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Auction House:
Mossgreen Auctions (No longer trading)
Number of lots recorded:96
Lots with images:96
Prices available:96
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*** An Ancestor skull, Asmat People. 16 cm high, 28.5 cm including stand ***
*** An Olmecoid greenstone vessel with human figure carved in high relief, Mexico, Late Pre-Classic Period, circa 100 BC, 17 cm high ***
*** Club Vanuatu slender tapered head on long shaft terminating in a pointed hand-grip. ***
*** A Togan or Samoan paddle-club, 112 cm length ***
*** A rare New Zealand Maori walking stick with carved Tiki and inlaid paua shell, 19th century ***
*** Papua New Guinea Sepik river Orators stool, carved polychrome wood decorated with shells, raffia and human hair, 136 cm high ***
*** A Dyak Hempatong (ancestor figure), Borneo, most probably 19th century or earlier. Height 114 cm ***
*** A Kava bowl, Fiji, circa 1900, carved wood, 22 cm high, 62.5 cm diameter. Provenance: The Neil Robertson Collection, Collected by Vereker and Nina Ferrier Hamilton who visited Tonga and Fiji in 1905. Thence by descent. ***
*** A Maori Childs Club (tiaha), New Zealand (early-mid 20th century), carved hardwood and shell inlay, 128 cm long ***
*** A tall Sumba female figure, Eastern Borneo 180 cm high. Provenance: Artist Michael Johnson collection, Sydney ***
*** A headhunted skull Dayak People. 15 cm high, 17 cm wide ***
*** A Betel Nut Mortar, Watam Village, Lower Sepik River, Papua New Guinea, (early-mid twentieth century), carved hardwood and natural earth pigments, 11 cm high. Provenance: John Pasquarelli, Papua New Guinea. Acquired from above by Dr Peter Elliott, in the… ***
*** A fine Fijian Totokai Club, 19th century. Provenance: Collected by Dr William Bromilow, Methodist missionary in Fiji (1879-1889), & then by direct family descent. Bromilow penned an account of his missionary life 'Twenty Years Among Primitive Papuans'… ***
*** Two Fertility Figures (akan akua'ba), Ashanti Tribe, South Ghana, West Africa, (early twentieth century), carved wood, beads and coins, 20 cm; 25.5 cm high (2). Provenance: Christie's, London 1976. Acquired from above by Dr Peter Elliott ***
*** A good quality Wunda shield, Western Australia, early 20th century, 72 x 18 cm with black metal stand ***
*** Wangarra Spirit, natural earth pigments on cottonwood Rinybuma, Margaret 132 cm high ***
*** An early club, Queensland (nineteenth century), carved hardwood, 72.5 cm high. Provenance: Private Collection, South Australia ***
*** New Britain Baining dance mask, Baining New Guinea, mixed media including paint on hessian, 120 x 70 cm, 120 x 70 cm ***
*** Wunjina: Bark painting, West Australian origin (Kimberley). 20 x 42 cm ***
*** Two boomerangs from the private collection of renowned explorer & anthropologist Alfred Howitt. Western New South Wales (74 cm) & South Eastern Australian (45 cm) origins, 19th century. Howitt was appointed leader of the Victorian Relief Expedition in… ***
*** A large New Guinea n shield 177 cm high, 28 cm wide, 5 cm deep ***
*** A decorated pearl shell, Kimberley Region, Western Australia (circa 1950), carved pearl shell and charcoal, 21 cm high. Provenance: Private Collection, United States of America ***
*** An early boomerang, Darling River Region (nineteenth century), carved hardwood, 75 cm long. Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney ***
*** A Bainings mask, gazelle Peninsula, Papua New Guinea 76 cm high, 43 cm wide, 63 cm deep ***
*** Two Armlets, Kankanay, Philippines (circa 1900), boar's tusks, hair and rattan, tusks 11.5 cm; 12.5 cm wide (2). Provenance: William Beyer, Manila. Acquired from above by Dr Peter Elliott, in the 1960s ***
*** An Early Lute (hasapi), Toba Batak, North Sumatra, Indonesia, (nineteenth century), carved wood, string and pigments, 72.6 cm long. Provenance: Sulawesi Arts, Bali. Acquired from above by Dr Peter Elliott, in 1998, The extremity in form of bird. Body… ***
*** A group of 3 Pacific Island clubs, Fiji & Samoa. ***
*** A New Caledonian scalloped mushroom club, 62 cm length ***
*** A Solomon Islands club, 105 cm length ***
*** A Zulu Shield, leather and wood, South African, 19th century, 118 x 55 cm ***
*** Artist unknown, and Kimberleys. Wandjina rain spirit. Natural earth pigments on bark.79 x 43 cm ***
*** An early spear, probably New Hebrides, Polynesia, (late nineteenth century), carved hardwood, 198.5 cm high. For two related examples from New Hebrides see, Steven Hooper, Art and Artifacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas: The James Hooper… ***
*** A Massim Club, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, (early twentieth century), carved hardwood and natural earth pigments, 63 cm long. Provenance: Muriel Larner, Cairns. Acquired from above by Dr Peter Elliott, 1970. Exhibited: Art of Massim Region of… ***
*** A carved timber Fijian Sali club 94 cm long. Provenance: Caspian gallery, Sydney. ***
*** A stone mortar in the form, of a turtle, Southeast Asia or Melanesia, circa 1900 or earlier, 26 x 10 cm ***
*** A shield, West Australian origin with incised linear decoration front and back, 69 cm. Provenance: Collection of The Late Geoffrey Maxwell Worthington ***
*** Two Chieftains Tabua, Fiji, 19th century, whale tooth and fibre, 13 cm and 15 cm long. Provenance: Fielden Collection, Melbourne. Collected by Eric Joshua Fielden, Fijian Rifles, 1913. Fielden later joined the A.I.F. (Artillery) and served on the Western… ***
*** A headdress (chiwara), Bambara, Mali (early-mid twentieth century), carved hardwood, animal hide, nails, shells, rattan and tin, 115 cm high ***
*** Carved totem pole, 32 cm high ***
*** A Southern Australian club, 75.5 cm length ***
*** A Solomon Islands (Malaita) diamond-headed club., 78 cm length ***
*** Three Boomerangs, Queensland, Eastern and South Eastern Australian origin, late 19th century, 54.5 cm, 63.5 cm and 74 cm ***
*** A large carved polychrome architectural lintel, Balinese, first half 20th century, depicting a winged lion (Singa) devouring a deer, 60 cm high, 85 cm wide, 8 cm deep. Provenance: The Peter Elliott Collection, lot 799, Mossgreen, Sydney, August 30, 2015 ***
*** Two hooked boomerangs, Central Australia (1970), carved wood and natural earth pigments, 69.5 cm; 74.5 cm high (2). Provenance: Private Collection, South Australia ***
*** Ceremonial hat, with ostrich and lyre bird feathers, natural hemp and natural ochres, Melville Island. 45 cm high, 20 cm deep ***
*** Papua New Guinea Sepik river Garamut - Slit drum, polychrome carved wood decorated with raffia, 210 cm long ***
*** An early West Australian spear-thrower. 72 cm long. Provenance: The Holt collection no 660 ***
*** ATTRIBUTED TO BAKULANGAY MARAWILI, CIRCA 1970. Untitled - squid figures and fish. Natural earth pigments on bark, 168 x 64 cm ***
*** An Abelam woven fibre yam mask finely made with traces of pigment and a good patina 50 cm ***
*** A Papuan headdress ornament (kap kap) in the form of a circular dish-shaped shell plaque with a finely carved openwork turtle shell disc attached with fibre and with an old button of European manufacture securing it; an old native repair to the disc… ***
*** A group of five New Guinea Highlands breast ornaments (kina), each with red pigmentation over the shell and fibre neckpiece, some with cowrie shell and other embellishments 24 cm and 18.5 cm ***
*** Two Boomerangs, Lake Eyre district, South Australia, with very fine linear decoration front and back, late 19th century, 82 cm and 84 cm ***
*** A pair of Fijian framed tapa clothes 102 x 45 cm ***
*** An Asmat stone fertility figure, Labeled Kianjiam. 6 cm high ***
*** A Ceremonial Paddle, Mentawai Islands, Indonesia, (mid-late twentieth century), carved wood, 182 cm long ***
*** A Mask, Mugu Village, Mustang, North Nepal, (nineteenth century), carved wood and pigment, 29 cm high. Provenance: Bhola Khanal, Nepal. Acquired from above by Dr Peter Elliott, in 1988 ***
*** An Ashanti stool 29 cm high Provenance: Lewis Morley collection ***
*** A Maori fish hook, carved bone, paua shell, wood and natural fiber, most likely North Island of New Zealand. 7 cm long. Note: This lot has been identified at the time of cataloguing as containing organic material which may be subject to restrictions… ***
*** An Indonesian bronze Moko drum, 63 cm high, 52 cm diameter ***
*** Ulos Ragidup, Important ritual cloth 129 x 197 cm. Toba-Batak people, North Sumatra, Indonesia ***
*** A carved Central Australian boomerang, 99 cm length ***
*** A rainforest shield with painted finish, Queensland origin, early 20th century. 