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Maori, Oceanic and African Art — Dunbar Sloane Ltd.

Auction House:Dunbar Sloane Ltd.Number of lots recorded:377
Sale Title:Maori, Oceanic and African ArtLots with images:377
Auction Location:WellingtonPrices available:300
Date:4-Apr-2023
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A Papua New Guinea cooking pot, raku fired clay pot with dog mask side handles. Sepik River. Clear signs of use, 23 cm diameter
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Two Papua New Guinea cooking pots, raku fired with snake motifs, 18 cm, 18 cm diameter
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A raku fired elliptical food bowl from Papua New Guinea, with incised decoration and avian handles. Some losses, 26 cm at widest point
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A Papua New Guinea ceremonial spirit head vessel, raku fired ovoid vessel tapering to base. East Sepik District, 21 cm length
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Two Ramu River masks from Papua New Guinea, carved wood with concave facial planes, painted with black, red and kaolin pigments, 60 cm, 54 cm height.
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Six Papua New Guinea coconut shell spoons, decorated with ancestral spirit faces. Hauon peninsula, Morobe province.
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Six Papua New Guinea coconut shell spoons, decorated with ancestral spirit faces. Hauon peninsula, Morobe Province.
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Six Papua New Guinea coconut shell spoons, decorated with ancestral spirit faces. Hauon peninsula, Morobe Province.
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Three Papua New Guinea Ramu River masks, carved wood ancestral spirit heads from the Madang district. Collected in 1972, 80 cm, 77 cm, 67 cm height.
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Three Papua New Guinea spirit head masks, wood with incised decoration and facial features carved in high relief. Two surmounted with avian head ancestral figures, 70 cm, 60 cm, 50 cm height
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A Papua New Guinea Romkun figure, carved wood standing figure, Madang Province, 80 cm height
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A Papua New Guinea Ramu River house board and mask, carved wood figures from the Madang Province. Some losses. Collected in 1972, 80 cm, 75 cm height
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Two Papua New Guinea Ramu River Kandu drums, wood with incised decoration and handle carved in high relief. Madang Province. Collected in 1972. Skins removed by customs NZ, 54 cm, 40 cm height
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Two Papua New Guinea cooking pots and a food bowl, two raku fired coiled clay pots with figural handles from the Atzera area, Morobe district, with a raku fired elliptical food bowl from the Aibom village, Chambri lakes, 25 cm, 22 cm, 30 cm at widest point.
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12 assorted Papua New Guinea carved wood food implements, includes: 6 lime sticks, 3 spoons, 3 pounders.
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A good Papua New Guinea Sago storage jar from the Aibom Vllage, raku fired coiled clay vessel with flared rim, decorated with zoomorphic relief depictions of mythological spirits painted with black and kaolin pigments. Woven ratan base, 33 cm height
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Four Papua New Guinea Ramu River elliptical feast bowls, Madang Province.
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Three Papua New Guinea Ramu River elliptical feast bowls, 65 cm, 43 cm, 30 cm
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Seven small Papua New Guinea Ramu River standing figures, carved wood mythological spirit figures. Madang Province.
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Seven small Papua New Guinea Ramu River standing figures, carved wood mythological spirit figures. Madang Province.
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Five Papua New Guinea coconut shell spoons, with incised spirit head and pierced decoration.
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Five Papua New Guinea adze blades, 25 cm - 8 cm length
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Five Papua New Guinea Billum bags, coloured fiber, various Sizes.
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Two Papua New Guinea Azera cooking pots, raku fired coiled clay pots from the Morobe Region, 22 cm, 19 cm diameter
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Two Papua New Guinea Azera cooking pots, raku fired coiled clay pots with zoomorphic side handles modelled in high relief, from the Morobe region, 22 cm, 22 cm diameter
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A large Papua New Guinea Ramu River house board, carved wood depicting an anthropomorphic figure in relief, painted with black, red and kaolin pigments. Collected in 1972. Some losses.
