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Tribal Art, Featuring The Webster Collection Part IV — Dunbar Sloane Ltd.

Auction House:Dunbar Sloane Ltd.Number of lots recorded:206
Sale Title:Tribal Art, Featuring The Webster Collection Part IVLots with images:177
Auction Location:AucklandPrices available:159
Date:5-Dec-2011
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18th century rare Maori fish hook (matau) wooden shank that is extended to form the point limb with a short barbed bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 11 cm (excluding line)
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18th century rare Maori fish hook (matau). Dark wooden shank that is extended to form the point limb, no point. Carved spirals on the shank. Lashed snood, no line. Length 19 cm
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Late 18th century Maori composite hook. Wooden shank limb with a large serrated barbed bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 12 cm (excluding line)
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Early 19th century Maori fishing hook metal 'U' shaped point with lashed snood, line has broken off. Length 13 cm (excluding line)
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Early 19th century contact period Maori trolling fish hook (pa kahawai). Metal shank and point with paua shell laminate. Lashed snood and line. Length 11 cm (excluding line) 5
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Contact period Maori trolling fish hook (pa kahawai). Wooden shank, paua shell laminate, inner barbed bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 9.5 cm
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Late 18th century composite fishing hook. Full bodied wooden shank limb with lashed small barbed bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 14 cm6
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Contact period Maori trolling fish hook (pa kahawai). Wooden shank, paua shell laminate. Inner barbed bone point. Some feather fibre fragments in lashed snood point. Lashed snood and small portion of line. Length 9 cm (excluding line)
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Contact period Maori trolling fish hook (pa kahawai). Wooden shank, paua shell laminate, inner barbed bone point. Lashed snood, no line. Length 10 cm
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Rare pre-European Maori barracuda hook (Okooko). Straight large shank with a serrated bone point. An antero-posterior hole is in the shank where the line goes through and runs along a groove. Length 13 cm.
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Contact period Maori trolling fish hook (pa kahawai). Wooden shank, paua shell laminate, inner barbed bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 11 cm (excluding line)
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Rare early contact period Maori fishing sinker. Brown stone with rope groove and rope attached both ends. Length 4 cm of sinker3
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Partial early contact period Maori trolling fish hook (pa kahawai). This hook has no wooden shank so is therefore an older pa kahawai as Maori figured out that paua shell alone was too thin to form strong shanks that could cope with the strain. No point lashed snood and line. Length 5 cm (excluding line)
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Late 18th century period Maori composite shark hook. Wooden shank limb with serrated and inner barbed bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 11 cm (excluding line) 8
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Early contact period Maori trolling fish hook (pa kahawai). Wooden shank, paua shell laminate, inner barbed bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 13 cm (excluding line)
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Contact period Maori shark hook. Metal 'U' shaped point lashed with flax fibre snood and line. Length 17 cm (excluding line)
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Very rare and important pre-European stone carved Maori stone God sinker (mahe) or ballast stone, with carved double tiki figures. Pre European 17/18th century.of exceptional quality and superior to those in the British Museum, these fishing sinkers are extremely rare and their importance is shown by Te Papa putting one on their front cover of 'Toi Ora, ancestral Maori Treasures' book. Width 11 cm, height 11 cm
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Rare pre European Maori stone carved God stone sinker (mahe) or Ballast stone, circa 17th to 18th century.two lobed sinker with old hour glass shaped hole and beautifully carved figure on top. Found on Rangitoto Island about 1900 by John Jessop Snr, Jessop was interested in salt mines. Height 7 cm, width 9 cm
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Extremley old and rare 17th century Maori wooden canoe prow (Tauihu). Stone carved with Maniaia profile head. Length 47 cm, height 9.5 cm
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Contact period Maori greenstone adze. Good quality stone, some small chips to sides. Length 32 cm
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Early contact period Maori fishing sinker. White stone/quartz? with rope groove and rope attached both ends. Length 6 cm of sinker
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Contact period Maori trolling fish hook (pa kahawai). Wooden shank, paua shell laminate, inner barbed bone point. Lashed snood, no line. Length 9 cm
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Contact period Maori trolling fish hook (pa kahawai). Wooden shank, paua shell laminate. Lashed snood and line. Inner barbed bone point. Length 9 cm (excluding line)
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Rare contact period Maori trolling fish hook (pa kahawai). This hook has no wooden shank and is therefore an older pa kahawai. Serrated paua point. Lashed snood and line. Length 11 cm (excluding line)
