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Tribal — Vickers & Hoad Auctioneers
Auction House:
| Vickers & Hoad Auctioneers | |
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| Number of lots recorded: | 16 |
| Lots with images: | 16 |
| Prices available: | 16 |
Category:
Tribal
- Aboriginal - Art (9)
- Aboriginal - Artefacts (313)
- African (50)
- American Indian (10)
- New Guinean (91)
- New Zealand Maori (13)
- S/E Asia, Oceania & Pacific (24)
- Zother (19)
| Lot | Description | Price | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
| *** | Early Kimberley shield, Western Australia. Carved and engraved hardwood. Provenance: Private Collection, United Kingdom. Private Collection, New South Wales. Approx. length 63 x 11.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Fine early incised fighting club, Lake Eyre Region, South Australia. Boomerang-shaped fighting club, with an incised pattern on both surfaces and old dark patina overall. Carved and engraved hardwood and natural pigments. Provenance: Dr Gerald Holt… | *** |  |
| *** | Rainforest cross boomerang, Queensland. A cross boomerang made of two elongated oval wooden sections of similar size set at right angles in center and secured with lawyer cane and resin. The surface is painted in the characteristic Queensland rainforest… | *** |  |
| *** | Early incised club, South East Australia. Wooden club, tapered to a handle which is cone shaped and incised with cross hatching and an elongated flattened bulb head with incised geometric patterns. Carved and engraved hardwood. Provenance: Private… | *** |  |
| *** | Superb engraved boomerang, Western New South Wales / Southern Queensland. Of convex section, the front incised with linear striations and linked ovoid designs, the reverse with finely adzed surface, old patina overall. Carved and engraved hardwood.… | *** |  |
| *** | Three antique Nautilus shell (Nautlius pompilius), carved, New Caledonia circa 1890's each carved in cameo, with flower heads and foliage and pierced borders (3) | *** |  |
| *** | Rare incised hooked boomerang, Coopers creek, South Australia. Carved and engraved hardwood and natural pigment. Approx length 68 x 27 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Queensland. | *** |  |
| *** | Important parrying shield, Lake Condah Aboriginal Mission, Victoria, carved and engraved hardwood (with custom stand) Lake Condah Mission station was established in 1867 as a church of England Mission, approximately three kilometres from the Lake. The… | *** |  |
| *** | Important incised club, Lake Condah Aboriginal Mission, Victoria, carved and engraved hardwood (with custom stand) Lake Condah Mission station was established in 1867 as a church of England Mission, approximately three kilometres from the Lake. The Lake… | *** |  |
| *** | Painted ceremonial shield, Desert North, Northern Territory, Australia, carved beanwood and natural pigments (no custom stand) shield of softwood, grooved on both sides, handles flush, cut out of solid, decorated with red and white ochre design. Length 71… | *** |  |
| *** | Early large incised fighting club, Lake Eyre Region, South Australia, carved and engraved hardwood and natural pigments (with custom stand) a typical two-handed club, with an elaborate linear pattern on its outer surface and rubbed all over with red ochre… | *** |  |
| *** | Rare large fighting boomerang, Western New South Wales / South Australia border Region. With regular fluted surface back and front, dark old patina. Carved and engraved hardwood. Provenance: Lord McAlpine Collection. Private Collection, Sydney. Approx.… | *** |  |
| *** | A rare antique 19th century Yoruba tribe carved ivory elephant tusk horn pipe, as used for ceremonies, fitted with a wood collar carved in relief with cowrie shells with petals and cross hatching, the tusk section incised with bands of figures in head… | *** |  |
| *** | A rare antique 19th century Yoruba tribe carved ivory elephant tusk horn pipe, as used for ceremonies, fitted with a wood collar carved in relief with cowrie shells, spiders and symbols, the tusk section incised with bands of beetles and spirit figures,… | *** |  |
| *** | Superb early incised elongated bulbous club, Victoria. Carved and engraved hardwood. Approx length 50 x 6 cm. Provenance: Collected by Louis Kurtze Kurtzes Museum, Portland, Victoria. Private Collection, South Australia. | *** |  |
| *** | Early Tiwi throwing club, Tiwi group, Melville and Bathurst Islands, Northern Territory. Carved and engraved hardwood and natural pigment. With longitudinal fluted design with ochre decoration on bulbous head, old dark patina, length 40.5 x 5 cm.… | *** |  |