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The Richard Berry Collection - Part 2, Day 1 — Young's Auctions (No longer trading)

Auction House:Young's Auctions (No longer trading)Number of lots recorded:521
Sale Title:The Richard Berry Collection - Part 2, Day 1Lots with images:513
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:454
Date:29-Mar-2009
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Tribal drum, Gulf of Papua, deep ribbed incised lines with red, white and black colouring, lizard skin and grass binding
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Two (2) spears. East Solomon Islands, the first inlaid with shell, figural carving and deep serrated tip, the other has shell inlay and shallow serrated tip. 278 cm each
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Four (4) hair combs, Tonga. Displaying fine and detailed woven craftsmanship. 17 cm, 20 cm and 21 cm
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Three (3) hair combs. Pacific Islands. Woven cane and fibre with intricate design work. 24, 21, and 20 cm
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Two (2) hair combs. Melanesia. Coconut wood with resin and fibre bindings. 33 and 24 cm
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Head rest. Huon, Papua New Guinea. Unusual figurative headrest with pipe clay highlights. Canoe prow profile under support. 16 cm
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Ancestral figure, huon, Papua New Guinea, ornately carved double-sided wooden figure, remains of red, black and white ochre decoration
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Food scoop. Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea. Flat scoop with figural carving and pipe clay handle. 57 cm
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Fijian throwing club (Ula tavatava), with a bulbous fluted end, hand-grip with pecked and feathered design, 19th century
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Lime Spatula. Milne Bay. With carved figural handle. The shaft also carved with swirling motifs. 69 cm
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Lime Spatula. Milne Bay. Long slender form with carved finial and collar. Quadraform shaft and fine blade. 84 cm
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Paddle club. Samoan origin. Leaf shaped with tapering shaft and carved handle. 19th century patina. 130 cm
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Dance pole. Solomon Islands. Broad and long paddle shape, carved with triangle and diamond patterns. 192 cm
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Club. Samoan origin. Sword shaped club, each side adorned with a single raised line terminating at the tip. 19th century. 124 cm
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Dance ornament, New Ireland origin, of double phallic form. 19th century patina. 129 cm
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Club. Solomon Islands, sword shaped with single raised line on each side. 114 cm
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Club. Vanuatu. Eight pointed star head on a tapering shaft, with (part) disc shaped carved hand-grip. 93 cm
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Club. Vanuatu. Slender tapered head on long shaft terminating in a pointed hand-grip. 23.5 cm
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Club. Vanuatu. Bulbous head with two raised bands. Slender handle with (part) carved disc shaped hand-grip 94 cm
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Club. Fiji. Rifle stock shaped club. Pecked inner edge, woven fibre bound shaft and mushroom grip. 95 cm
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Club. Fiji. Rifle stock shaped club. Pecked inner edge and mushroom grip. 82 cm
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Club. Fiji. Rifle stock shaped club. Slender form, pecked inner edge and mushroom grip. 94 cm
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Gugu war club, Tonga, of flat form shaped club with intricate incised decoration on one side
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Paddle. North Solomon Islands. Blade (part missing) decorated with totemic designs in black, red and white colouration. 152 cm
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Paddle club. Tahiti. Intricately decorated with bands of incised parallel lines. Shaft damaged and repaired. 112 cm
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Club. Pacific Islands. Long, slender plain form with remains of woven fibre hand-grip. 108 cm
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Canoe prow. New Ireland. Figural prow in carved form of a bird, remains of red, black and white colouration. 28 cm
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Bone and bead necklace, double strand of black and red trade beads interwoven with claw shaped carved bone features
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Coral money, a string of 55 coral discs holed and strung, used for trading
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Arm band. Woven fibre adorned with 4 discs of coral money. 12 cm
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Purse. New Guinea. Shaped woven fibre pouch with shell decoration to the front. 11 cm
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Necklace, New Guinea, a single strand of dogs teeth each patterned with incised decoration, cotton string with coloured trade bead spacers.
