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Davidson Auctions
Number of lots recorded:96
Lots with images:96
Prices available:96
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*** Aboriginal old shield, early 20th century, natural earth pigments on carved and incised hardwood (evidence of old use), length 55 cm, other notes: Executed in Central Australia in the early 20th century. Provenance: Estate of Mr Gary Bradley, Victoria;… ***
*** 19th century back ornament. Worn in the small of the back by the men of Hogg sic harbour area, Espiritu Santo Island, Vanuatu. Length 37 cm. Provenance: Pickles Auctions, the 1986 sale of Captain W.C. Thomson's Estate lot 168. ***
*** Aboriginal fish tailed ceremonial club, probably Northern Territory with polychrome hatched decoration. Length 133 cm ***
*** Aboriginal carved wood message stick. Incised geometric decoration. Very fine striated tips. Natural earth pigments, length 60 cm ***
*** Two various Aboriginal message sticks. Older, weathered hardwood with carved message to each side. Length 27 cm (each) ***
*** Aboriginal Western NSW boomerang. Long, open curved hardwood with full, length wavy incisions. Old edge losses. Length 83 cm ***
*** Various Aboriginal hair belts, cords and loin cloths ***
*** 10 greenstone hei-tiki, height 4 cm (longest) ***
*** Marquesas Islands carved bowl. Mortar style bowl elevated on three hei-tiki figures. Bowl finely carved all over with two hei-tiki to the body and two hei-tiki handles. Height 57 cm ***
*** Aboriginal bone coffin. Yirrkala, Northern Territory. Ex collection Lord McAlpine and Joan Bowers. Totemic animal decoration, with stand, height 171 cm ***
*** Aboriginal message stick, Tennant Creek. Anular and track decoration. Fire hardened edges, length 75 cm ***
*** Papua New Guinea Chambri Lakes clay pot. Damarau sago flour pot of narrow necked bulbous form. Single face decoration. On woven cane stand. Height 58 cm ***
*** Early Indigenous hand carved wine bottle Aboriginal spirit figures wandjina. Origins likely Kimberley region, Western Australia; possibly first half 20th century height 30 cm ***
*** Rare Eastern Arnhem land Dijinba/Kopapinga tribe headdress Bal-Pal-Gudurrk. Brolga feathers embedded in beeswax. Length 60 cm ***
*** Western Australian Wunda shield. With ochre stained zig-zag grooves, 19th or early 20th century, carved wood, length 70 cm ***
*** Old Dan mask. Ivory coast, Africa. On custom made base of high quality, height 25 cm ***
*** 19th century bullroarer. With incised decoration, rubbed through years of handling, WA. Private collection SA, length 36 cm ***
*** Fijian Ula throwing club. Early 20th century, having a lobed head. Age and use patina. Length 35 cm ***
*** Early 20th century Strongly carved boomerang. Willunga district, South Australia. Private collection NSW, length 97 cm ***
*** FA Pan Akus Balinese mahogany Wood Carving c.1950, Slight loss to one point of rooster's comb. engraved to base kuta gedang djakarta fa pan akus & co baii, height 36 cm ***
*** Frederik Hendrik Island carved bowl. Spindle or canoe form with carved rim and, crocodile terminals. Length 57 cm ***
*** East African Swahili coast ivory and bone embellished ebony throne chair (Kita Cha Enzi) 19th century. Nb: ivory export restrictions, height 127 cm, width 74 cm, depth 60 cm ***
*** Australian Aboriginal parrying shield (North-West Western Australia), early 20th century natural earth pigments on carved and incised hardwood. Length 79 cm. Provenance: Executed in Central Australia in the mid 20th century; estate of Mr Gary Bradley,… ***
*** Western Australian bullroarer. Late 19th/early 20th century with red ochre infill. Beautiful patina. Length 31 cm ***
*** Australian Aboriginal shield (North-West Western Australia), early 20th century natural earth pigments on carved and incised hardwood. Length 68 cm. Provenance: Executed in the north-west of Western Australia in the mid 20th century; estate of Mr Gary… ***
*** Two Aboriginal stone drinking mugs. One from Muloorina, SA, 48km N of Maree, Se of lake Eyre, the other, Hermannsburg, NT. Length 9 cm & 16 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. ***
*** Aboriginal hunting boomerang. Open curve hockey stick style with densely incised handgrip. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 79 cm ***
*** Early Aboriginal club. Fully grooved shaft. Dense hardwood with some older stable drying splits. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. ***
*** Early Aboriginal club. Stoneworked hardwood with scratch decorated handle. Provenance: Bungan Castle Museum collection. Length 68 cm ***
*** Papua New Guinea club. 