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Auction House:Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & ValuersNumber of lots recorded:518
Sale Title:Antiques & Interiors including Taxidermy and Tribal ArtLots with images:494
Auction Location:SydneyPrices available:281
Date:25-Nov-2012
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Artist Unknown, North East Arnhemland Lorrken Burial pole decorated with kangaroo, fish and bird motifs 2000, earth pigments on timber. Provenance: Ancient Erth Indigenous Art Cairns, QLD. Rosemary Penrose collection. Height 177 cm
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Artist Unknown, North East Arnhemland Lorrken Burial pole decorated with animal motif cross hatched 2000, earth pigments on timber Painted Country Gallery catalogue no. PC012. Provenance: Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns, QLD, 2000. Rosemary Penrose collection. Height 136 cm
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Tiwi Islands, tall figure 1999, Carmelina Puantulura, circa 1957 - 2006, earth pigments, coconut husk and paperbark on ironwood. Height 159 cm. Provenance: Ancient Erth Indigenous Art Cairns, QLD, 1999. Rosemary Penrose collection other notes: Collections: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
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Artist Unknown, Lorrken Burial pole decorated with black and white goanna motifs 1989, earth pigments on timber Painted Country Gallery catalogue no. PC27. Provenance: Original Dreamtime Art Gallery, Alice Springs, NT, 1989. Rosemary Penrose collection. Height 167 cm
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Jimmy Angununa, Born, circa 1935 Maningrida North East Arnhemland Wangara spirit 1999, earth pigments on timber Painted Country Gallery catalogue no. PC29. Provenance: Ancient Erth Indigenous Art Gallery, Cairns, QLD. Rosemary Penrose collection. Height 264 cm
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An 20th century Asmat West Papua standing figure over painted in white, modelled holding a staff, set upon a stepped stand (last quarter 20th century) 106 cm high
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A Mwai mask, Iatmul people, Middle Sepik River, Papua New Guinea, carved timber with natural, earth pigments, cowrie shells and fibres, some shells missing. Height 91 cm
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A marangga from the island of Sumba, Indonesia, metal and cotton, worn by high Class, mounted. Width 30.6 cm
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Aibom Pottery vessel with four traditional face designs. Chambri Lakes, Sepik Region, Papua New Guinea, circa 1950's. Ex Robert Ypres. Jutta Malnic collection. Approx 37 x 25 cm
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Steering paddle. Signed by carver. Purchased from owner on Kitava Island, Milne Bay, Trobriand Islands. Jutta Malnic collection.
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Nagega canoe prow. Previously owned by Sixipeni and used on famous Tanalele Kula to Panamote Atoll after which he was killed. Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea. See Kula: Myth and Magic in the Trobriand Islands, Jutta Malnic, Cowrie books, 1998, p.74 and p.77. Jutta Malnic collection
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Masawa Kula canoe lagim (splashboard). Collected Amphlette Islands, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea. Juttal Malnic collection.
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Masawa Kula canoe lagim (splashboard). Collected Amphlette Islands, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea. Juttal Malnic collection.
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Masawa Kula canoe lagim (splashboard). Collected Amphlette Islands, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea. Jutta Malnic collection.
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Masawa Kula canoe lagim (splashboard). Collected Amphlette Islands, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea. Jutta Malnic collection.
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Masawa Kula canoe lagim (splashboard). Collected Amphlette Islands, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea. Jutta Malnic collection.
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Masawa Kula canoe lagim (splashboard). Collected Amphlette Islands, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea. Jutta Malnic collection.
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Old wooden platter. Used to present cone shells (new mwali) to Kaileuna Chiefs at end of the communal cone fishing competition, Vinanu. Purchased from Chief Katubai on Kaileuna Island. Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea. See Kula: Myth and Magic in the Trobriand Islands, Jutta Malnic, Cowrie books, 1998, p. 120. Jutta Malnic collection.
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A very old large communal Mona feast bowl, Mona, Ilalima village, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea. Jutta Malnic collection.
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Canoe wave splitter, gawa nagela, with finely inscribed curvilinear design. Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea. Jutta Malnik collection. Approx 125 x 80 cm
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