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Christmas Emporium — Davidson Auctions

Auction House:Davidson AuctionsNumber of lots recorded:468
Sale Title:Christmas EmporiumLots with images:466
Auction Location:SydneyPrices available:355
Date:9-Dec-2018
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Aboriginal, aged fish killing club, NSW. Flattened oval form, length 46 cm
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Aboriginal small club, NSW. Mission decorated in oil paint. Early 20th century, length 47 cm
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Aboriginal churinga, WA. Finely incised geometric decoration to one side, length 46 cm
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Didgeridoo. Various animal totems. Acquired early 1980s from Wesley or Central Methodist Mission, Sydney, ochres on hardwood, length 126 cm
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Aboriginal bone coffin. Yirrkala, Northern Territory. Ex collection Lord McAlpine and Joan Bowers. Totemic animal decoration, with stand, height 171 cm
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Didgeridoo. Northern Territory. Banded ochre decoration, length 127 cm
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Two ceremonial dance spears. Tiwi Islands. Carved hardwood with ochre decoration and use patina. Shortened shafts, length 110 cm
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Two Micronesian dance wands, c1950s. Finely carved and painted, length 83 cm (each)
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Aboriginal shield, WA. Le Grange Bay. Incised geometric stoneworked decoration. Natural earth pigment, length 75 cm
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Aboriginal parrying shield. Early to mid 20th century mulga wood shield with good patination. Age crack verso, length 61 cm
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Aboriginal fighting club, nulla nulla. Hardwood club with bulbous terminal. Good age patina, length 53 cm
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Aboriginal shield, Eastern Queensland. Oval shield with inset handle. Decorated with watercolour landscape to face. Damage and losses, length 66 cm
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Aboriginal shield. Curved oval form with integral handle, ochre decoration. Queensland, length 75 cm
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Early boomerang, WA. Stoneworked. Acacia wood, wide aerofoil section, length 59 cm
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Early Australian boomerang. Stone worked with traces of original red ochre. With gift inscription in ink, dated 1929-1930, length 66 cm
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Aged boomerang, Queensland. Mildly curved hardwood with incised spindle decoration. Old mounting hole wax filled, length 76 cm
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Early ceremonial dance woomera, WA. Stoneworked incised decoration to one face. Small to edge, length 70 cm
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Two Aboriginal message sticks. With traces of original ochre decoration. Very dark age patina, length 34 cm and 28 cm
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Aboriginal carved wood message stick. Incised geometric decoration. Very fine striated tips. Natural earth pigments, length 60 cm
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Aboriginal message stick, Tennant Creek. Anular incised decoration. Natural earth pigments, length 8m
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Aboriginal message stick, Tennant Creek. Anular and track decoration. Fire hardened edges, length 75 cm
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Aboriginal message stick, WA Le Grange Bay. Incised geometric decoration to one side, length 83 cm
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Aboriginal message stick, WA. Incised geometric decoration and natural eath pigment, length 44 cm
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Aboriginal carved wood message stick. Incised geometric decoration. Very fine striated tips. Natural earth pigments, length 64 cm
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Two various hardwood message sticks. Incised decorations, length 48 cm (longest)
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Large 19th century New Zealand nephrite hei-tiki. Red sealing wax eyes, suspended on a plaited flax cord with an aged bone toggle. With GSL gemstone authentication report #AA28759/5, 125 x 63 mm, total weight 267.2g
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19th century Trobriand Islands priest's staff. Staff head carved with 2 squatting back to back human figures. Provenance: ex collection of Capt W Campbell Thomson, Pickles Auctions Sept 5th 1986, lot 143. Catalogue included, length 137 cm
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Western Pacific hardwood club. Vanuatu. Curved hardwood shaft with use patina. Small loss to head, length 8 cm
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Fine hardwood food bowl. Tami or Siassi Island, Huon Gulf, Papua New Guinea. Collected in 1965 by Joe Ketish, length 59 cm
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19th century adze handle, Sepik river area. Finely carved with a lizard motive at the top of the axe, and the handle ending in a crocodile head, length 54 cm
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Trobiand Island fingerdrum. Incised lime filled decoration, height 74 cm
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Papua New Guinea ancestor figure. Maprik. Traces of natural earth pigments. Various losses, height 56 cm (incl. Stand)
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Old canoe ornament. Swagap village, upper Sepik. In the form of 2 stylized birds, collected 1965, height 90 cm
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Two Baule people, buffalo masks (goli). Liberia, African. These type of masks are used in a special dance of rejoicing called Goli, symbolizing the social order, this mask, Kplekple, represents the junior male. It is among the most abstract of traditional African masks, height 53 cm (each)
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Old Massim carving. Possibly from a canoe or yam house. Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, height 41 cm
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Batak figure, Lake Toba, Sumatera, Indonesia. Provenance: ex Dr Peter Elliot collection (1927-2014). The collection amassed over six decades until his death, spans Australian and Aborigianal Art, Asian Art and Oceanic Art and artefacts, particularly from Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines, height 32
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Papua New Guinea long house guardian spirit. Carved wooden, height 64 cm
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Batak ritual Implement, Lake Toba, Sumatera, Indonesia. Provenance: ex Dr Peter Elliot collection (1927-2014). The collection amassed over six decades until his death, spans Australian and Aboriginal Art, Asian Art and Oceanic Art and artefacts, particularly from Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines, length 75 cm
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Two Dan masks. Ivory coast, Africa. Both on custom-made bases of high quality, height 25 cm (tallest)?
