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Maori & Oceanic Art — Art+Object

Auction House:Art+ObjectNumber of lots recorded:176
Sale Title:Maori & Oceanic ArtLots with images:55
Auction Location:AucklandPrices available:89
Date:6-Dec-2012
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Three stone toki, one found at Cable Bay and another at Onapua Bay.
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A large Greywacke stone toki. Length 28 cm
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Greywacke stone toki
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Stone toki
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Argillite stone ridgeback toki. Toki of this form were typically used to carve canoe. Length 22 cm
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Two argillite stone toki
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Argillite stone toki. Length 15 cm
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A selection of five stone toki
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A selection of four stone toki
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A decorative stone covered in barnacles, together with another stone
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A large anchor stone
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A pounamu kuru, pendantkawakawa variety with attached gilt brass suspension ring. Length 6 cm
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Pounamu scraper. Length 9 cm
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Toki Pounamu, kawakawa variety, together with a piece of polished pounamu. Length 8 cm
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Whale bone hei tiki, with tilted head, right hand to abdomen, left hand to thigh, the forehead pierced for suspension. Unregistered, of 20th century manufacture. Length 11 cm
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19th century kiwi feather and muka kete. Size 17 x 22 cm.
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Muka fibre kete with purple dyed bands, circa 1920, framed in glass case. Size 30 x 28 cm
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Muka kete (flax fibre bag) of generous proportions, with double pair twining and complex cross weave patterning. 44 x 44 cm
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A fine and early Kaitaka P'p'roa. Kaitaka is the name given to cloaks made of the finest flax with taniko boarders. This superb example is has a wide taniko boarder to the bottom and with narrower boarders to the sides. The cloak is woven in double pair twining throughout. The taniko is worked in black and undyed flax fibre and with coloured wool with abstract triangular motifs. Some damage to the taniko fringe but overall in superb condition. Circa 1870, 122 x 168 cm. Provenance: private collection…
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Cloak, Korowai, candlewick and wool. Warps linked with double pair twining. The surface decorated with hukahuka tags of black wool and with coloured wool paheke, 116 x 116 cm. Provenance: Private collection America: Formerly in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum. Philadelphia museum label attached
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A good early Piupiu (waist garment) Kaupapa of natural and black and red dyed flax, framed in a glass display case. 106 x 93 cm
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Whale bone patu handle section, carved with a manaia head. Length 5.5 cm
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An early 19th century Mutu Kata (bird snare), made from a single piece of wood with carved wheku head to the front section, the horizontal perch terminating in a carved manaia head. Height 25 cm Length 26 cm
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Patu aruhe (fern root pounder). Length 31 cm
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Patu aruhe (fern root pounder). Length 33 cm
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Patu aruhe together with a swamp-recovered patu aruhe, the wood considerably degraded. Length 38 cm. Length 40 cm
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A large and impressive shark hook, formed from one piece of wood, mounted on fitted stand. One piece hooks of this size are very rare. They were used to harvest deep sea fish such as hapuka and shark.
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Two matau rino (iron fish hooks), both in degraded condition.
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Pa Kahawai (fishing lure), with paua shell shank, iron hook with muka lashing and original muka line. Length 13 cm
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Pa Kahawai (fishing lure), with wooden shank, paua shell inlay, bone hook with muka lashing & muka snood with original attached line. Length 12.5 cm
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Pa Kahawai (fishing lure), with wooden shank, paua shell inlay, bone hook with muka lashing & muka snood with original attached line. Length 11 cm
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Pa Kahawai (fishing lure), with wooden shank, paua shell inlay & iron hook. Length 9 cm
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Pa Kahawai (fishing lure), with paua shell shank and metal hook. Length 11 cm
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Pa Kahawai (fishing lure), with whale bone shank, paua shell inlay, whale bone hook attached with muka fibre & muka snood. Length 9.5 cm
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An unusual whale bone talisman pendant, with attached huia feather and cut paua shell disk.
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A bone bird spear tip, (Webster Collection No. 1468). Together with a paua shell hook, broken to the end section.