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Dilly bag. New Guinea. Finely woven with bands of natural colour pigment, decorated with shells 43 cm
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Dilly bag. New Guinea. Two tone banded and patterned design. 0 cm
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Bowl. Deep long canoe shaped dish. Exterior with carved decoration. 71 cm
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Kava bowl. In the form of a bird with incised carving and remains of white ochre. 47 cm
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Kava bowl. With inlaid mother of pearl decoration, finials carved with bird and dolphin motif
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Bowl. Canoe shaped with exterior carving of 2 snakes on each side. 41 cm
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Lime spatula. Papua New Guinea. Flat square handle carved with totemic designs. 41 cm
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Papua New Guinea head rest of circular form with square central pillar and four angled supports
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Samoan double edged sword shaped throwing club, serrated and terminating in a sharp tip
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Shark tooth club. Kiribati. Four rows of sharks teeth bound with natural fibre on a palm wood shaft. 109 cm
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Stone disc club. Papua New Guinea. Circular stone head on a tapering shaft. Woven fibre binding at distal end. 79 cm
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Three (3) dance ornaments/clubs. Vanuatu. All with serrated edges, two with decorative carving and one with blue and white colouration. 50, 84 and 90 cm
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Python snake skin
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Two (2) short swords, steel blades, one decorated with a series of short parallel lines, carved wooden scabbard for one, the other in a fibre bound cane sheath.
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Spear. New Ireland. Fine wooden shaft with obsidian volcanic glass tip, mounted in gum resin and carved with triangular design. Remains of colouration. 148 cm
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Three (3) walking sticks, New Guinea and Pacific Islands, one Palm wood, one Milne Bay with carved handle (inscribed Kei Keia La) and one with carved figural handle. 82, 90 and 120 cm
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Three (3) spears. Pacific Islands. All barbed with quills, bands of figural carvings, remains of ochre and woven fibre decoration. 310, 320 and 331 cm
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Two (2) spears. Papua New Guinea, one adorned with fibre, feather and shell decoration, the other with a stylised barbed tip carved in the form of fish eating fish. 220 and 266 cm
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Three (3) spears. Papua New Guinea. Bamboo shafts, wooden tips with woven fibre bindings. 216, 221 and 258 cm
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Three (3) spears. Papua New Guinea. One with carved decoration and barbed tip, one plain, the last with serrated tip. 203, 211 and 212 cm
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Three (3) spears. Papua New Guinea. One plain, one with broad head and remains of colouration, the other with barbed tip. 218, 227 and 229 cm
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Five (5) spears. Pacific Islands and New Guinea .
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Harpoon. Pacific Islands. Hand wrought steel 3-pronged harpoon. 35 cm
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Tikau. (war spear.) Fiji. Wooden shaft with an oversized cascading barbed tip. 178 cm
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Four (4) spears. Samoa and Vanuatu. All with finely carved barbed tips. 153, 197, 220 and 235 cm
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Two (2) bows. Melanesia. One strung and bound with natural fibre. 161 and 180 cm
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Three (3) bows. Papua New Guinea. One with bound fibre hand-grip. No strings attached. 161, 182 and 185 cm
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Bow and arrows. Papua New Guinea. Bamboo bow (19th century) and 7 bamboo arrows with wooden tips. Bow length; 187 cm
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Collection of tribal artefacts. Includes a carvedPapua New Guinea food bowl, Indonesian bamboo canister, carved pig, spoon, gourd, carved figural ceremonial ornament and dance ornament.
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Carved timber mask, Sepik river, decorated with incised features and markings, protruding nose, coloured and dotted in earthy pigment, kauri shell decoration
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Five (5) spear and arrow tips. Papua New Guinea and Pacific Islands.
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Three (3) artefacts. Includes carved wooden adze handle (Milne Bay), timber axe head and New Guinea stone axe with wood and woven cane handle.
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Four (4) artefacts. Includes Milne Bay walking stick with carved crocodile motif, Tahitian wooden axe, carved crocodile figure with coloured decoration and a pair of Samoan paddles.
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Collection of Pacific Island artefacts. Includes a carved figural 2-section bowl, woven fibre headband, woven baskets, Papua New Guinea nut dish, spoon, gourd bottle, shell and nuts.
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Three (3) sword clubs. Pacific Islands. Each pecked with bands of triangular decoration and remains of white ochre. 52, 73 and 82 cm
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Collection of Indonesian artefacts. Includes a figured rice paddle, Kris with wooden handle and hilt, sword handle of carved bone and hair plus a wooden scabbard.
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Collection of Melanesian and tribal artefacts. Includes a carved canoe, bamboo dagger, horn and timber canister, carved comb handle and buffalo horn.
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Model of outrigger canoe, single hull with carved top, gunwales attached with braided fibre, applied kauri shell decoration.
