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Maori & Pacific Artefacts — Dunbar Sloane Ltd.

Auction House:Dunbar Sloane Ltd.Number of lots recorded:174
Sale Title:Maori & Pacific ArtefactsLots with images:41
Auction Location:AucklandPrices available:123
Date:18-Nov-2009
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Cast of Rongo, God of Cultivated Food, especially the kumara, a vital Maori food crop. Cast by Auckland Museum with original stamp. H. 34 cm
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Cast Only of 17th Maori carved panel, the original lodged with the Auckland Museum. H. 89 cm
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Piece of Greenstone. Length 19 cm x D. 3 cm, width 4 cm
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Large Maori Late 18th century Stone Pounder. Length 26 cm
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Two Stone Adzes. One the tip of a much larger adze. Length 13 cm. & 14 cm (smaller adze). /14023
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19th century Maori bird trough, well worn. Length 150 cm
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Early 20th century Maori Taiaha, unfinished. Length 156 cm
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Maori Wooden Paddle, c. 19th century Length 149 cm
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20th century Maori Partial Wooden Canoe Seat with hole at one end, the other end missing. Length 99 cm
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Late 19th century carved Maori wooden tiki face. H. 45 cm
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19th century Maori Fighting Wooden Club. Length 112 cm
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19th century Maori Wooden Digging Stick. Length 65 cm
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Two 19th century Maori Wooden Paddles from the Waikato Lakes, but poor condition. Length 137 cm & 119 cm. /14026
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19th century Maori Wooden Paddle, Waikato Lakes Region. Length 150 cm
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Part of a 19th century Maori Digging Stick, in poor condition. Length 174 cm
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Small 19th century Maori Digging Stick. Length 75 cm
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Late 19th century Maori Wooden Paddle, Waikato Lakes. Length 141 cm
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19th century Maori Kumera Weeder. Length 84.5 cm
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Three 19th century Wooden Digging Sticks. Length 125 cm, 137 cm & 173 cm. /14016/14017
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Three 19th century Maori Wooden Digging Sticks. Length 131 cm, 151 cm (crude) & 208 cm. /14032
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20th century Maori Wooden Pole, shaped at each end. Believed to be Waikato Lakes region. Length 202 cm
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19th century Maori Wooden Digging Stick, Length 202 cm
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19th century Maori digging stick (shaped). Length 177 cm
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19th century Maori Wooden Digging Stick from the Waikato Region. Length 181 cm
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Very Long 18th century Wooden Digging Stick, with shaped knob at one end and pointed at the other end. Length 235 cm
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Three Maori 19th century Digging Sticks. Length 112 cm, 97 cm & 54 cm. /13978/13979
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Modern Tewhatewha & Modern Taiaha. Length 120 cm & 160 cm
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H. Rudd Maori Portrait Watercolour Initialled. 24 cm x 19 cm
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H. Rudd Maori Portrait Watercolour Initialled 20.5 cm x 15 cm
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H. Rudd Maori Portrait Watercolour Initialled 20.5 cm x 15 cm
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Bronze 19th century Fishing Hook. Length 7 cm
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Maori Wooden Tao with carved face, on lower portion of shaft. Length 163 cm
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Maori Carved Tokotoko (Talking Stick), with carved fern leaf decoration. Length 73 cm
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Maori Carved Wooden Walking Stick with elongated bulbous grip, figures, faces and geometric patterns. Length 92 cm
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Maori Wooden Carved Inkwell Holder with paua shell insets. Length 19 cm. H. 4 cm
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Maori Carved Folk Art Blotter with paua shell decoration
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Maori Carved Wooden Folk Art Nut Cracker with brass ends. Length 21.5 cm
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Small Carved Maori Wooden Bust, with hands on abdomen and paua shell eyes. H. 15 cm
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Small Carved Maori Wooden Bust. H. 9 cm
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Small Carved Maori Wooden Bust with painted detail. H. 9 cm
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Carved African (Congo) Wooden Head/Face with decoration of blue and yellow inset beads on cheeks, eyes and nose, circular section on top of head, carved in squares and decorated with iron nails
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Australian Aboriginal Throwing Stick. Length 67 cm
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Trobiand Island Sword Club. Length 63.5 cm
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Fijian Pole Club. Chip-carved geometric decoration (partly infilled) on grip. Length 79.5 cm
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Western Solomons club, vertical line decoration at spatula end. Length 124 cm
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Tikopia Island (Far East Solomons) Heavy Club. Geometric notched edge at base of grip, and two bands of carved horizontal lines, centre and bottom of club end (with some infill remaining). Length 79 cm
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Fjian Gata Club, knob end. Length 97 cm
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Fijian Kia Karo Club with woven geometric design cover over shaft. Length 86 cm
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Fijian Pole Club with Carved Grip. Length 60 cm
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Fijian Ula Club. Length 38 cm
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Papua New Guinea shield (collected mid 1960s). Ochre and white coloured decoration with carved grip. Length 153 cm
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Pacific Islands Paddle. Length 171 cm
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CarvedPapua New Guinea Hook-style Figure from Misingi Village, Papua New Guinea. Length 140 cm
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Carved Ancestor Figure, Asmat People,Papua New Guinea. H. 67 cm
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Melanesian carved wooden chief's seat. Length 70 cm x. Width 30 cm. Depth 25 cm
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Cook Islands carved wooden God figure with three smaller figures on the abdomen. H. 76 cm
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Australian Aboriginal Bark Painting and a Melanesian Face Mask inset with shells. Painting Length 40 cm, mask 63 cm
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Melanesian carved wooden figure with shell inset eyes, and a New Ireland (?) carved statue. H. 32 cm and 58 cm
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Two Melanesian Carved Wooden Face Masks both painted and inset with shells, one with plaited fringe of coconut fibre representing beard. H. 67 cm & 55 cm
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A Fijian Long Club with Finely Carved Handle and Two Long Pacific Island Spears. Club Length 111 cm, Spears Length 214 cm & 225 cm
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Australian Aboriginal Wooden Wunda Shield with natural pigment decoration. Length 73 cm
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Australian Aboriginal Wooden Throwing Stick. Length 65 cm
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Australian Aboriginal Boomerang. Length 66 cm
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Carved Tongan Islands Wooden Gaffe. Shaft with five sections of carving, the metal hook bound in two places to shaft with fine twisted cord. Length 84 cm
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South Pacific Islands Wooden Throwing Spear with small amount of decoration at one end. Length 247 cm
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Long Wooden Fijian Islands/Solomon Islands Spear. Provenance: Given to a New Zealand Army Officer during the occupation World War II, for saving a Chief's son from drowning as he was swept down a river. Tip needs to be reattached, current Length 287 cm
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Early 20th century whalebone vertebr' now used as a seat. Depth 33 cm
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Granite Egg Shaped Boulder. Length 15 cm
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Carved Classical Scene Cameo Shell Lamp. Working, but repair needed to one leg. H. 23 cm
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Santa Cruz Islands Canoe-shaped Dance Wand with hand painted decoration, for use during iniatory dances for young men-to-be and tapering to a knob end. Splits in wood. Length 78 cm
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Pacific Islands Stone Pounder. H. 10 cm
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Two woven flax bags c. 1870, of very good quality, Melanesian Islands area
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Two Unfinished Melanesian Woven Flax Waistbands and a little flax front piece. Provenance: Ex Captain Tilly Estate
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Large Pacific Islands Hafted Adze. Traverse lashing around greenish stone adze, timber handle with good patina. Length 53 cm
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