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Maori & Oceanic Art, Day 2 — Dunbar Sloane Ltd.

Auction House:Dunbar Sloane Ltd.Number of lots recorded:201
Sale Title:Maori & Oceanic Art, Day 2Lots with images:190
Auction Location:WellingtonPrices available:155
Date:5-Oct-2022
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Four lithographic prints depicting early contact in New Zealand, cook, astrolabe, and others. Some foxing. 27 cm x 39 cm
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Fijian tabua (ceremonial marine ivory tooth), attached woven fibre necklace. 16 cm length
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Fijian tabua (ceremonial marine ivory tooth), attached woven binding. 15 cm length
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Fijian tabua (ceremonial marine ivory tooth), attached sennit binding.
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A fine Fijian Wasekaseka whale tooth necklace, composed of thirty-one cut, curved and polished sections of sperm whale tooth, pierced and strung on twisted coconut fibre, the teeth well patinated. One tooth broken
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Scrimshaw whales tooth, seascape scene with whale, ship, and sailors in a row boat. 14 cm length
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An 18th Fijian century kava bowl, wooden kava bowl with four legs, one pierced for suspension; large bowls of this kind are cut from a single block. A fine patina of use to the interior. 43 cm diameter
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Pre-European Polynesian adze, Flaked with rudimentary tang. Smooth bevel and sharp cutting edge. 13 cm length
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Papua New Guinea Asmat adze, teardrop shape with a rounded blade. Polished surface throughout. 18 cm length
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Solomon Island stone adze, anthropomorphic form. 17 cm length
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Three shell adzes from the Solomon Islands
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A cook Island adze and a Tongan adze, cook Island; carved in basalt, tanged with a medial ridge and high bevel, flake to the cutting edge. Tongan; Quadrangular and polished with flaking to the underside. Some fritting to the blade. 12 cm, 10 cm length
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Two large Papua New Guinean adze blades, one flat teardrop shape carved in black chloromelanite, flaked uneven poll with large flake to left side of the face. Second; elongated form with rounded ends carved in volcanic rock, smooth surface. 22 cm, 29 cm length
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Papua New Guinean hafted adze and cassowary bird head dress, adze; wooden handle with lashing. Head dress; feathers and woven fibre with attached binding. Adze, 47 cm length; headdress, 45 cm length
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Three Polynesian adzes, course volcanic stone.
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Two Papua New Guinean adze blades, teardrop shape with smooth surface. Carved from highly prized chloromelanite which was found in the Cycloop mountains. This extremely hard, veined, jade-like stone varies in colour according to the surrounding minerals from pale to extremely dark green, almost black. The blades were very roughly shaped by 'Pecking', striking with a hammer stone, to reduce them to a very basic shape which was then ground away using a sandstone. It was further polished with sand and water,…
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Two shell fish hooks from Mortlock Islands Melanesia, attached binding.
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Three Easter Island stone picks and a roughout
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Four ventifacts (naturally occurring sand polished stone), assorted colours.
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Calabash with woven Sennit casing from Rennell Islands, Solomon Islands. 23 cm height
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A Solomon Island dancing shield, with inlaid mother of pearl. Dark matt patina. Lugged handle to the reverse. 86 cm height
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A 19th century Fijian Chief's headrest (Kali), the gently curved wooden top bar inlaid with marine ivory to each side. Raised on a circular support issuing from a flat base. Made from a single piece of sacred vesi wood. 45 cm width
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A Tami Island hardwood bowl, elongated elliptical shape carved with a frigate bird in low relief to each side. The base carved with a stylized fish with mask face highlighted with lime. Two small breaks, one repaired, 41 cm length
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Aboriginal tjuruga (divination tool), carved wood decorated with spirals and cross-hatched lines. 26 cm length
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19th century Vanuatu war club, with tapering cylindrical shaft with cone shaped head and three projecting bulbous knobs and rope binding. Some damage evident with one knob missing, 79 cm length
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Australian carved emu egg (Kalti Paarti), displaying native animals and Aboriginal with boomerang and shield. Pictures are created by scratching, scraping and carving away the outer layers of shell revealing different shades of blue, blue-green, brown or grey. This practice of carving emu eggs began in the mid to late nineteenth century and is most often strongly associated with Aboriginal Art. 16 cm length
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Australian carved emu egg (Kalti Paarti), depicting a domestic aboriginal scene with male, female and child by the fire. 16 cm length
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An Aboriginal spear, dark patina with wooden barb terminating in a sharp point. 220 cm height
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A fine Fijian tabua (ceremonial marine ivory tooth), etched decoration and incised 'Koro' 'Nmai'. Pierced for suspension. 8 cm length
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Fijian tabua (ceremonial marine ivory tooth), with attached woven binding. Old newspaper affixed. 14 cm length
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Fijian tabua (ceremonial marine ivory tooth), incised cross. Pierced for suspension. 14 cm length
