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Maori & Oceanic Art — Art+Object
| Auction House: | Art+Object | Number of lots recorded: | 176 |
| Sale Title: | Maori & Oceanic Art | Lots with images: | 55 |
| Auction Location: | Auckland | Prices available: | 89 |
| Date: | 6-Dec-2012 |
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Hand coloured lithograph of King Tawhaio flanked by two further lithographs of Maori women, with ta moko and wearing korowai their hair adorned with huia feathers, 35 x 59 cm overall
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A good colonial ship diorama with a fully rigged three mastered British naval ship and paddle steamer, framed in a glass and wooden case, 48 x 80 cm
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Fijian I Ula Drisa (throwing club), with bulbous ball head with cavities to the surface, the slender cylindrical shaft terminating with a tavatava (zigzag notched) grip section. Length 41 cm
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Fijian Kiakavo ceremonial club together with an I Ula Drsia (throwing club), with lobbed head and tavatava (zigzag notched) grip section. Split to head and shaft section. Incised notching beneath the head. Provenance: Buried Village Collection
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Malekula island grade ceremony figure Temes nevimbure, constructed of plant fibre and smoked spider webbing. Painted in orange and black pigment and embellished with pigs tusks, raised on a wooden stake. Length 101 cm
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Malekula island grade ceremony figure Temes nevimbure, constructed of plant fibre, painted in orange and black pigment and embellished with pigs tusks, with arms out stretched raised on a wooden stake, the body of the figure covered in bound leaf fibre, 85 x 46 cm
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A Good New Britain Shield, with cane cross weaving and fibre binding and incised with a design of stylised opposing human faces accentuated in white. The back of the shield with rebated handle and incised with a stylised face design conforming to the front. Sulka tribe, East New Britain, 124 x 38 cm
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Rare Solomon Islands cannibal necklace with a double headed frigate bird totem, carved from nacre (Pearl) shell and with attached red and white shell currency discs
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Fern Tree Grade Post, gaua, Banks Islands. Cut tree fern. Height 250 cm. For a discussion of Grade Posts and grade-taking rituals and a similar figure see Alan Wardell, Oceanic Art from the Masco collection 1994. P.140. 'During his lifetime, a man of Vanuatu might ascend through as many as twenty individually named grades in his society, attaining more status and power with each elevation. On Banks Islands..the society is called Sukwe. The ceremonies connected with the acquisition of each grade were…
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Fern Tree Grade Post, gaua, Banks Islands. Cut tree fern. Height 253 cm. Provenance: Collected by Paul Gardissat on Gaua in the Banks Islands, Vanuatu in 1968. Private Collection, Sydney. Exhibited: Martin Browne Contemporary at the Auckland Art Fair, 2011. Private Collection, Auckland
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Fern Tree Grade Post, gaua, Banks Islands. Cut tree fern. Height 234 cm. Provenance: Collected by Paul Gardissat on Gaua in the Banks Islands, Vanuatu in 1968. Private Collection, Sydney. Exhibited: Martin Browne Contemporary at the Auckland Art Fair, 2011. Private Collection, Auckland
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A fine small Hawaiian Koa wood bowl with rich patina to the surface, traditional square patch and butterfly repairs, diameter 10 cm. Provenance: Formerly in a private Maui collection
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A rare Papua New Guinean headpiece mask, east Sepik province, constructed from wood, fibre and shell painted in red white and green pigment. Head pieces of this type were used during sacred dance ceremonies. Due to their fragmentary nature few examples survive intact. This example is complete and includes the original bound palm fronds. Height 60 cm
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A rare early 19th century Samoan tapa cloth, the cloth a fusion of Tonga, Samoan and Fijian styles. The Tongan style of block painting is over painted with Samoan siapo dots and framed by a traditional Fijian Masi Kesa boarder, 420 x 290 cm. Provenance: Formerly in the Berryman collection. Australia
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A Samoan folk art figure carved crouching holding a bowl carved in the form of a turtle, raised on a circular base inscribed Apia, Samoa. Height 70 cm
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A large decorative Kava bowl with additional cut glass top to enable use as a table, together with a collection of shells
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A superb early Anton Seuffert marquetry fern box, the top inlaid with a design of two ferns to the centre framed by an unusual rococo design with birds and foliate inlay showing European influence. Burr totara outside boarder repeated to the lid exterior. The sides of the box with specimen panels in Kauri, Rimu totara and other native timbers. The central panel to the front with an unusual rewarewa basket weave design and with inset ivory escutcheon, 24 x 30 cm. fern boxes were made to store pressed native…
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Colonial Kauri cheval mirror of generous proportions, the mirror held on serpentine shaped supports, the lower section carved as sturgeon fish. Raised on a trestle form serpentine fronted base. Height 180 cm. Width 100 cm
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A New Zealand kauri colonial hallstand with circular mirror and four serpentine shaped arms with turned coat hooks, the lower section with hinged compartment held on a pierced support with recessed drip trays to the base. Width 83 cm Height 1820
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A New Zealand kauri fern ware colonial table, the top decorated with a silhouette pattern of ferns. Raised on three turned legs, diameter 60 cm
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A New Zealand Kauri colonial wardrobe with central mirrored door, the side panels painted with a Saddleback and Tui and with native flowers and fauna including, Puriri leaves Pohutukawa and native clematis. The lower section compartment painted with a Kiwi. Width 130 cm Height 210 cm
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