64 x 18 cm ***
*** Papua New Guinea Sepik river hook finial, carved wood with a bird standing on top of a man, with shell eye decoration, 170 cm high ***
*** A Pig Mask, East Bhutan, (early-mid twentieth century), carved wood and pigment, 29.5 cm long. Provenance: Private Collection. Acquired from above by Dr Peter Elliott, in 1986 ***
*** Hinggi Kumbu, Mans mantle 113 x 270 cm. Central Sumba, Indonesia ***
*** A Solomon Islands golden nautilus shell inlaid wood Chiefs baton, the entire surface inlaid with well-carved geometric shell plaquettes, 37.5 cm ***
*** An early Maori greenstone pendant (kapeu) of highly unusual square section, pierced with a hourglass-shaped hole at the top ***
*** A Santa Cruz Island wood dance: club (napa) of classic canoe-shaped form with stylized masks on a triangular boss from on the top, the entire surface except the handle with well-painted geometric traditional painted decoration 97 cm ***
*** A Karewari wood Cult Figure (tunegatsir) Of classic form, the openwork curved body surmounted by a stylized human head 57 cm high ***
*** A Patent Graphoscope by Rows Ellis, complete with assorted slides depicting images of Solomon Island Natives, The Great War, Bondi Beach, Port Moresby, Fiji and the Australian Landscape ***
*** A Tiwi Islands ceremonial wand with ochre finish, 43 cm. Provenance: Collection of The Late Geoffrey Maxwell Worthington ***
*** Dick Goobalathaldin Roughsey (1924-1985), Hunters and Crocodile, natural earth pigments on bark, inscribed verso: 'The Crocodile', 69 x 20 cm ***
*** A carved pearl shell (riji jakoli), Western Australia (early twentieth century), carved pearl shell, natural earth pigments, human hair string and synthetic fibres, 15.5 cm ***
*** A Papua New Guinea Highlander's collection of personal accoutrement, tools, currency & relics 100 cm high, 68 cm wide ***
*** A Lute (hasapi), Toba Batak, North Sumatra, Indonesia, (mid twentieth century), carved wood and coin, 62.2 cm long. Provenance: Private Collection, Medan. Acquired from above by Dr Peter Elliott, in the late 1960s ***
*** Two Fijian Tabua whales tooth chieftains necklaces (1 with rope), 19th century. 16 cm & 18 cm. ***
*** Huntstein Garra, upper Sepik, height 77 cm. From the Bahinemo people of Gahom village in the Huntstein Mountains Collected in 1975. ***
*** UNKNOWN ARTIST, GROOTE EYLAND, CIRCA 1960. Figures with reeds. Natural earth pigments on bark, 32 x 62 cm ***
*** Lau Pahudu, Woman's important ceremonial sarong East Sumba, Indonesia ***
*** A Pair of Bougainville figures ***
*** A Fine Maprik Bride-Price (talipun) Mask With powerfully rendered features and painted decoration 26 cm ***
*** A Papuan Gulf ceremonial panel incised lime filled decoration on either side 69 cm or a Chimbu wood neck-rest in the form of a highly stylized quadruped 51.5 cm ***
*** Wanjina Figure Natural earth pigments on wood Karruwara, Attributed to Wattie 38.5 x 33.5 cm Arched panel Provenance: Private collection, Usa ***
*** Bark painting of Mimi and fish Western Arnhem Land, circa 1970 natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark Nganmira, Bobby Barrdjaray 64 x 54 cm ***
*** Bark painting of kangaroo, Northern Queensland, natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark 87 x 49 cm ***
*** A wunda shield, West Australian origin with incised linear decoration to the front, 63 cm. Provenance: Collection of The Late Geoffrey Maxwell Worthington ***
*** A Fighting Pole Club (Tjirtinpa) adorned with bands of fine stone-cut linear decoration, Central Australian origin, 19th century, 115 cm. Provenance: Private Collection South Australia ***
*** Four Boomerangs, Western Australia, Central Desert, South East Australia, carved wood and natural earth pigment, largest 72 cm ***
*** Two heavy rifle stock clubs, Fiji, late 19th early 20th century, carved wood and woven fibre, 92 cm and 87 cm long. Provenance: Fielden Collection, Melbourne. Collected by Eric Joshua Fielden, Fijian Rifles, 1913. Fielden later joined the A.I.F.… ***
*** A West Australian pearl shell engraved with Aboriginal warrior, mermaid and Australian flora and fauna, late 19th century, approximately 20 cm high, 18 cm wide ***
*** A Throwing or Fighting Club, Lake Eyre district, with stone cut linear motif, end with evidence of fire tending, late 19th century, 78 cm ***
*** New Ireland Malangan pole, carved wood and natural pigments, carved with figure to front and pelican to reverse. 72 cm high ***
*** A painted Sepik figural post. 149 cm high ***
*** A breastplate, Solomon Islands, Melanesia (circa 1900), pearl shell, tortoise shell, beads and bush string, 34 x 18 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney ***
*** A canoe prow ornament, Geelvink Bay, West Papua, (early-mid twentieth century), carved wood, 88.5 cm high. Provenance: Todd Barlin, Sydney. Private Collection, Sydney ***
*** Nancy Nungurrayi Untitled Australia 2000 122 x 61 cm. Provenance: Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne ***