| *** | Maori late 19th century kiwi feather kete. Densely feathered bag on finely woven flax base, with tassels. Length 15 cm, height 19 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A superb 20th century greenstone mere, with hourglass hole and three grooves. The greenstone quality is A1 (the best). Length 42 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Pre-European Maori Barracuda hook (Okooko). Straight thick shank with an unbarbed bone point which is rendered more secure by a small wooden wedge driven through a hole, the shank has an outer snood knob. Length 15 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Beautiful contact period Maori greenstone mere good quality greenstone with feathering of white. Nice hourglass hole and three ridges to butt. Length 36 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Superbly carved ceremonial Maori paddle carved all over by a master carver. One of a pair with previous lot, but not identical. Front side of blade has three full figures and a head. shallow side of blade incised with kowhaiwhai design. Paua shell eyes.… | *** |  |
| *** | A rare moa hunter serpentine Mau Kaki (reel necklace section), cylindrical shape with two shallow grooves, the underside with a flattened section, one end of the underside broken. 3.5 cm length. | *** |  |
| *** | A good large Pre-European pounamu toki (adze blade), Kawakawa variety stone with mottled inanga inclusions. Lapidary scarfs visible to each side. 31 cm length, 6.5 cm width. | *** |  |
| *** | Contact period pounamu hei tiki, finely carved in the type I form in translucent Kahurangi variety stone, finely carved facial features with a clearly defined heart-shaped mouth displaying tongue and teeth. Female. Suspension hole at the top of the head.… | *** |  |
| *** | A good large Pre-European pounamu toki (adze blade), Inanga with speckled inclusions in the stone, reducing quadrangular shape with sharply delineated cutting edge, lapidary scarf running down the length of one side. Provenance: Dame Jenny Gibbs… | *** |  |
| *** | Superb Maori 19th century flax and kiwi feather cloak, c. 1840s, some feathers missing at bottom but could be restored by Maori expert. Has stitch ribbing on back to fold around one shoulder. Provenance: Returned from Los Angeles. Previously owned by New… | *** |  |
| *** | A pre 19th century Maori patu onewa (stone club). Of relatively small proportion. Four ridges to butt, hour glass suspension hole. Fine blade. Length 32 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A pre 19th century Maori carved Ipu (Spouted bowl). This rare form of kumete was possibly used to pour preserving bird fat into gourds. The figure to underside in haka pose with defined ribs and extended tongue. Length 39 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Carved 19th century wooden waka huia, all over geometric pAkati decoration supported by two figures with protruding tongues either end | *** |  |
| *** | Beautifully carved large Maori wooden panel of modern design and carved by a master carver. Background design of intricate spirals with two figures one atop of the other. Below is a Maori warrior with facial moko and holding a taiaha, the top figure is of… | *** |  |
| *** | Large Paepae (Threshold board), carved in a continuous band with wheku heads, manaia and mirahiaku. Traces of red ochre finish. Circa 1920, 3.2 metres length | *** |  |
| *** | Koropepe pounamu very rare and early adornment, spiral shape which leads to koru form design at the end of the tail, representing a mythical bird or eel/fish form, extremely good example with well defined facial features, inset eyes, raised notch to beak,… | *** |  |
| *** | An 18th century hei tiki, a type I hei tiki fashioned from an inanga stone toki. Countersunk suspension hole and scarf markings evident on the back, height 7.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | 18th century mere pounamu, Kawakawa variety pounamu with countersunk suspension hole. Some fritting evident to the blade, 27 cm length | *** |  |
| *** | 19th century pounamu pekapeka, polished tangiwai (bowenite) variety stone. Recessed eyes. Provenance: belonged to Annie Shasky (nee Turnball) the current owners great grandmother. Most likely given to Annie when her husband George Shasky was gifted his… | *** |  |
| *** | A Pre-European patu paraoa (whalebone hand club), traditional broad spatulate blade, reducing to the grip section, with a countersunk suspension hole. Chips evident to the blade. Provenance: Dame Jenny Gibbs collection. 43 cm length. | *** |  |
| *** | Rare and beautiful Maori wood and 9ct gold cigar Pipe carved tattooed faces with tiny paua shell eyes, the two gold bands marked 9ct gold hallmarked G.P. (may be George Pretkethly - New Zealand Jeweller and Goldsmith). Also marked Christeson, who was a… | *** |  |
| *** | 19th century Maori Flax (Muka) rain cape | *** |  |
| *** | Greenstone Hei Tiki, well formed, head inclined to right. Deeply carved, red sealing wax in eyes. Length 8 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | A rare 19th century large kiwi feather bag (kete). Woven flax in superb condition. Length 39 cm. Width 37 cm. Depth 35 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Rare wahaika 19th century, male carved figure to back with long protruding tongue, four ridges to butt, square hole, length 35 cm. Provenance: Neil Darroch collection, formerly E.B. Williams collection, Hastings (early 20th century). Ref 90 | *** |  |