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Two Kuba raffia Weavings. Democratic Republic of Congo. In box frames, 60 x 55 cm (approx) each
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Native American Indian doll. Finely carved and painted in soft ochre colours, height 36 cm
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Three Native American Indian dolls. All finely carved and painted in soft ochre colours and paint, height 42 cm (tallest)
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Three Inuit serpentine stone pieces, Canada. Seal dated 1977 (16 cm); a strange fish (18 cm); and a bird figure, transformation by Joe Equilaw (24 cm). Some damages
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Pair Inuit stone figures, Canada. Finely carved in green mottled stone depicting family, of a mother, father and two children. Signed on base of foot, height 22 cm (tallest)
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Sepik river carved figure. Mens meeting house fertility figure. With natural earth pigments. Small losses to figure and pigment, height 143 cm
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Old Kanak bird head club, New Caledonia, length 64 cm
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Old dance mask, Sepik. The classic bird man mask from the coast Sepik and Ramu area, ex Elizabeth Pert collection Queensland, height 52 cm
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Two Papua New Guinea masks. Carved wooden masks with cowrie shell inlaid eyes and natural earth pigments, length 50 cm and 55 cm
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Old Massim dance paddle, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, length 69 cm
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Ancestor figure. Chamba people, Nigeria. Provenance: ex collection Viktor Ischenko, Germany. Chamba spirituality is premised on a creator solar god (Su) and ancestor spirits who live with this creator. The sun god does not interact with living beings, but the ancestor spirits do. [3] the dead (wurumbu) are believed to continue living, but they live below the ground, follow the same style and sophistication as humans, but they are believed to be wiser and with supernatural power. Special people among the…
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Ancient wood horn, Sepik. With bamboo lime container, Sepik 37 cm, height 56 cm (horn) H37 cm (drum
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Tau Tau ancestor figure. Sulawesi. Articulated construction. Various losses, height 89 cm (incl. Stand)
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Oceanic mask. Traces of original pigment, height 21 cm
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Drum, April river, upper Sepik. Probably stone carved with deep incised clan designs and was collected in 1965 by Joe Ketish, height 51 cm
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Two Keris. Mindanao keris with flamboyant blade (length 71 cm); and Dayak mandau sword (length 66 cm)
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Nias Island sword, Indonesia. Small damages to hilt, length 65 cm
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19th century Javanese Keris knife. Pamor blade, length 50 cm
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4 old bone daggers. Sepik river, Papua New Guinea. Collected 1965, length 39 cm (longest)
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Mumuye ancestor figure, Nigeria, Africa. Within Nigeria's Benue river valley region, such representations have been associated with a range of functions, incl. Reinforcement of the status of male elders and used by healers and diviners in arriving at diagnoses. The flexible nature of tradition is reflected in the fact that a single figure May fulfil several roles, height 63 cm
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Three African wooden items. Mancala game board (lenth 62 cm); carved ladle (length 63 cm); and carved bowl raised on 4 legs (length 46 cm)
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Abelam lintel head. Decorated with polychrome natural pigments, height 43 cm
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Two Papua New Guinea gope boards. Both with natural earth pigments. One with human head form terminal, length 82 cm and 86 cm
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Two New Guinea carvings, including Thai carving, height '52m, 73 cm H95 cm (thai carving)
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Abelam wood head, c1960s, height 30 cm
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Large dance mask, Congo, Africa, height 51 cm
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10 tribal pieces. From various cultures, height 25 cm (largest)
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Micronesian warrior figure. Probably Yap or Pulau Island. Finely carved in hardwood, height 52 cm