'Pineapple' form head with terminal hilt to handle. Use patina. Collected 1950's. Length 112 cm ***
*** Rare West New Britain shield. Bears label attribution to the Kandrian area. Provenance: Stafford collection. Height 138 cm. Width 33 cm ***
*** Papua New Guinea Telefomin shield. Relief carved reserves filled with lime and ochre. Twin cane strap handles. Collected 1960s (Burns Philp employee). 163 x 51 cm ***
*** Three various African head rests. Two carved; & 1 with losses. Height 12 cm. (average) ***
*** Aboriginal bark container. Cylindrical form ochred bark with natural resin patches. Lashed with natural fibres worked into twine, probably Western Australia. Provenance: collection 1972, late Professor Derek Freeman, Anthropologist, Australian National… ***
*** Fijian tabua whales tooth. Old patination, drilled both ends. ***
*** Aboriginal shark skin food scraper. String laced to carved wood paddle. Use patina. Length 38 cm ***
*** Solomon Islands spirit house. Woven cane with effigy finial. 30 x 34 cm ***
*** 2 Aboriginal bark paintings. 60 x 24 cm (largest) ***
*** Aboriginal Leangle club. Right hooking club with regular full length channels. Old ochre patination. Length 83 cm ***
*** Aboriginal Western NSW boomerang. Dense acacia with linear incissions to top side. Formed nipples to each tip, loss to edge near apex. Length 64 cm ***
*** Early African Congo fetish figure. Songye wood figure with hatch carved body and cap. Losses to fibre adornments of head and shoulders. Green pigment traces. Height 70 cm ***
*** Mendi valley war shield (Worrumbi), Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea, oval form shield with central ridge, decorated with natural earth pigments. Twisted plant fibre carrying strap verso. Height 133 cm. Provenance: Estate of ray Hughes. ***
*** Papuan Asmat Shield/Board. Vertical curvilinear relief, carved with unusual pink and lime infill. Holes for cane handle. Height 140 cm ***
*** Papua New Guinea Hunstein mountain mask. Hooked cult mask in polychrome. Length 90 cm ***
*** Papua New Guinea Biwat ceremonial flute stopper. Mid 20th century Biwat spirit figure featuring crocodile and parrot totems. Height 158 cm ***
*** Ceremonial skull rack. Sepik river area, height 60 cm ***
*** Arnhem land ceremonial sword club, string bound grip. Traces of original ochre decoration, small losses to hilt terminals, length 150 cm ***
*** Early 20th century Spear-thrower. With old pigments, & spinaflex set peg, NT. Together with a fine N W Australian spear-thrower, retaining its ochre decoration. Early 20th century. Ex collection, Jim Haas, (formerly head of Ethnographic Art department at… ***
*** Central Australian softwood coolamon. Hand painted in natural earth tones. Papunya c1960s. Length 67 cm ***
*** Magic staff, Batak people, Lake Toba, Sumatra. Bamboo carving with feathers & cotton thread, dark patina, 19th century.from the collection of Dr P Elliot (1927- 2014). Height 77 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. ***
*** Three Dyak spears, each with blade cover. Length 194 cm (longest) ***
*** Aboriginal stone worked shield. Ochre and incised decoration. Length 61 cm ***
*** West African (Ghana) Ashanti stained wood stool (dwa). C. First half 20th century. Reference Le Monde l'Art tribal, IV March, 1998, p.33. Provenance: Hotel Drouot Auction house Paris,1975; Art Mayer gallery, 1975; Art Mayer gallery, 1983; Millard & Dekker… ***
*** Inuit school Inuit Family fishing, printed in 'Povungnituk.' title and artist's name in syllabics stonecut print 63 x 78 cm ***
*** Western Pacific club. Very dense wood with mushroom style head. Old damage around head. L 64 cm ***
*** African ivory tusk carving. Hand carved primate design. Original invoice available. Height 32 cm ***
*** Papua New Guinea carved post. Kwoma Yina Koma Minja figure. David Said Collection, length 129 cm ***
*** Early Western NSW boomerang. Club style, long boomerang in very dense hardwood. Finely incised all over the convex surface, except for the last 40 cm of the grip. Length 104 cm ***
*** Two early Melanesian clubs, including a classic Tolai club of plain form, early 20th century, New Britain; and Bena Bena (Kuka Kuka) club with flat, round stone disk head, early 20th century. David Said Collection. ***
*** Two old Melanesian canoe ornaments. Massim canoe mast attachment in the shape of a bird, used to tie off the sail. Utian Island, Lousade Archipelago; old Humboldt Bay canoe prow with its carved gunwales; and mudfish canoe prow, lower Sepik or Chambri… ***
*** 19th century Javanese Pedang Lurus sword. Watered pamor blade with well carved scrolling floral decoration and demonic face. Polished wooden hilt with bronze mounts, later scabbard with embossed decoration. Length 70 cm ***
*** Early Papua New Guinea Asmat ancestral figure. Carved, seated with hands under chin. Age and use patina. Height 58 cm ***
*** Aboriginal