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Huia bird feather. Length 20 cm
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Huia bird feather. Length 20 cm
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Huia bird feather. Length 14 cm
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19th century taiaha with finely carved head with recessed paua shell eyes. Ate (tongue) with pakati notching terminating in a rounded tip. Length 137 cm
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19th century taiaha together with another taiaha of 20th century manufacture
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19th century patu pararoa (whale bone hand club), with large board blade reducing to the grip section with pierced countersunk suspension hole. Chipped to blade edge. Length 50 cm
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Okewa (bill hooked shaped club). A rare and early Chatham Islands Okewa made from schist stone with bill hooked shaped blade with curved handle. Repair to tip of the blade. Probably used by the Moriori on the Chatham Islands to kill seals. A similar example illustrated in Taonga Maori in the British Museum by Dorota C. Starzecka, Roger Neich and Mick Pendergrast. Plate 195, object 2082. Length 40 cm
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Maori Kuri dog skull, found in the Papanui Inlet in Otago in 1958
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A tokotoko (ceremonial carved walking stick), the handle carved in the form of an ancestral figure with protruding tongue and inset paua shell disk eyes. Length 89 cm
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Totara lintel carved with an ancestral figure, with hands placed to thighs and with paua shell eyes and tongue. His body adorned with rauponga spirals and pakati notching, 53 x 71 cm. Provenance: From the collection of James Ross
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A board carved with manaia figures and rauponga spirals, 40 x 36 cm
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A carved section of a paepae board (threshold board), red ochre painted finish. 65 x 18 cm
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Carved poupou (side wall panel), with frontal figure with wheku face, tongue protruding and hands placed to abdomen, 150 x 63 cm
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Albatross bone toggle, probably historically associated with a Koauau (end blown straight flute). Length 9 cm. Provenance: Collection of Len Castle
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A Maori stone sinker, incipient head to the top and with partially carved suspension hole. Height 7 cm. Provenance: From the collection of Len Castle
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Tene Waitere, a large and important carved panel, historically part of the Geyser Observation Rotunda at Whakarewarewa. The standing ancestral male figure with naturalistic face and body and incised facial tattoo. Carved wheku head to the abdomen, with Rauponga carving to the shoulders. The legs with kowhaiwhai designs with further rauponga carving. The figure surmounts a wheku head with rauponga carved detailing. Height 260 cm. Width 60 cm. Provenance: This important figural panel and the following lot…
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Tene Waitere, a large and important carved panel, historically part of the Geyser Observation rotunda at Whakarewarewa. The ancestral figure with wheku face with circular eyes above an open mouth bearing teeth. Hands placed together at the abdomen holding a smaller figure with wheku face. The carving matching that exhibited on the previous lot with rauponga detailing to the shoulders. The legs with kowhaiwhai designs with further rauponga carving. The figure surmounts a wheku head with rauponga carved…
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A pair of Amo boards, each carved with four figures with wheku face and paua shell eyes decorated with whakarare carved detail. Circa 1900. Height 370 cm. Width 30 cm. Provenance: Buried Village Collection. These amo have been on display at the Buried Village in association with the excavated whare puni (sleeping hut) of the important tohunga Tuhoto Ariki. One amo with split to top section and loss to the bottom section
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A pair of carved koruru, each carved as a wheku head with painted eyes, each 56 x 25 cm. Provenance: Buried Village collection
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Peter Hemi, a large tekoteko figure carved as a manaia surmounting a wheku face, each with paua shell eyes with extensive rauponga, kowhaiwhai and triple h'h' and pakati notching, 260 x 50 cm. Provenance: Buried Village collection
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Peter Hemi, Tekoteko. The robust figure carved crouching decorated with kowhaiwhai, triple haehae and pakati notching, 110 x 30 x 35 cm. Provenance: Buried Village collection
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Peter Hemi. Tekoteko. The carved crouching figure with incised and painted facial moko decorated with kowhaiwhai patterning. 106 x 16 x 25 cm. Provenance: Buried Village collection
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A set of four paepae (threshold boards), carved with wheku heads and with kowhaiwhai, triple haehae and pakati notching. Height 370 cm. Width 30 cm. Provenance: Buried Village collection
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An impressive pair of amo boards, ngapuhi tribal region. Carved with male and female warrior figures wearing piupiu. The female figures each holding a patu and the male figures holding kotiate and wahaika. Circa 1920. Height 240 cm. Provenance: Formerly in the Wagner museum collection.Houhora, North of Kaitaia. Exhibited 2004: New York International tribal art show
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An unusual Maori coffer, the red ochre painted doors carved and pierced with takarangi spirals. Framed by pillars carved in high relief with ancestral figures each with wheku face. The sides further carved in low relief with figures in front and side profile. Width 51 cm. Height 32 cm