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Two blow guns and darts. Kandrian area, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. The 2 bamboo blow guns are in 3 sections, each one being 3 length s (180 cm) each and the 2nd in 3 length s (160 cm) each. In New Guinea only the people of West New Britain made and used blow guns for hunting birds in the forest. This effective technology is widely used by the Dayak people on the island of Borneo in Indonesia, and how and when it arrived to this one area of New Guinea is unknown. These 2 exanples were collected in…
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Pair hardwood ancestor figures. Sumba Island, Indonesia. Provenance: ex Dr Peter Elliot collection (1927-2014). The collection amassed over six decades until his death, spans Australian and Aboriginal Art, Asian Art and Oceanic Art and artefacts, particularly from Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines, height 56 cm (tallest)
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Three various Papua New Guinea masks. Each with cowrie shell inlaid eyes, natural earth pigments, height 49 cm (tallest)
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Papua New Guinea food hook and gope board. With natural earth pigments, length 68 cm (each)
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Tribal carpet, Persia (?). Baluch tribal rug in tones of red, blue and cream, 248 x 163 cm
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Ceremonial skull rack. Sepik river area, height 60 cm
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Two New Guinea Highlands drums. Both with incised clan designs (missing skin and some small damages), height 66 cm (tallest)
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Basket hook, Sepik river, height 71 cm
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Mt Hagen stone axe. Woven cane binding and stone head, length 63 cm
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Hugo, Apa (Papua New Guinea artist), 'Diprent faces Blong Ol man Meri,' 1996, acrylic on paper, 47 x 70.5 cm
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Three old Massim figures, c1920-1930s, height 35 cm (tallest)
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Old drum. Green river, upper Sepik, collected 1965, height 114 cm
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Papua New Guinea Baba mask Abelam. Woven rattan construction. Natural pigments, height 55 cm (incl. Stand)
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Papua New Guinea coastal spirit mask. White ochre painted long mask with overmodeled shells, feathers and boars teeth., length 106 cm (incl feathers)
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Two Indonesian wealth objects. Lola Mamsan Toraja (Sulawesi). Torus form. Embossed brass and cloth construction, diameter 42 cm
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Carved Lobi couple, Burkina Faso, Africa. Ex Rene David collection, Switzerland, height 24 cm
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Dance shield. Carved geometric decoration and natural earth pigments, length 83 cm
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Garra mask. Hunstien mountains area, East Sepik Province Papua New Guinea, height 87 cm
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4 old stone pieces, New Guinea, including 2 ancient stone club heads, a large pierced magic stone and a stone figure, diameter 21 cm (stone club head)
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Solomon Islands mortar/bowl with shell inlay, height 30 cm
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Early 20th century Massim mortar and pestle. Finely carved mortar with Janus heads and incised designs and old patina, 22 cm (mortar) 17 cm (pestle)
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Three Papua New Guinea mask form betel nuts, height 4.5 cm
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Large old Kap Kap ornament. Motu people, central Province, Papua New Guinea. Collected c1950 by Joe Ketish, diameter 18 cm
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Three African whistles, length 10.5 cm, 12 cm and 14 cm
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Old Suku figure and old mortar, Congo, height 34 cm (figure) 24 cm (mortar)
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4 New Guinea hair combs, 20 cm (largest)
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Two vintage Dan masks, Liberia, Africa. Ex Dallas Texas collection, before 1970, height 24 cm (longest)
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5 various old tribal pieces. Including small Sepik birdman figure and early Massim figure, length 35 cm (longest)
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14th century Thailand Sawankhalok figure. Head re-attached and chipped, height 14.5 cm
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Three Dan masks, Liberia, Africa, including bronze African passport mask; and two small greenstone maskettes, height 22 cm (largest) approx 6 cm (maskettes)
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Three Dayak pieces, including poison dart mortar and pestle and a small bowl, 28 cm
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Three old stone implements. Papua New Guinea, height 13 cm 15 cm and 16 cm
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9 various Oceanic tribal carvings and two bowls, 15 cm (stone head)
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