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A good Fijian tabua (ceremonial marine ivory tooth), with attahed woven fibre. 17 cm length
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A Fijian tabua (ceremonial marine ivory tooth), pierced for suspension, attached later binding. 12 cm length
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A Fijian tabua (ceremonial marine ivory tooth), Attahed woven binding. 17 cm length
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A Fijian Ula (throwing club), fully carved lobed natural root ball head and notched grip. 43 cm length
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A Fijian Ula (throwing club), with smooth spherical head and shaft with notched grip. 42 cm length
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A Fijian Ula (throwing club), with smooth spherical head and shaft with notched grip. 40 cm length
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A Fijian Ula (throwing club), with spherical natural root ball head and shaft with notched grip. 41 cm length
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A small Fijian Ula (throwing club), with spherical natural root ball head and smooth grip. 34 cm length
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A Fijian Ula (throwing club), with carved spherical fluted head and smooth grip with suspension hole. 30 cm length
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Fijian Ula (throwing club) with marine ivory embellishments, spherical root ball head with inlaid marine ivory crescents, circles, and ten-point star. 40 cm length
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A Fijian Ula (throwing club), with spherical natural root ball head and shaft with notched grip. 42 cm length
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A Good19th century Fijian kava bowl, rising from eight cylindrical legs, pierced lug for suspension, rich brown patina. 40 cm diameter
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A large and impressive Fijian spear, with multiple graduated barbs and with sennit binding to the shaft, 320 cm length
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A Cook Islands calcite pounder, rounded cross section bulbous body tapering to a flared turret top, 15 cm height
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Sago pudding knife from Vanuatu, ebonised wood. 37 cm length
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Sago pudding knife from Vanuatu, dark patina. 36 cm length
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Vanuatu carved fern tree grade initiation figure, 90 cm height
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Vanuatu fern carved figure, 76 cm height
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Vanuatu ceremonial headdress, clay modelled over a wooden base with natural pigment paint, embellished with boars tusks. 70 cm height
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Four coconut vessels from Tonga, one lidded with attached binding. Small split.
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Three Maori whale bone spear tips, one carved with a wheku head.
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East Timor four coconut spoons
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Solomon Islands parrying club, Medial ridge to the blade, tapering shaft. San Christobel. Reference: 'The sheilds of Melanesia' (pp. 253). 120 cm length
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A rare Solomon Islands war shield with frigate bird motif, wicker made from rattan, with rounded top and bottom. 86 cm height
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Solomon Islands frigate bird pipe, carved wooden bowl on a bamboo stem. 57 cm length
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Papua New Guinean Mailu war shield from Collingwood bay, some losses. 79 cm height
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A superb Papua New Guinea Ramu River war shield, stone carved of tapering rectangular form. The front decorated with an abstract triangular face between pairs of stylized eyes. The lower section with interwoven split cane. It is rare to find an example like this with ordinal painted pigment and the split cane adornment still attached. Provenance: Webb's African and Oceanic Art auction 17th June 2010 lot 216, 110 x 50 cm
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Papua New Guinean Kandrian war shield, a three plank shield bound with rattan with a recessed vertical grip. Carved with concentric circles and coloured with red and black pigments. West New Britain Provence. A similar example is illustrated in Meyer 'Oceanic Art' (pp. 375). 120 cm height
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An impressive Papua New Guinean Kwoma war shield, stretched black boar skin over an oval frame of thick rattan. The carrying device consists of crossed thick rattan bracers to the upper section. Used by younger initiated men. East Sepik. 137 cm height
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Papua New Guinea Sepik River Slit drum, with a projecting crocodile head to one end. The drum body with incised curvilinear designs in orange and white painted pigment. 110 cm width
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Papua New Guinean bridal veil (Ambusap), woven fibre and cowrie shells. 77 cm length
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A rare early 19th century cook Island figure, standing with hands placed to abdomen. 28 cm height
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A rare early 19th century cook Islands dance Wand, inlaid with abalone shell. 70 cm length, $10,000-$20,000
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A Papua New Guinea Asmat Warrior's necklace, woven fibre with dogs teeth
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William mariner - an account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean. With an original Grammar and vocabulary of their language. London: printed for the author, and Sold by John Murray, Albemarle-street. 1817. Vol I, II. Some foxing.
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Abraham Fornander - an account of the Polynesian race Its migrations and the ancient history of the Hawaiian people to the Times of Kamehameha I. London: Trubner & Co, Ludgate hill. 1878. Vol. I, II.
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William Ellis - Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six Years in the South Sea Islands. London: Fisher, Son, & Jackson, Newgate Street. Stamped 'New Plymouth public Library' instituted 1884. Vol. I, II. Foxing.