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Rare contact period Maori trolling fish hook (pa kahawai). This hook has no wooden shank and is therefore an older pa kahawai. Paua point. Lashed snood and line. Length 7 cm (excluding line)
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Contact period Maori trolling fish hook (pa kahawai). Wooden shank, paua shell laminate. Inner barbed bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 10.5 cm (excluding line)
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Contact period Maori trolling fish hook (pa kahawai). Wooden shank, paua shell laminate. Inner barbed bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 10 cm (excluding line)
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Late 18th century Maori one-piece fish hook, made of one piece of wood. Length 10 cm
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Early contact period Maori one-piece 'U' shaped bone fishing hook. Width 4 cm0
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Late 18th century period Maori composite fish hook. Wooden shank limb with serrated and inner barbed bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 8 cm (excluding line)
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Contact period Maori trolling hook (pa kahawai) dark wooden shank, paua shell laminate, inner barbed bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 12 cm (excluding line)
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Unique and rare Maori trolling fish hook (pa kahawai). Bone shank, paua shell laminate, inner and outer barbed bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 12 cm (excluding line)
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Contact period Maori bone one-piece 'U' shaped hook, with outer serrations. Width 6.5 cm9
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Early contact period Maori bone one piece U' shaped hook with inner and outer barbed point and all over outer serrations. Found in Waimarama in the Chatham Islands. Length 3 cm Webster No. 1247
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Early contact period Maori shell one piece 'U' shaped hook with inner barbed point. Found in Waimarama in the Chatham Islands. Length 3 cm Webster No. 1248
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Extremley rare 17th/18th century greenstone mere, with no ridges in the butt. This was typical of 16th/17th century Pre European meres. Ridge butts were really a decoration that came in the 1700's onwards). Nice dark green colour with waves of lighter green. Length 29 cm
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Contact period Maori trolling fish hook (pa kahawai). Wooden shank, paua shell laminate, with metal point. Lashed snood, no line. Length 10 cm
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Early contact period hafted adze. Very dark brown stone adze attached to wooden haft with flax fibre lashing, the toe has a transverse groove for the lashing. Length 48 cm. Y1213, Y1214
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19th century rare wooden Jacob Heberley pipe. beautifully carved with two reclining tattooed Maori males lying back to back on either side of bowl with paua shell inset eyes. Length 13.5 cm
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Extremley rare and unique pre European 16th century God stone carved flax beater butt. Made of volcanic stone with a carved face of a dog on the butt which is almost Easter Island style. It would have been a huge pounder, there is a similar one in the British Museum, no. 585, plate 110, 'Taonga Maori in the British Museum'. Length 15 cm
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Late 18th/19th century Maori whalebone mere (patu paraoa), with four ridges to butt. Length 36 cm Y1218
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Beautiful contact period Maori greenstone mere. Good quality greenstone with feathering of white. Nice hour glass hole and three ridges to butt. Length 36 cm
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Late 18th century Maori stone Patu (Onewa). Thick body and good grip to handle. Carved spiral ridged butt. Excellent hour glass hole, greenish tinge to the stone. Length 34.5 cm
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Contact period early 19th century Maori greenstone Hei-tiki. Dark greenstone with light flecks, thick body, right hand on chest. Red sealing wax in the eyes and hour glass shaped hole Provenance: Purchased in Christies London, 23/4/76, Lot 170. Length 11 cm, width 6.5 cm
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19th century stone fishing anchor. Heavy with hole for rope, the anchor was used by Maori
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Cased huia bird feather. Feathers were stuck into the topknot by their quills, the tail feathers of the huia were regarded as the most valuable and were kept in waka huia treasure boxes, the huia bird is now extinct. Length 20 cm of feather
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Late 19th/early 20th century whare frame, four sections carved in kauri planks, central Koruru (with damage) and two Maihi barge boards, two Amo boards and gable head. Length 53 cm, 3.65m x 2, 2.48m x 2. Provenance: originally the frontage of Mr McDonald's house in Picton. Carved for a Rangitane elder
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Contact period Maori trolling fish hook (pa kahawai). Wooden shank, paua shell laminate, inner barbed bone point. Lashed snood, no line. Length 11 cm
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Contact period c. 1830's Maori wooden Taiaha, fighting staff. Nicely carved tongue. One paua shell eye on each side. Length 158 cm
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18th and 19th century Maori bone items, comprising needles and spear tips
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Three bone sections from Maori fishing hooks.
