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Auction House:
Mossgreen Auctions (No longer trading)
Number of lots recorded:31
Lots with images:31
Prices available:31
Category:
New Zealand Maori
LotDescriptionPriceImage
*** Two large house posts (maihi), Maori People, New Zealand (early twentieth century), inlaid pearl shell and trade paint on carved hardwood, 206 cm high (2). The large carved meeting house was usually named after an important ancestor and in most parts of… ***
*** A Maori club (Tewhatewha), New Zealand, 19th century, carved wood, 175 cm long ***
*** A Maori green stone patu, 19th century. of good translucent spinach green tone, 33 cm long, 10 cm wide. Provenance: An old South Australian collection ***
*** A fine 19th century Maori greenstone club, early 20th century ***
*** A Maori bust, painted kauri gum, New Zealand, circa 1880, 34 cm ***
*** A Maori abalone inlaid eel club, late 19th century ***
*** A carved Maori panel with paua shell inlay, monogrammed on the back 'T.W.' circa 1900, 28 x 143 cm ***
*** A Maori club (taiaha), New Zealand (nineteenth century), carved hardwood and paua shell, 147.2 cm long. Provenance: Private Collection, United Kingdom. Private Collection, Melbourne ***
*** A Maori taiaha spear, 19th century ***
*** A taiaha wood fighting staff, Maori, East Coast, mid 19th century ***
*** An Olmecoid greenstone vessel with human figure carved in high relief, Mexico, Late Pre-Classic Period, circa 100 BC, 17 cm high ***
*** A rare New Zealand Maori walking stick with carved Tiki and inlaid paua shell, 19th century ***
*** A Maori Childs Club (tiaha), New Zealand (early-mid 20th century), carved hardwood and shell inlay, 128 cm long ***
*** 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 early Maori greenstone pendant (kapeu) of highly unusual square section, pierced with a hourglass-shaped hole at the top ***
*** An oval Maori feather box, inlaid with paua shell, circa 20th century ***
*** Two modern Maori greenstone clubs, (patu), one in leather sheath ***
*** A Maori whale bone fish hook, early 19th century ***
*** An old Maori whale-bone pounder ***
*** An African greenstone carving of a hippopotamus. 17 cm wide ***
*** Four finely carved nephrite Maori ear pendants ***
*** A rare Maori flax bag (kete muka) 22 x 30 cm finely woven in flax fibre and with darkened fibre forming lateral bands ***
*** Collection of tribal wood carvings including Maori patu, mask & wood carving, Islander model canoe; New Guinea & Islander carvings, etc. (15 items) ***
*** Three Maori greenstone and basalt adze blades, together with two Maori greenstone chisels, 19th/20th century ***
*** New Zealand greenstone pendant ornament, 20th century, housed in timber box, 7 x 5 cm ***
*** Patu: Maori green stone hand club. Childs size, 20 cm ***
*** A nephrite Maori hei tiki together with a nephrite Maori ear pendant, 20th century ***
*** A Georgian cut glass mallet shape decanter, circa 1810. 25 cm high ***
*** Digging sticks & Adze/club, South Australian origin, 67 cm and 61 cm ***
*** A Maori Patu wooden hand club, 20th century. 42 cm long ***
*** A polo stick and a croquet mallet ***