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Canister. Pacific Islands. Carved coconut shell with applied nut shell rattles and woven fibre rope.
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Canoe prow figurehead (Nguzunguzu), Solomon Islands, carved figural mask face resting on hands, incised lines and pipe clay highlights
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Basket, Pacific Islands, woven cane, oval shape with attached handle. 62 cm
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Two (2) baskets. Pacific Islands. Woven cane with braided fibre handles.
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Smoking pipe. Pacific Islands. Bamboo cylinder decorated with pokerwork zig-zag and cross decoration. 68 cm
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Basket. Central African. Woven cane and leather. Applied shells and trade beads with string fibre. Late 19th century. 21 cm
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Head rest, African, carved timber with curved head rest, winged by two vertical panels of pecked decoration, supported on a 'X' shaped centrepiece with incised carved decoration, the oval plinth base with incised 'V' shaped markings
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Head rest, African, Yoruba tribe, West African, carved timber with curved head rest, triangular and linear decoration to the neck rest, the central pedestal incised with zig-zag and circular motifs resting on a double oval plinth base
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Whip. African. Rhinoceros tail bound with 3 bands of woven coloured wire. 70 cm
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Ceremonial sword. West African. Carved timber with figural handle, twist shaft and tapering pointed blade. 85 cm
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Knobkerrie. Zulu tribe, South Africa. Heavy and smooth spherical head with long handle. 65 cm
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Two (2) clubs. Unknown source area, probably African. One with pecked hand-grip and rhinoceros hide decoration, the other with bulbous head and hand-grip with pointed ends 120 cm, 125 cm
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Throwing club. African. Tapering cylindrical form with carved snake coiling along the shaft. Glass bead eye and lead filled distal end. 42 cm
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Five (5) stone tools. Three stone axe heads of New Guinea origin. Two arrow heads, one stone and one obsidian volcanic glass.
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Breast plate, North American Indian Cree tribe, warrior's armour or ceremonial breast plate, with two rows of horizontal bone hair pipe intersected by rows of beads, and buffalo hide and buckskin tassels, with convex pink shell adornment to top with beaded strap. Attached label reads, 'Cree Tribe, File Hills Reservation, Saskatchewan.'
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Two pairs of moccasins, North American Indian, single piece buckskin with centre seam and pucker-toe, original leather bindings.
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Two (2) native skirts, Pacific Islands, one pandanus grass from Trobian Islands (for an un-married girl), the other a woven fibre
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Sea turtle shell. South Pacific. 48 cm
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Naive tribal figure. An interesting piece of unknown origin. Constructed from gumnut and acacia seeds, bone, plywood, glass and wire. With a glass dome. 23 cm
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Crosse and Blackwell' porcelain advertising plaque. Depicting the shop-front in Soho Square, London. Manufactured by T. J. and J. Mayer. Circa 1850 32.5 x 25 cm
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Pratt Ware jug. Tapered body with two cameos of children, titled 'Summer' and 'Autumn'. Registration stamp on base for 1874. 21 cm
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Pratt Ware pot and lid, with a scene depicting a school bully and victim, entitled 'The Wolf and the Lamb'
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Pratt Ware pot lid, depicting a market scene with a man smoking a pipe and a woman selling chickens
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Dewar's Perth Whisky' porcelain advertising plaque. A comical scene entitled 'The Whisky of His Forefathers'. By W. T. Copeland & Sons. 16 cm diameter
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Whisky advertising ware. A Jeroboam 'Thistle Blend' stoneware decanter and Walker's Whisky tray.
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English porcelain jug. Early 19th century with hand painted Chinoiserie scene. 13 cm
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English ironstone plaque. An unusual piece in the form of a jug. Floral transfer design and Greek key patterned rim. 25 cm
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Two (2) German porcelain figures. 'Tam O'Shanter' and Souter Johnnie'. Hand painted with titles in gilt on the front. Signed on the underside, 'Made in Germany'. 15 cm each
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Tin glazed earthenware apostle bowl. Entitled 'St Jean Baptiste'. Hand painted underglaze portrait of St John holding a staff, accompanied by a lamb. Mid to late 17th century. 23.5 cm diameter
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Joseph Olerys. Moustier faience covered dish. Shallow circular body with matching lid. Polychrome glaze with hand painted Renaissance style scenes of Bacchus, goblins, knaves, birds, animals and foliage. Monogrammed under lid, 'J O.S.C' 26 cm diam. Height; 10 cm
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