| *** | 19th century Maori wooden small comb (Heru Mapara). Extremeley rare, made of separate wooden teeth lashed together with flax fibre. Length 11 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Contact period Maori wooden club (kotiate). Fiddle shape with good patina, stone carved human head motif with paua shell eyes on butt. Round handle and good weight, inscribed, 'From Hawkes Bay'. Length 32 cm | *** |  |
| *** | 18th century rare Maori fish hook (matau). Wooden shank that is extended to form the point limb with a short bone point. Carved tiki face on bend. Lashed snood and line. Length 13 cm (excluding line). Webster collection No. 522 | *** |  |
| *** | A carved Maori double barrel Shotgun, with ramrod. By James W Rosier. Stock carved all over in a rauponga pattern and haliotis (blackfoot paua) shell inlays to one side. Butt with heel and tow plates. Note: gun licensed required | *** |  |
| *** | A good early 19th century wahaika (carved wood hand club), traditional hooked blade with carved wheku figure to the inner blade curve. The grip section terminating in a carved wheku head. Pierced for suspension. Small natural wood depression to one side… | *** |  |
| *** | Late 18th century Maori stone patu (Onewa) thick body and good grip to handle. Carved spiral ridged butt. Excellent hourglass hole, greenish tinge to the stone. Length 34.5 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | A carved wood tobacco pipe by Thomas Heberley. The front of the bowl carved with a wahine and child the stem issuing from the mouth of a naturalistic tane figure clutching the tail of a marakihau (mythical sea creature). Cut paua embellishments. Linear… | *** |  |
| *** | A superb rare large argillite Pre-European toki (adze), rectangular tapering cross-section form reducing to the pole section. The pole with unusual lobed ridging. Overall pecked finish. Some chipping to the blade edge. Similar in form to toki found at… | *** |  |
| *** | 19th century Pake ( rain cape), double pair twining. Robust plaited finish at top edge and with red and blue dyed coloration. Exposed surface beautifully thatched with precise rows of brown flax leaf, the bottom fringe with dyed muka conforming to the… | *** |  |
| *** | A large Pre-European toki pounamu, Inanga variety stone, poll uneven, rounded lateral edges, slightly rounded cutting edge but intact. Polished throughout, 25 cm length. | *** |  |
| *** | 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) | *** |  |
| *** | 19th century Maori feather and flax cloak with a large taniko border and four rows of feathers | *** |  |
| *** | Tewhatewha. Highly carved ceremonial tewhatewha finely decorated with koru inspired haehae and pataki with inlaid paua to shaft. Length 120 cm. Width 14 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Early Tewhatewha. Orthodox form with 'axe' type head, stone tooled with a deep rich patina, a pierced hole with attached feathers and the shaft decorated with softly carved abstracted mania design. Length 120.5 cm. Width 17.4 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A contact period wooden Maori carving. Red stained wooden carving. Figure standing with hands clasped to abdomen, paua shell inset eyes. Provenance: Ex-Wagener Museum. Length 63 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Late 18th century composite shark hook. Full bodied wooden shank limb with beautifully carved snood knob, and small bone point. Lashed snood and line. Length 16 cm (excluding line). Webster collection No. 521. | *** |  |
| *** | 19th century Maori kiwi feather kete bag with flax line and tassels. Long light brown kiwi feathers in excellent condition. Width 18 cm. Height 14 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A superb early 19th century whalebone hand club (kotiate), with engraved human head to butt. Red wax in one of the eyes. Excellent patina. Length 31.5 cm. Width 16 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A fine contact period Maori whalebone club (patu paraoa), with five rings to the butt and good wear to the suspension hole. Length 41 cm. Width 9.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A Superbly carved wooden walking stick (tokotoko), with a broad spiral winding down whole shaft. Face to top below handle. Length 86 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A late 18th century whale bone patu paraoa, a superb patu, in off-white cream, with some age. Six grooves to handle end. Weight 714.8g. Length 37.5 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | A carved Maori wooden sculpture by master carver James Rickard, 'Koha' paua inset eyes. Length 142 cm. Width 40 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Pou Whakairo (carved Freestanding figure), the standing figure with hands placed to the abdomen and with a wheku head with cut paua disc eyes and open mouth with protruding tongue. Decorated with rauponga and maui spirals, 27 x 12 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | 18th century or earlier Maori carved green stone pekapeka. The left hand manaia upright as opposed to the near horizontal right hand manaia. Of translucent stone with hour glass form suspension hole. Width 6 cm, height 4 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A 19th century pounamu hei tiki. Red sealing wax to eyes, hour glass form suspension hole. Worn head to left, arms to thighs. Large protruding stomach. Height 11 cm. Provenance: Purchased Dunbar Sloane Ltd, lot 52, December 1972. 