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Papua New Guinea Timbuwarra figure, the Timbuwarra, is a type of ritual figure produced by the Wiru people of the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. Timbuwarra figures are generally made of rattan and May serve several functions, although they are generally held to be associated with fertility rites and with the spirit world, 54 cm length
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Two Papua New Guinea Timbuwarra figures
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A good 19th century New Caledonian Kanak war club, with bird head striking blade with hooded medial ridge and tapering shaft, the distinctively shaped porowa RA maru, or 'bird head,' clubs of New Caledonia were prestigious objects created for use by chiefs. The clubs symbolized wealth and high rank, and on some occasions served as gifts during ceremonial exchanges. The heads of the clubs are carved in the form of stylized bird heads typically distinguished, as here, by long, pointed beaks. However, as none…
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A 19th century New Caledonian Kanak war club, with bird head striking blade with hooded medial ridge and tapering shaft with ridged handle, 70 cm length
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Large and impressive tokelau tackle box (taluma), the large lidded box of ovoid shape with pierced lugs to the shoulder, 37 x 46 cm
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A Tokelau tackle box, 12 cm height
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A large and impressive 19th century Trobriand Islands blackened pottery feast bowl, ovoid conical form with incised decoration. Supported on a circular stand made from plant fibre. Collected in the Amphlett Islands. Provenance: Nigel Hillind collection, 46 cm diameter
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Collection of ten Papua New Guinea adze blades. Provenance Nigel Hillind collection
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Papua New Guinean hafted adze, 48 cm length
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Papua New Guinea six shell adornments, four necklaces and two bracelets. Shell, animal teeth, and woven plant fibre. Provenance: Nigel Hillind collection
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Papua New Guinea Oro Province tapa cloth, with unusual pigment. These barkcloth are made from cultivated mulberry tree bark beaten together by the Maisen people of Collingwood bay of Oro Province. Provenance: Nigel Hillind collection, 156 cm x 133 cm
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Papua New Guinea blackened Pottery bowl, decorated with sea horse heads in high relief. Provenance Nigel Hillind collection, 26 cm diameter
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Papua New Guinea feast bowl, with carved side handles. Provenance: Nigel Hillind collection, 43 cm length
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Papua New Guinean sword club, rich dark patina, saw teeth carved to the handle, large carved band inlaid with limestone to the shaft. Trobriand Islands. 66 cm length
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Kukukuku tribe war bow, palmwood, cane bowstring. Provenance: Owen map collection, 173 cm length
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A Bougainville Island spear with bone Barbs, carved decoration to the top section. Provenance: Owen Mapp collection, 281 cm length
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Two Papua New Guinean adze blades, smooth teardrop-shaped chloromelantite.
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Papua New Guinea spear thrower, carved chicken and crocodile motifs surmounting a bamboo shaft. 143 cm length
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Papua New Guinean short war club, with discoidal flower-like carved stone head, tapering wooden handle, and woven cane. 68 cm length
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Papua New Guinean large feast bowl together with assorted jewellery, including; a shell necklace, two boar tusk bracelets, a boar tusk necklace with cowrie shells, a Solomon Island money necklace, a cassowary bird bone hair ornament. Bowl; 42 cm diameter
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Papua New Guinean feeding bowl and three stone tools, two adzes blades and an obsidian dagger with carved handle. Bowl; 60 cm width
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Papua New Guinea Oro province tapa cloth (2), each with traditional clan motif decoration
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Papua New Guinean Sepik hook figure, suspension hook in the form of a male figure, with pigment painted face. 81 cm height
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Papua New Guinea Sepik River figure, the standing figure with over modeled clay face with orange painted pigment decoration, adorned with shell and and plaited raffia. Provenance: Dame Jenny Gibbs collection, 48 cm height
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A good Papua New Guinea Ramu River Garamut Slit drum, rectangular form with projecting figures to each end with long hooked noses and tiered headdresses. The body of the drum with fine intricate curvilinear designs. Complete with drum stick, carved from a felled tree the slit drum, or garamut, is one of the most important instruments in the Sepik River region. These drums are typically kept in the men's ritual house for ceremonies such as male initiations.. The finials of the garamut are ornamented with…
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Papua New Guinea blackened pottery bowl, decorated with sea horse heads in high relief. Provenance Nigel Hillind collection, 24 cm diameter
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A cassowary feather Bilum bag from Papua New Guinea, made of bark fibre and cassowary feathers by people of New Guinea in 20th century. A similar example is exhibited in Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, Ca. 60 cm length
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An 18th Cook Islands pounder (Ke'o), basalt stone of typical conical tapering form with three ridges to the top. Provenance: Private Collection Hawkes Bay, 13 cm height
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Two Polynesian toki, volcanic stone with tang and high bevel. Flat quadrangular carved in shell.
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Vanuatu lobed club, 98 cm length
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Vanuatu war club, with tapering cylindrical shaft with cone shaped head with six projecting bulbous knobs, 84 cm length
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A Vanuatu interior Malekula Island grade Society mask, with abstract human face with broad mouth and boar's tusks issuing from the cheeks. Painted in red, black, blue and white mineral pigment, with attached smoked spider web. Sold together with a cassowary bird dagger
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