painted shield. Acrylic on wood length 73 cm ***
*** Old dance mask, Sepik. The classic bird man mask from the coast Sepik and Ramu area, ex Elizabeth Pert collection Queensland, height 52 cm ***
*** Old Massim dance paddle, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, length 69 cm ***
*** Large old Kap Kap ornament. Motu people, central Province, Papua New Guinea. Collected c1950 by Joe Ketish, diameter 18 cm ***
*** Early Fijian whale tooth tabua. With remains of woven sennit suspension. Length 17 cm tooth ***
*** Aboriginal carved wood message stick. Incised geometric decoration. Very fine striated tips. Natural earth pigments, length 64 cm ***
*** Early 20th century Spear-thrower. North West WA, still retaining it's original ochre decoration. Provenance: ex Jim Haas collection (formerly head of Ethnographic Art department at Bonham's San Francisco), length 121 cm ***
*** Two Aboriginal Coolamon with painted decoration, length 67 cm longest) ***
*** Two early 20th century Massim lime Spatulae. Paddle form, both with figural terminals. Use patination. Length 32 cm (longest) ***
*** Large West Australian Aboriginal shield. with stone incised geometric decoration. Length 75 cm ***
*** 19th century Aboriginal nulla nulla. Fine patina, from the Murchison Region in WA. Length 64 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. ***
*** Indonesian school reverse painting on glass. Depicting wayang figures, 37 x 63 cm ***
*** 11 various Aboriginal metal tools & spear heads. Mostly made out of horseshoes, from Dunham river station, East Kimberley, WA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. ***
*** Two various ancient Aboriginal cylcons. Two ritual pieces fashioned from fine sedimentary stone. Collected over three generations of a farming family on a Walgett property. ***
*** American Indian snakeskin Quiver & 5 Arrows. Quiver with snakes head & fringed dec. Internal note States: Presented to West Australian Governor visiting delegation of Sioux Indians, c.2000. Length 50 cm (Quiver) ***
*** Two Papua New Guinea Yam Ceremony masks. Woven cane and grass with bright polychrome finish. Old smoke patina. Abelam area. Length 35 cm (largest) ***
*** Femur bone club. Age and use pattination. Length 56 cm ***
*** Preserved New Guinea bird of Paradise. Head and body stuffed with reeds. Sable and chocolate plumage. Length 56 cm ***
*** Two Aboriginal carved churingas. Length 42 cm (Both) ***
*** Western Pacific carved wooden horn incised, and carved hardwood instrument (fish totem?) with pierced ridges. Possibly missing grass tassels. Aged patination. Provenance: Hawkins family length 29 cm ***
*** Dyak Sumpitan. Sarawak blowpipe of niagang wood, with traditional bound spearpoint. Length 190 ***
*** Carved boomerang, depicting kangaroos and emu. L 65 cm ***
*** Sepik River Mwai mask. Carved wood with natural fibre, boar tusks and inlaid shell eyes. Some losses. Height 93 cm, width 3 cm. ***
*** Two Australian Aboriginal artefacts, including fluted club; woman's club and digging stick; and woomera (spear thrower). David Said Collection, length 71 cm (digging stick) ***
*** Tiwi Kwajakor dance hat. Mornington Peninsula, human hair, bamboo, ochres, cassowary feathers. David Said Collection, height 55 cm ***
*** Trobriand Kula canoe Splashboard. Pierced and carved with small figure to crest, height 77 cm ***
*** Abelam figural Status axe. Ceremonially used as a body decoration and placed over the shoulder, with the blade pointing backwards and downwards. Provenance: ex Elizabeth Pryce collection. David Said Collection, length 60 cm ***
*** Tasmanian Aboriginal Marineer shell necklace. Single strand of iridised purple shells. Length 30 cm ***
*** Ashanti chiefs stool. Corner pillars and central reticulated feature in dense dark wood. Christensen collection catalogue mark cc/40090. Height 29 cm ***
*** Mendi valley war shield (Worrumbi), Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea, oval form shield with central ridge, decorated with natural earth pigments. Twisted plant fibre carrying strap verso. Height 115 cm. Provenance: Estate of ray Hughes. ***
*** New Guinea large dance shield. Sepik River face carved tall shield with cane, double handle. Height 235 cm ***
*** Papua New Guinea Sepik River ceremonial paddle. Long thin hooked blade with decorative carvings to root of blade. Mid 20th century. Ex Elizabeth Pryce collection. Length 144 cm ***
*** Slender, early Spear-thrower, NT. Together with a large spear-thrower, N W Australia. Early 20th century. Provenance: ex Jim Haas collection (formerly head of Ethnographic Art department at Bonham's San Francisco), length 105 cm & 123 cm ***
*** Massim Figure, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea. Slight loss to nose. Height 48 cm ***