10.9 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A pre 19th century Maori patu onewa (stone club). Five ridges to butt, hour glass form suspension hole. Slight nicking to rounded blade. Length 35 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An early 20th century carved ebonised panel, centered by a figure with a wheku head with protruding tongue and cut paua shell eyes flanked by figures with wheku heads, the whole extensively adorned with haehae, pakati and pikoruru carving. 89 x 66 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Superb Matau Fish Hook. A large, early composite fish-hook with curved wooden shank fashioned from a native hardwood sapling; shaft superbly carved with a fine head. A length of cord (aho) is attached to the top. The small barb is shell with serrated… | *** |  |
| *** | An 18th century beautiful large Maori greenstone toki (adze) in near perfect condition, with a serrated edge. Length 21 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | A carved wood tobacco pipe by Thomas Heberley (1876 - 1937). The bowl is carved with a pair of naturalistic tane and wahine figures holding three fingered hands to their mouths. The wahine holds a stylised patu the tane with hand to hip, both with cut… | *** |  |
| *** | Pre-European toki pounamu, Kawakawa variety stone with pale mottled inclusions. Quadrangular cross-section with scarf marks running down both lateral edges with slight asymmetry to the poll. Double sided bevel with a smooth polished surface throughout.… | *** |  |
| *** | 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… | *** |  |
| *** | Taiaha (fighting staff), late 19th century example with tapering slender shaft and undecorated tongue and head section, split to one side. 160 cm length. | *** |  |
| *** | A Maori wooden fighting staff (taiaha), with a narrow, finely carved tongue. Red wax in eyes. Provenance: Bought at Dunbar Sloane Auckland, 2008. Length 153 cm | *** |  |
| *** | 19th century kiwi feather kete, from the Urewera-Gisborne region, with a woven flax base and handles | *** |  |
| *** | Tokotoko finely carved walking stick, curved handle leading to carved shaft with koiri and rauponga designs, three manaia figures each with paua inset eyes, dark brown patina (some loss to handle), height 95 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Early 20th century oval wall hanging ornately carved with four tiki, mangopare kowhaiwhai and rauponga notching, paua shell insets throughout, length 127 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Chiefly Taiaha. The taiaha is a traditional Maori weapon usually between five to six feet (1.5 to 1.8 m) in length. It is a wooden close-quarters weapon used for short sharp strikes or stabbing thrusts. It has three main parts. The arero (tongue) used for… | *** |  |
| *** | An impressive, very large and important whale bone hei tiki. Together with a nephrite kuru pendant from the Ngai Wai tribe which literally translates 'The People of the Water'. The Ngai Wai controlled the islands of the north-East Coast of the North… | *** |  |
| *** | 20th century pounamu mere three ridges to butt, hour glass form suspension hole. Long grip and flat blade, length 37 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Early 19th century whalebone kotiate of small proportion. Manaia form butt with square suspension hole. Blade of relatively thin form. Length 26 cm . Provenance: 'Ex Walters 1961' | *** |  |
| *** | Late 19th century/early 20th century New Zealand Folk Art carved work box, large size with fall-front and lift lid revealing side bank of five drawers. All carved with Maori portraits of chieftains, depiction of Heeni Hirini and child, wharenui meeting… | *** |  |
| *** | Wahaika paraoa (whalebone hand club), large early 20th century example with a manaia figure carved to the in-curve of the blade, the handle pieced for suspension and carved with a manaia head with paua shell eyes, 44 cm length | *** |  |
| *** | 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 | *** |  |
| *** | Tene Waitere Ngati Tarawahi Poupou, carved with an ancestral figure with wheku head with protruding tongue and circular disc eyes surmounting a wheku head at the base of the panel. A further small wheku carved to the lower center section. Decorated with… | *** |  |
| *** | A late 19th century toki Kaukaroa (long handled axe), the shaft carved with eight carved wheku figures terminating in a rauponga carved arero (tongue) similar to a taiaha, mounted with a trade steel blade, height 106 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Pre-European large toki pounamu, Kawakawa variety stone. Quadrangular form, scarf markings to both laterals, pecked uneven poll, polished surface throughout with smooth bevel and cutting edge intact and sharp. 26 cm length. | *** |  |