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19th century Maori fishing line. Twisted flax fibre fishing line
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Huia bird feather. Feathers were stuck into the topknot by their quills, the tail feathers of the huia were regarded as the most valuable and were kept in waka huia treasure boxes, the huia bird is now extinct. Length 20 cm
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Huia bird feather. Feathers were stuck into the hair topknot by their quills, the tail feathers of the huia were regarded as the most valuable and were kept in waka huia treasure boxes, the huia bird is now extinct. Length 20 cm
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Early 19th century Maori bone shank from a trolling hook, with hour glass hole and bevelled end. Length 8 cm7
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Early 19th century Maori stone partial fishing shank. Length 6.5 cm
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Three Maori greenstone adzes. One has a good cutting edge. Length 10.5 cm, 9 cm, 7.5 cm
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Beautiful large greenstone mere ''contact period' c.1,800, the colour is superb with blacks flecks throughout. A small ridge line is visible. Length 40.5 cm, width 11.5 cm
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Two Maori greenstone adzes. Both have good cutting edges both length 7 cm
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Two Maori greenstone adzes and two obsidian scrapers. Both scrapers are originally from the Edward Armytage collection, they would have been used for scraping flax or scaling fish. Length 4.5 cm, 5.2 cm. Both adzes have good cutting edges
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Contact period Maori stone pendant. a frosted milky light green coloured stone. Length 5.5 cm
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Contact period Maori greenstone pendant. Translucent greenstone with hour glass suspension hole. Length 6 cm
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Two contact period Maori greenstone chisels. One has a worn/broken suspension hole. Length 7.5 cm, 6 cm
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C. 1870's period Maori greenstone adze. Note underneath: 'H.N. Moseley. New Zealand Jade. Worked By Natives. Commencement of a Carving' H.N. Moseley was a naturalist aboard 'The Challenger' that sailed around the world in 1872-1876. Length 7.5 cm
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Contact period Maori stone adze. Good cutting edge. Length 7 cm
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Contact period Maori greenstone adze. This greenstone has amber/golden shades. Length 11.2 cm
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Contact period Maori greenstone adze. This greenstone has milky green and golden shades. Length 9.5 cm
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Pre European late 18th century pre European important Maori greenstone hei tiki. Lovely stone carved greenstone with two hour glass suspension holes, one worn/broken. Rounded fat belly Purchased by Dr. G. F. hoessly in 1965 from one of his medical colleagues at the University of California medical school, L.A, the colleague was about to give his collection to the Los Angeles County Museum but offered Dr hoessly the opportunity to buy a couple of items. Dr hoessly was told the tiki he chose came from the…
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Contact period Maori greenstone adze. Smooth greenstone with good cutting edge. Length 15 cm
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Rare and superb 18th century stone carved wooden God figure section of a Teko Teko dark carved wood and the figure has a protruding tongue Note: the top of the head was carved recently and is not 18th century.but was placed on to give the full effect of how it should look. Height 33.8 cm
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20th century Maori greenstone hei tiki. C. 1920 stone carved translucent greenstone, red sealing wax has been added to the eyes. Hour glass suspension hole. Length 6.5 cm
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19th century Maori greenstone adze. Damaged cutting edge. Length 12 cm
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20th century Maori whalebone Haircomb (Heru Iwi). Carved Mania figure with paua shell eye. Length 18.5 cm
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20th century whalebone Maori hafted adze. Greenstone adze lashed to whalebone shaft and foot. Intrically carved with Mania, tiki and lizard figures. Length 40 cm
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20th century bone Maori cloakpin (Au Rei). Length 10 cm
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Early 19th century Maori wooden digging stick (kaheru). This kaheru is shaped like a small paddle Would have been found in a swamp. Length 82 cm
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20th century Maori greenstone scraper. Used for scraping flax. Length 10 cm
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20th century whalebone Maori digging stick (Ko). This ko has a flat rounded blade and a lashed carved step. Length 170 cm