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A poupou (house board) carved with a full frontal figure, with wheku head and paua disc eyes Rauponga carving to the shoulders, the lower section with a manaia figure carved in side profile. Circa 1910. Length 66 cm
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A good pounamu Hei Tiki by Mike Higgs, Kawakawa variety. Modelled with titled head and one three fingered hand place to the abdomen the other to the thigh. Length 9 cm
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Kapeu pounamu by Mike Higgs, Kawakawa variety with pieced suspension hole. Length 10 cm
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Kapeu pounamu by Mike Higgs, Kawakawa variety with pieced suspension hole. Length 6.5 cm
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A pounamu pekapeka (neck pendant) by Mike Higgs, Kawakawa variety
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A silver belt buckle attributed to Anton Teutenberg, decorated with crossed rifles and taiaha within a foliate scroll boarder. Length 20 cm Height 7 cm
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Gourd decorated with a kowhaiwhai design in the manner of Theo Schoon. Height 24 cm
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Carved hardwood club. Length 57 cm
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Maori folk art tokotoko. Length 80 cm
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Two carved ebonised Maori folk art vesta boxes, together with an ash tray and bread fork with tiki finial
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A collection of three letter knives, (two wooden, one metal) and two teaspoons (one wooden, one metal)
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Maori folk art cloak, carved in the form of a pataka (storehouse). Height 20 cm. Width 19 cm
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A large piece of polished kauri gum. Length 24 cm. Width 24 cm
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Ceramic vase decorated with tiki form, with manaia form to reverse, mottled green glaze. Height 24 cm
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Carved folk art lizard with cut paua shell eyes, together with a folk art jewellery box with pokerwork koru decoration
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Two Folk art jewellery boxes each carved with wheku heads
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Carved folk art bust of a chief with ta moko and with huia feather adornment. Height 14 cm
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Two folk art boxes of cylindrical shape, each carved with a wheku head to the lid
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Carved bust of a Maori chief raised on a cylindrical stand inscribed ‘Kaikoura’. Height 24 cm
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20th century carved waka huia of elongated oval shape, the top carved with a figure with protruding tongue and hands to abdomen. Each end with a projecting wheku head. Length 37 cm
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20th century carved waka huia, the elongated oval bowl supported by two crouching figures, the head of each integral to the lid. Length 30 cm
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Kauri carved Maori bust with angular facial plane with incised ta moko and inset paua shell eyes, 31 x 15 cm
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Maori figure with paua disc eyes carved holding a patu aloft. Height 40 cm
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Tekoteko figure holding a patu, standing on a base carved with wheku and manaia with paua shell eyes, 40 x 28 cm
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Rimu deeds box of rectangular shape, the lid carved with an image of Tomika Te Mutu, chief of the Ngaiteragi tribe, 70 x 34 cm
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Ceremonial taiaha carved by Fred Graham. Length 118 cm
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An ebonised folk figure with wheku face and paua shell eyes. Length 45 cm
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1950’s folk art match stick table, the top with two opposing figures with wheku heads, 500 x 96 cm
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New Zealand Kauri folk art chip carved deeds box with a starburst design to the front and sides. Width 45 cm
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Pair of 1930’s folk art steel and aluminium bookends cast as wheku heads painted black and red, diameter 14 cm
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Cast metal figure of a Maori chief made to commemorate the Rotorua carnival in 1932
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Tekoteko figure with wheku head and paua shell eyes with three finger hand placed to abdomen. Height 120 cm
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Ngati Tarawhai tekoteko figure with painted and incised facial tattoo, three finger hands placed to abdomen, standing on a square section base. Height 90 cm
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Titian studio pottery vase brown glazed with kowhaiwhai form handles, incised number 262 to the base. Height 21 cm
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Concrete cast garden planter decorated with wheku heads with green painted finish, 24 x 24 cm
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Carved wheku head panel with paua shell eyes. Length 75 cm
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Carved wheku head panel, 60 x 120 cm
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Carved Maori mask with full facial tattoo. Length 28 cm
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Oceanic vessel, turned black maire wood with applied patinated copper. Height 53 cm Depth 46 cm
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