| *** | A rare greywacke patu onewa, the pecked blade reducing to the handle section with an incipient carved face to both sides. The blade with three incised lines and chipping to the outer rim. Provenance: Waimea plains, where Maori had numerous agricultural… | *** |  |
| *** | With finely carved rauponga spirals on arero (tongue) with pakati deeply recessed. Upoko (head) with prominent mouth and slanted paua eyes. Tapering shaft with rounded end. Label inscribed 'Staff office of a Maori Chief', 154 cm length. Y number pending | *** |  |
| *** | A good 19th century pounamu hei tiki, a good example of the classic type I form. Inanga variety stone with the head tilted to the right. The eye rings are widely recessed with a forehead ridge widening to the nose over the classic heart shaped mouth. The… | *** |  |
| *** | A 19th century taiaha (fighting staff), the arero (tongue), carved with rauponga spirals and deeply recessed pataki, terminating in a sharp point. The Upoko (head) with circular paua eyes. Slender tapering shaft terminating at a pointed end. 155 cm length… | *** |  |
| *** | A good 19th century taiaha (fighting staff), Arero (tongue) finely carved with rauponga spirals. Upoko (head) displays wide and deeply recessed eyes. Long slender tapering shaft with rounded end. 186 cm length. | *** |  |
| *** | A 19th century small mere pounamu, Inanga variety stone, dark and pale grain indicate firing. Blade tapering to grip with three graduating grooves. The suspension hole displays more than one attempt. Chip to the blade. 27 cm length. | *** |  |
| *** | A good 19th century kete Huruhuru (feather bag), pheasant feathers, single pair twining with two attached muka handles. 16 cm x 15 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | A rare late 19th century brown kiwi feather stole, in fine original condition with raw silk backing. 140 cm length | *** |  |
| *** | Jane Brenkley Maori folk art side table, the rectangular top with highly detailed carving depicting a man, woman and dog in the foreground and a lake scene in the mid-ground, carved figural central column and stepped base. Signed and dated 1944. 60 cm… | *** |  |
| *** | A late 19th carved wood kotiate, carved with raupunga spirals and pakati, inlaid paua to the mid-section. Grip pierced for suspension, 36 cm length. | *** |  |
| *** | A 19th century tokotoko (traditional carved walking stick) attributed to Jacob William Heberley (1849-1906). Naturalistic carved figure with ta-moko surmounting three wheku heads. The figures all with inset cut paua shell eyes (one missing) and decorated… | *** |  |
| *** | Late 19th century/early 20th century greenstone mere, of relatively crude form. Five ridges to butt off centre suspension hole. Fine blade, length 34 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | A rare early contact period small Maori stone patu. Possibly used by a chief's Son in the Art of warfare. Has a pre-European hour glass hole. In excellent condition apart from a tiny nibble on the side. Length 21.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Hei tiki pounamu large and important tiki, translucent stone with head tilting to the right, large dominant chest and arms resting to the top of the thighs, pierced hole for attachment, height 10.5 cm. Provenance: formerly owned by Mrs. Maora Tamihana of… | *** |  |
| *** | 18th century or earlier Maori pounamu pendant (kuru) of slender faceted form. Hour glass form suspension hole. Length 14 cm | *** |  |
| *** | 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) | *** |  |
| *** | Maori contact period 19th century wooden long club (Toki Kakauroa) with steel axe head, (axe head has manufacturers stamp on it but hard to read). Length 117 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Carved Maori wooden long club (toki Kakauroa) Steel axe head (rusty), the shaft beautifully carved all over with 8 tiki figures with paua shell eyes. Length 103 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A good Pre-European pounamu toki (nephrite adze), Flatted tapering quadrangular shape with mottled brown inclusions in the stone, lapidary scarf to one side, 16 cm length | *** |  |
| *** | Pre 19th century Marori carved wooden matau (fish hook). Of large proportion with lashing grooves to shank and opposing barbs to point. Height 19.5 cm. Provenance: Webster collection. | *** |  |
| *** | Late 19th century carved wooden tobacco/ tattooing pot, the two carved seated figures holding a pot which has been carved with a tiki face. Height 15.5 cm. Length 25 cm. Depth 11 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Pre-European patu onewa (argillite club), pecked and polished tapering to a base with four concentric grooves and a countersunk hole for suspension. Chip to the blade. 26 cm length. | *** |  |
| *** | 19th century hoe (paddle), traditional form with long cylindrical shaft terminating in a ridged handle. The back of the blade with incised abstract design suggesting the tail of whale. 210 cm length. Y number pending | *** |  |
| *** | Large Pre-European pounamu toki, Kawakawa variety stone, tapering quadrangular shape, polished surface with small hammer pecked area and minor lapidary scarf mark to the poll. Later suspension hole probably steel tooled. Some fritting to the blade. 31 cm… | *** |  |
