick Navigational chart, square shape with applied cowrie shells, 40 x 40 cm
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A coconut shell basket collected by Reverend Williams
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Two Aboriginal boomerangs and a digging stick
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Gilbert and Ellis Island coconut wood club, pierced at the handle and with attached sennit cord. 79 cm length
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Two Aboriginal boomerangs
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Boomerang, and carved board, the club with bulbous head and incised grip to the shaft and grip section
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A large Solomon Islands canoe model, the interior carved with a bonito shark modelled in high relief. Inlaid extensively with nautilus shell, 94 cm length
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Trobriand Island pigment pot and a Sepik River pigment pot
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A Solomon Islands ceremonial offering bowl, the blackened oblong bowl carved with a figure in relief with outstretched arms to each side. The underside carved with a mask in low relief. Traces of white pigment across the surface of the bowl. 45 cm length
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Two Papua New Guinea Sepik River Region bowls, Blackened wood of oval shape with carved handles to each end with geometric carved decoration
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Micronesian hardwood food bowl, early 19th century example with a scalloped rim raised on a circular foot. 23 cm diameter
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A large Solomon Island's feast platter, Blackened wood of flattened oval shape with a single lug handle, 100 x 41 cm
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Papua New Guinea Sepik River Region bowl, 19th century of stylised avian form raised on four cylindrical feet. Together with a dance rattle made from seed husks strung on woven plant fibre.
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Fijian kava bowl, the hardwood circular bowl with incised pattern to the boarder and with pierced stylised turtle head lug to one side, raised on three tapering cylindrical legs. 46 cm diameter
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Two Fijian rain wood food bowls. Two Fijian rain wood food bowls, each inlaid with pearl shell decoration
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A Fijian tapa cloth, 19th century example decorated with geometric designs in alternating bands of black and white. Framed and mounted in a display case. 72 x 200 cm
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Papua New Guinea ceremonial Sepik River Region figure, 140 cm height, 42 cm wide
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A pair of coconut wood Paddles, each with leaf shaped blade and slender cylindrical shaft, 168 cm length
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A Papua New Guinea Abelam yam mask, 31 x 22 cm
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Solomon Island golden lipped pearl shell pendant, crescent shape with an attached carved tortoiseshell frigate bird held on a cut red shell necklace
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Fijian root stock war club (Vunikau), late 19th century. The large heavy club with cylindrical shaft with incised zig-zag grip, the head with projecting nubs formed from the rootstock of a tree, 110 cm length.
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Fijian Gunstock war club (Gatawaka), late 19th century. The head surmounted by a medial ridge and with sennit fibre running the length of the cylindrical shaft, rich brown patina. 74 cm length
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A 19th century Fijian sperm whale tooth (tabua), with a plaited sennit fibre suspension cord
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Fijian pearl shell pendant together with a boar's tusk pendant, each held on sennit cord
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Tongan tapa cloth section, 160 x 180 cm
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A collection of four Pacific Island clubs
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Papua New Guinea Sepik River food bowl, oval shape, together with another bowl, a spatula and a carved gourd.
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A large Trobriand Islands feast bowl, coconut wood decorated with incised spirals and geometric designs to the outer boarder. 80 x 45 cm
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Two Trobriand Island bowls, one carved in the form of a fish and the other with pierced incised boarder inlaid with pearl shell
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Two Solomon Island lime containers, each inlaid with shell decoration, one carved with two opposing heads the other with two outward facing figures
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