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Maori, Oceanic, African, and Asian Art — Dunbar Sloane Ltd.

Auction House:Dunbar Sloane Ltd.Number of lots recorded:319
Sale Title:Maori, Oceanic, African, and Asian ArtLots with images:317
Auction Location:WellingtonPrices available:264
Date:7-Dec-2021
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Pounamu kapeu (ear pendant), Kawakawa variety nephrite with countersunk suspension hole, 15 cm length.
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Rare and unusual bone kaka poria (bird leg ring), 3 cm length.
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A bone harpoon tip and worked piece of bone.
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Two bone awls.
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Awls bone Awl, 8 cm length.
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Bone Awl and a worked piece of bone
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Five bone Awls
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Bone Awl, 7 cm.
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Bone Awl
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Bone Awl, 10 cm length.
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Bone Awl and a worked piece of bone
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A section of a two piece bone fish hook, 7.5 cm length.
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Section of a bone heru (comb), 5.5 x 3 cm
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Two bone spear tips.
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Three iron fish hooks made from ship's nails.
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Six copper fish hooks made from ship's nails.
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An iron fish hook made from a ship's nail, 9 cm length.
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A rare moa hunter Silcrete knife, 9 cm length.
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A worked Obsidian core section
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A good pounamu hei tiki, contact period with head tilted to right shoulder and with cut paua shell eyes and hourglass suspension hole, modelled with lightly delineated three fingered hands placed to thighs, 10 x 8 cm. Provenance; Arthur Beau Palmer collection
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Pre-European toki (adze blade), Argillite, polished finish, chip to the blade edge, 14 cm length
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An unusual whalebone pendant, tapering rectangular shape, pieced for suspension, length 8.5 cm
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Small pounamu pendant, pale green nephrite, flat irregular teardrop shape with countersunk suspension hole, length 6 cm.
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Two bone toggles, together with a small chisel and a bone fishhook shank
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Maripi (shark tooth knife) by Rangi Redman, carved in the traditional style with manaia forms with inset paua shell eyes. The handle terminating in a wheku head. Complete with eleven shark teeth, length 42 cm. Provenance: Buried village collection
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Cloak) Korowai (Maori cloak), woven from candlewick with a coloured cotton boarder. Decorated with multicolored hen feathers, 75 x 75 cm
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Large toki (adze blade), Argillite, elongated quadrangular shape, polished finish, 26 cm length
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Mere pounamu nephrite hand club by Alan brown (ngati Ruaka), fine 20th century example. Kawakawa variety stone with gracefully tapering blade. The handle pierced in the traditional manner with a countersunk suspension hole, 40 cm length
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Wakahuia (treasure box), the top carved with two manaia figures in low relief, each with inset pau shell eyes, the sides decorated with rauponga, 47 x 15 cm
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Toki (adze blade), tapering quadrangular shape, pecked and polished finish, small chips to the blade, 20 cm length
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Toki (adze blade), Greywacke, tapering quadrangular shape with triangulated blade section, 13 cm length
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Two toki (adze blades), Argillite, chips to the blade of one, 12 and 12.5 cm length.
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Toki (adze blade), Argillite with brown inclusions in the stone, tapering quadrangular shape, pecked and polished finish, 17 cm length
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Toki (adze blade), Argillite, tapering quadrangular shape, pecked and polished finish, 15 cm length.
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Toki (adze blade), Argillite, tapering quadrangular shape with narrow blade section, 18 cm length.
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Toki (adze blade), Argillite, tapering quadrangular shape, polished finish, small chip to the blade, 12 cm length.
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Two toki (adze blades), 14 cm and 11 cm length
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Five toki (adze blades), chips to the blades and surface of each
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Toki (adze blade), Argillite, polished finish, 14 cm length.
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Pounamu kuru pendant, Kawakawa variety nephrite with countersunk suspension hole, 6 cm length
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Horn bottle carved as a Maori figure wearing a korowai, 16 cm height
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Pre- European toki (adze blade), dark black argillite, tapering quadrangular shape, pecked and flaked water worn surface, 19 cm length
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Pre- European toki (adze blade), Argillite stone, unusual square form blade reducing to the pole section. The blade polished, the pole section pecked and flaked, 19 cm length
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Pre-European toki (adze blade), Green/grey stone, tapering quadrangular shape, polished blade section then hammer pecked to the back front and sides, chipped to the blade, 21 cm length
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Pre-European toki (adze blade), Argillite with white streaks through the stone, tapering quadrangular shape, angled to the pole section. Polished finish with hammer pecking to the sides, 21 cm length
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Pre-European toki (adze blade) three Pre- European toki (adze blades), one water polished, the other two showing considerable damage
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Large and impressive hog back type dark green volcanic stone, polished to the blade on top and bottom the rest hammer pecked, 27 cm length.
