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New Collectors Maori, Oceanic and African Art — Dunbar Sloane Ltd.

Auction House:Dunbar Sloane Ltd.Number of lots recorded:394
Sale Title:New Collectors Maori, Oceanic and African ArtLots with images:393
Auction Location:WellingtonPrices available:296
Date:6-Apr-2023
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Fossil Dinosaur egg, 9 cm length
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An African fetish figure, carved wood with bone, tusk, fiber and shell embellishments. Attached binding, 23 cm height
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Very large toki roughout, Poll end broken away, tapering form, 31 cm x 16 cm
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Spherical hammer stone, 3 cm diameter.
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A large Pre-European toki, Flaked and hammer dressed, 23 cm length.
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A Pre-European toki, Flaked and hammer dressed, 22 cm length.
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A Pre-European toki, Flaked with two-sided bevel, 10.5 cm length.
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A Pre-European toki, hammer dressed with polished blade, 17 cm length.
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A Pre-European toki, hammer dressed, uneven underside, incipient tang, 22 cm length.
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A Minnow lure Shank, 7.5 cm length.
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A toki roughout, pecked throughout, 20 cm length.
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A Pre-European toki, polished with some flaking to the poll section, 12 cm length.
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A toki and moa bone, 16 cm length.
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A Pre-European toki, one with a broken poll, 10.5 cm, 9.5 cm length.
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Worked pounamu (Kawakawa), 10 cm length.
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Strap-Toothed whale fossil tooth, 5 cm length
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Three large Palaeo artifacts from France, Scrappers and a hand axe from the Acheulian period
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Two ancient Indian hand tools - Georgia USA
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A collection of Neolithic quartz and stone Beads
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A collection of Indian stone adze and chisels from Panama
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Paleolithic hand axe from Morocco
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Two Pacific adze and a Chisel
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A collection of fossil fish and Shells
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A collection of land snail shells from Mokinui West Coast
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Ancient barbed arrow points from Northern Mali and Burkina Faso
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Indian arrow heads from Panama
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Danish Mesolithic Fint Blade/Drill
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Three Roman Socketed bronze arrow Points
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A Roman fire lighter and a Cooper arrow head from Peru
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Three African iron age rat tail spear Points
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Three Aboriginal worked Stone
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A Neanderthal hand axe and three mammoth tooth Fossils
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A large mahe (sinker), 12 cm length
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Three Neolithic Celt Axe/Hammerstone Tool
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Aboriginal adze from Tasmania
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Two ventifacts from Antarctica
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Native American arrow Heads
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Seven stone age arrow Heads
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A collection of Neolithic tools and Beads
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Three Azde Roughouts from French Polynesia
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An ammonite from the Paleozoic era, 11 cm length
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Two Neolithic Celt Axes from the Saharan Aqualithic period, 13 cm length
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A Paleolithic hand axe from Morocco, 12 cm length
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A Byzantine Christian clay oil lamp 5th century AD, 11 cm length
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An ancient terracotta oil lamp, 9 cm Length
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Two worked Aerte Boelle stone from Denmark
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A group of Miscellaneous items, a greenstone adze, copper ships nails, musket flints from Antigua.
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A Papua New Guinea hair comb with boar tusk body adornment, carved wood comb with two wrist cuffs and a pendant.
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A Ramu River mask and cassowary bone Dagger
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Papua New Guinea mask, 33 cm length
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Turkana/Gabbra Tribes large milk container, wood, leather, 1950s, Provenance: Owen Mapp collection, 20 cm height, 19 cm diameter
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Turkana/Gabbra Tribes milk container, wood, leather, 1950s, Provenance: Owen Mapp collection, 21 cm height
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Horn bottle carved as a Maori figure, wearing a korowai, 16 cm height
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Solomon Islands monkey figure, right leg damaged and repaired, 56 cm height
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Papua New Guinea Sepik River figure, the standing figure with over modeled clay face with orange painted pigment decoration, adorned with shell and plaited raffia, 48 cm height
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Maori doll (mixed media), 30 cm length
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Large mahe (sinker) and three toki fragments
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Two Pre-European toki, 9.5 cm, 12 cm length.
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Worked pounamu, 7 cm length.
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New Britian Papua New Guinea figure, 88 cm height
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19th century brass Currency/Anklet Ekonda, Kuta Kota tribes, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Cast from heavy brass, 25 cm length
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Mancarla game board, Kenya, well used with good surface patina, 64 x 15 cm
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A tewhatewha, carved wood with feather and shell adornment, 137 cm height
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An assortment of tribal bladed items and medicine containers (15 pieces), including; 5 knives, 3 spear heads, digging stick, 3 medicine containers, betel nut necklace.
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Two African Sheathed knives and a hand axe, 34 cm, 34 cm, 24 cm length
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Wood and leather horn, the center section with a carved figure in relief with distended stomach, attributed to the Zaramo tribe, Tanzania, 102 cm length
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A Pre-European toki, argillite, flakes to blade, 13.5 cm length.
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Three Papua New Guinea artefacts, a hafted adze, an adze blade, and a New Britain stone mace head of a warclub.
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Patu muka (flax root beater), 23 cm length.
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Sepik River carved wood water vessel, Papua New Guinea, 36 cm height
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A Papua New Guinea adze (Poll broken away), 18 cm length
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Three carved pou Whakairo figures with Tiki
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Maori carved clock case with Figure
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Carved wheku lamp base with pou Whakairo
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Five pou Whakairo
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Four carved Figures
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Carved Maori desk-top inkwell, including inlaid paua
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Two carved boxes with clock case, 12 x 14 x 6 cm
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Carved ebonised patu with huia commemorative plate and two others, huia plate measurements - 32 cm
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Carved mask with pou Whakairo
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Two carved pou Whakairo
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Carved wheku head, with paua inlaid eyes
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Multifaceted carving of tiki and wheku head with pou Whakairo, 31 cm height
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Resin Maori figure, 34 cm height
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Wheku head door Knocker
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Hand-Painted Winton Maoriland bowl, hairline crack to the rim.
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Tangata Lincoln Pioneer port with NZ beam Kentucky Bourbon bottle
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Maori carved mask mounted on parquetry Board
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Two African Art reference books, African Art by Virginia Museum of fine Arts and masks of black Africa by Ladislas Segy
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Png story Board
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Two cast standing Maori figures, 36 cm, 35 cm height
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Two pou Whakairo figures, 35 cm, 31 cm height
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A folk Art gourd, with incised Maori motifs
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Two Pre-European toki, tapering quadrangular forms, polls uneven, one with hammer dressed laterals, the other with a small amount of flaking to the edges of the upper section, 12 cm, 10 cm.
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A Papua New Guinea lime spatula, carved wood. Chip to blade, 60 cm length
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A Papua New Guinea drum, incised decoration with kaolin pigment and handle, 64 cm length
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Three Pre-European toki, 18 cm; 16 cm; 12 cm length.
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Four Pre-European toki, various stone, 14 cm; 11 cm; 10 cm; 6 cm length. .
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Two Pre-European toki (argillite), 15 cm; 13 cm length
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Two Pre-European toki (volcanic stone), both with pecking to the surface and rudimentary tangs, 22 cm; 18 cm length.
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