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Huia bird feather. Feathers were stuck into the hair topknot by their quills, the tail feathers of the huia were regarded as the most valuable and were kept in waka huia treasure boxes, the huia bird is now extinct length 14.5 cm
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Huia bird feather. Feathers were stuck into the hair topknot by their quills, the tail feathers of the huia were regarded as the most valuable and were kept in waka huia treasure boxes, the huia bird is now extinct This lot also comes with a 3 cm huia breast feather length 14.5 cm
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Airtu Ahwito (Fungus). Considered sacred and used as an indelible dye in tattooing. Burnt to a cinder and mixed with dog fat and soot. What ever remained after each use was carefully preserved and handed down from father to Son. Length 16 cm no Y number needed
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Airtu Ahwito. Considered sacred and used as an indelible dye in tattooing. Burnt to a cinder and mixed with dog fat and soot. What ever remained after each use was carefully preserved and handed down from father to Son Note: it is missing the stick with the fungus on it. Length 6 cm no Y number needed
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Airtu Ahwito (Fungus). Considered sacred and used as an indelible dye in tattooing. Burnt to a cinder and mixed with dog fat and soot. What ever remained after each use was carefully preserved and handed down from father to Son Note: it is missing the stick with the fungus on it. Length 18.5 cm no Y number needed
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Important and beautiful kiwi feather cloak (kahu kiwi). Note: Rangi Te Kanawa (Te Papa conservator) described it as the best cloak in existence and significantly better than the Maori Queens, the wefting is very fine and was unquestionably made by a very skilled group of Maori cloak makers
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Late 19th century Maori food bowl (kumete). Two stone carved Maori figures holding the bowl, tiki faces are carved on either side of the bowl and there are four tiki faces on the lid all with paua shell inset eyes, the kumete has rauru (an elliptical centre and the spirals are formed of triple ridges separated by a beaded line) double spirals all over. From the estate of Dr. Robert M Chanock, who was a distinguished scientist at the National Institute of Health. Height 33 cm, width 47 cm
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Maori greenstone adze. Good cutting edge, sides have stone carved grooves. Length 13.5 cm
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Contact period c. 1840's Maori wooden taiaha, a long taiha with carved tongue on both sides. Length 152 cm
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'The Parry Lintel', the superb 18th century rare and important Lintel for a food store/window. Height 23 cm. Length 86 cm, the lintel also comes with the book 'Parry of the Arctic, the Life Story of Admiral Sir William Edward Parry 1790-1855' by Ann Parry, 1963
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Rare 18th century.Maori treasure box, (Papahou). This stone carved treasure box has a flat rectangular form instead of the wakahuia canoe shaped form. This box would have held personal objects such as combs and greenstone pendants of a high ranking person a similar box is in the British Museum, no. 241, plate 67, 'Taonga Maori in the British Museum'. Height 12 cm, length 33 cm
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Late 18th century.stone carved oval Wakahuia box of fine proportions. Provenance: originally passed on down through the silver family England, the vendor, who is English, wants it sold in New Zealand so it is returned to its country of origin. Length 44 cm, height 8 cm
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Superb 19th century Maori kiwi feather kete with kiwi and chicken feathers. Length 24 cm, width 15 cm
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Maori 20th century greenstone tiki length 10 cm, width 6 cm
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Greenstone 20th century Mania pendant length 7.5 cm
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Greenstone ear pendant very small suspension hole. Length 7 cm
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Wooden 19th century Maori flax beater (patu aruhe). Could have been in a swamp. Length 29 cm
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Wooden 19th century digging stick Could have been in a swamp. Length 91 cm
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18th century butt and handle of a Maori stone patu with three ridges to butt, would have been a superb patu if complete. Length 18 cm
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Large Maori stone adze. Length 20 cm
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Three contact period Maori stone adzes length 16 cm, 15 cm, 13 cm
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Two contact period stone adzes both have sharp cutting edges. Length 15 cm, 13 cm
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