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Louis Auguste de Sainson, Nouvelle - Zelande, two 19th century hand coloured lithographs, each with some surface discoloration, 49 x 32 cm
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Louis Auguste de Sainson and de Lemercier, Nouvelle-Zelande (plate 70) and Nouvelle-Hollande/ Nouvelle- Zelande (plate 36), two 19th century hand coloured lithographs, some foxing and surface discoloration, 53 x 34 cm
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Edmond-Francois Paris Laurent,Pierre Langlume, Nouvelle Zelande, Pirogue de la baie Tolaga (plate 60), 19th century French hand coloured lithograph, 54 x 35 cm
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Te Ariki wool travel rug, decorated in a tukutuku inspired panel design in black, red, white and orange on a yellow ground, original Te Ariki Onehunga Woollen Mills chiefs head label attached. In superb original condition, 153 x 130 cm
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Te Ariki wool travel rug, decorated in a tukutuku inspired panel design in brown, yellow, white and green, original Te Ariki Onehunga Woollen Mills chiefs head label attached. In superb original condition, 153 x 130 cm
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Manatunga wool travel rug, decorated in a geometric tukutuku inspired panel design in white, green, blue and black, original label attached, 153 x 130 cm
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Manatunga wool travel rug, decorated in a geometric tukutuku inspired panel design in red, green, black and white, original label attached, 153 x 138 cm
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Rare Tattersfield Maori Legend rug, all wool pile, decorated in a tukutuku panel inspired design in black, red, blue and salmon colours. Superb original condition, 130 x 68 cm
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Rare Tattersfield Maori Legend rug, all wool pile with a hei-tiki and a waka with Maori warriors on a grey ground with a tukutuku inspired design and a Kowhaiwhai pattern boarder. Inscribed Haremai NZ and Arawa canoe. Small threadbare patch to the upper section, 130 x 68 cm
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Louis Auguste de Sainson, Observatoire de L'Astrolabe (plate 46), 19th century French hand coloured lithograph, 34 x 53 cm
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An unusual New Zealand Arts & Crafts jewellery box, the copper box with inlaid enamel top with wheku heads and koru designs. The sides and front with silver inlaid Kowhaiwhai inspired scrolling decoration. The four cantered corners with cast and engraved ancestral figures with wheku heads. The wooden lined interior with two compartments. The box raised on circular brass feet. 17 cm width 9 cm height
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Sperm whale tooth, from the Tory channel whaling station in the Marlborough Sounds, 17 cm length
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Sperm whale tooth, from the Tory channel whaling station in the Marlborough Sounds, 16 cm length
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A good Jane Brenkley vase, ovoid shape. Carved and painted with a Maori women with a dog wearing a piupiu, adorned with a hei-tiki and holding a flax kete.The reverse with a waka with a figure on a river. Some surface abrasions. Signed and dated 1945
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A large and impressive Jane Brenkley vase, ovoid shape, carved and painted with two kaka nesting in a Kowhaiwhai tree, unsigned. 46 cm height
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A polished whale's tooth, engraved Faial, surmounted by a small caved model of a whale 12 cm length
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An impressive Megalodon fossil shark tooth, the Megalodon shark was one of the most fearsome ocean predators, reaching lengths of over 50 feet. The gigantic shark lived approximately 15.9 to 2.6 million years ago. This large fossil tooth was found in the Charlestown river. 10 cm length
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A good pair of 19th century powder horns, one engraved with a pair of ladies in period dress, a lady on horse back and a group of Maori warriors greeting missionaries, inscribed Landing of Missionaries. The other with ladies in period dress and a Maori war party, inscribed Maori war dance, length of each 42 cm
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A rare Maori Apples brand apple crate label, decorated with an image of an apple with a portrait image of King Tawhiao, 12 x 24 cm
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Arthur James Iles (attributed), impressive large format black and white photograph of guide Sophia sitting smoking pipe in front of a carved Amo. Inscribed Sophia. In the original oak frame, 34 x 27 cm
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A rare Charles Troughton Clark portrait photograph, Maori women with child on her back, the women with moko to the chin and with scarf on her head, smoking a pipe, signed C Troughton Clark, Rotorua. Albumen print, 29 x 24 cm, a similar image but of smaller size is held in the collection of the National library
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Charles Troughton Clark Maori portrait photograph, Paramount chief Mita Taupopoki, Rotorua, circa 1930, albumen print, signed to the mount and titled verso, 21 x 16 cm
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Charles Troughton Clark Maori portrait photo, Tai Numea wearing a kahu kiwi (kiwi feather cloak), albumen print. Signed on the face and titled verso, 16 cm x 11 cm
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A rare Charles Troughton Clark portrait photo of Jean Batten, the image taken during a visit to Rotorua in the 1930s. Jean Batten photographed standing in front of an amo wearing a Korowai with hukahuka thrums, adorned with a hei tiki and holding a patu paraoa (whalebone hand club), 20 x 16 cm. Provenance: Private Collection Auckland, Sold by Webb's auctions in 1994
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Portraits of Tattooed warrior chiefs of New Zealand, from the Millard collection. The book containing nine photographic prints of important Maori chiefs
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Artefacts gelatin silver print Arthur James IIes, ancient Maori artefacts: depicting taonga from the Auckland Museum collection including a Patoromu Tamatea kumete, gelatin silver print in a ebonised frame, 20 x `15 cm
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A Kuba mask Democratic Republic of Congo, the oval face painted with geometric patterns and with circular pierced eyes. Elaborately woven coiffure with attached feathers, 38 x 24 cm
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A monkey mask Cameroon, oval face with distended chin and pieced almond shaped eyes. Pigment painted in red and black with elongated woven coiffure, 32 x 21 cm
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Nigeran mask, oval facial plane with extended forehead, pierced almond shaped eyes with lips parted showing teeth. Exhibiting a thoughtful pensive expression. Pigment painted in brown and white. The mask pieced to the outer edge.
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West African mask, Pieced almond form eyes and open mouth. The face highlighted with bands of white pigment, 26 x 14 cm
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West African mask, ebonised oval face with wide pieced almond shaped eyes and open mouth, tapering fin shaped coiffure, 41 x 23 cm
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Kuba mask Democratic Republic of Congo, extended oval shape with almond slit eyes highlighted in white pigment . Asymmetrical placement of the eyes and ears combined with the geometric pigment painted pattern across the surface creates a hypnotic effect in the facial plane. Irregular piercing through the face. Woven raffia coiffure.
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Songye Bwandi Kifwebe mask Kenya, the large decorative mask with hooded downcast eyes and large central fin. Painted in bands of white orange and black, 58 x 17 cm
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Songye tribe Bantu ethnic group, Democratic Republic of Congo wooden shield, the oval waisted shield with small mask carved in relief and with painted and incised bands in white, red and black, 67 x 32 cm
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Rare Bongo tribe funerary post Bahr-el-Ghazal Province, south Sudan, the post surmounted by a carved mask, 128 cm height
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A large and impressive Cameroon Bamileke beaded helmet mask, the headdress section centered by a crocodile carved in low relief flanked by carved masks framed by robustly carved figures. The expressive face with bulbous eyes above an open mouth baring teeth. The mask embellished with multi coloured beads
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Chokwe mask Angola, oval shape with pierced almond shaped eyes, open mouth barring teeth, scarification to checks and forehead. Elaborate raffia woven coiffure, 23 x 14 cm
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A Yaka fetish power figure Democratic Republic of Congo, the carved wood standing figure with fabric binding from the neck to the legs. The bound fabric containing feathers and other power items used in protection rituals, 21 cm
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A Teke fetish power figure Democratic Republic of Congo, the standing figure with scarification to the face and with cloth binding from the neck to the legs containing feathers and other items, 23 cm height
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An ivory coast Dan mask, with circular pieced eyes and with fibre hair attachments. Raised on a fitted stand, 24 x 15 cm
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A Luba head rest Democratic Republic of Congo, 14 cm height
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A large and decorative African ivory coast wall hanging, hand painted with abstract figures and animals, 210 x 125 cm
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Pende mask Democratic Republic of Congo, with high forehead and triangulated face with downcast eyes and open mouth barring teeth and woven raffia coiffure, 26 x 20 cm
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Chokwe mask Angola, with pierced downcast eyes and open mouth. Incised lineal carving to the coiffure, 36 x 23
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An East African figure, the standing embellished with coloured beads, 32 cm height
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Dan mask Libera, with oval face with pierced circular eyes and attached raffia embellished with cowrie shells, seeds and metal bells, 41 x 33 cm
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Hemba fly Whisk Democratic Republic of the Congo, carved Janus face handle and with attached horse hair, 50 cm length
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A Hemba fertility figure Democratic Republic of Congo, the standing naked figure with angular face with hands placed on the breasts. Embellished with a strand of yellow beads, 26 cm height
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A Dan mask Libera, hollowed form with pointed chin below an open mouth. Circular pierced disc eyes and with piercings to the chin. Tightly woven coiffure, 20 x 13 cm
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West African mask, pierced oval eyes highlighted in white pigment and with carved incised lineal carving to the coiffure
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A Baule Slingshot Cote d'Ivorie, the handle modeled as a naked female figure, 25 cm length
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A Bambara mask Mali, with high forehead and downcast eyes. The oval face with applied riveted patterned cut brass plate, 25 x 20 cm
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A good Bena Lulua figure, the standing figure with elongated oval face, rich surface patina. Raised on an ebonised plinth 18 cm height, Provenance: Sold in Sotheby's Oceanic and African sale Sydney 1996.
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