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A Papua New Guinea mask and figure, a carved wood Ramu River flute mask with painted black, red and Kaolin pigments, and a Romkun figure, 39 cm, 40 cm height
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A Papua New Guinea Romkun post, carved wood with opposing hooks and janus spirit face, Ramu River. Damage to one hook, 173 cm height
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A Papua New Guinea Ramu River house board, flat wood board with incised anthropomorphic figure, with painted kaolin and ochre pigments. Multiple piercings for suspension, 99 cm height
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A Papua New Guinea Ramu River shield, carved blackened wood spirit face with overlaid clay, dog tooth, and boar tusk embellishments. Bamboo handle to reverse. Some surface losses, 160 cm height
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Two Papua New Guinea shields, wood with carved geometric patterns. Pierced for suspension, 101 cm, 97 cm height
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Two Ramu River paddles from Papua New Guinea, Romkun figural finial to the top of paddle shaft. Worn with some losses, 164 cm, 166 cm length
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A Papua New Guinea Ramu River spirit head post, carved wood post with Romkun opposing hook spirit face, 148 cm height
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Six Ramu River spears from Papua New Guinea, carved wood spears from the Madang Province, over 200 cm height
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A Papua New Guinea Sepik River house board, carved wood displaying three surmounting anthropomorphic faces. Carved to commemorate the death of triplets. Suspension holes, 157 cm height
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A Papua New Guinea Ramu River house board, carved wood ancestral spirit face carved in high relief, with applied red, ochre, and kaolin pigments. Broken suspension hole, 126 cm height
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A Papua New Guinea Kombio (feast bowl), blackened raku fired clay with mask face side handles in high relief. Aibom village, Chambri lakes. Collected in 1971, 26 cm at widest point
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A Papua New Guinea Papi (food bowl), raku fired clay with incised pattern. Ilahop village, Maprik, 15 cm diameter
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Two Papua New Guinea Hodu (water bowl), raku fired clay spherical shape vessels. Boera village, central Province. The larger of the two with a ceramic base and chip to rim, 37 cm, 16 cm height
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A Papua New Guinea meat cooking pots, raku fired clay pot with stylised fish handles in high relief, comes with ceramic base. Zumin village, Markham valley, Morobe Province, 24 cm at widest point
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Male and female figures, Papua New Guinea, raku fired clay. Dimiri village, East Sepik District, 20 cm height
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A Papua New Guinea Uro (cooking pot), raku fired clay with incised decoration. Dimiri village, East Sepik. Collected in 1971, 21 cm diameter
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A ceremonial food bowl, raku fired clay decorated with four figures in relief. Aibom village, Chambri lakes. Collected in 1971, 26 cm x 26 cm
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Small frog figure from Papua New Guinea, raku fired clay with incised decoration. Dimiri village, 8 cm length
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An Ocarina pig whistle, Papua New Guinea, raku fired clay with dark and light pigments. Sina Sina people of Kundiawa. Chip to the mouthpiece, 13 cm length
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A mythological figure from, Papua New Guinea, raku fired sitting figure surmounted by a cassowary bird. Black and Kaolin pigments. Aibom village, Chambri lakes. Damaged and repaired, 35 cm height
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A Papua New Guinea whistle with stand, raku fired clay with incised ancestral face decoration painted with black, white and red pigments, 10 cm height
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A large Uro (cooking pot) from Papua New Guinea, raku fired spherical clay pot with incised decoration. The Boera village, 31 cm height
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Jorgen Peterson modern pot with base (1970) Maprik Province, 20 cm height
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A Papua New Guinea meat cooking pot, raku fired clay with incised decoration, pierced throughout the ovoid body with ratan handle. Dimiri village, East Sepik, 40 cm height (including handle)
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Two raku fired Papua New Guinea cooking pots, large cooking pot with incised decoration from Tenmile village, Madang Province, and a small cooking pot from the Amphlett Islands, large 30 cm diameter, small 22 cm at widest point.
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A chalice from Papua New Guinea, raku fired clay with janus faces in high relief, painted with black and kaolin pigments. Aibom village, Chambri lakes. Some surface losses, 12 cm height
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A Papua New Guinea roof gable figure, raku fired clay avian/anthropomorphic sitting figure surmounted on an ovoid base. Aibom village, Chambri lakes, East Sepik, 40.5 cm height
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A Papua New Guinea Sago jar lid, raku fired clay. Aibom village, Chambri lakes. Signs of wear, 28 cm diameter
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Two Papua New Guinea Obsidian blade daggers, in these examples, the obsidian blade is hafted into a molded putty nut Parinarium gum hand grip. From the beginning of the 20th century, the quality of manufacture of Melanesian obsidian-bladed spears and daggers decreased as they were replaced by imported European steel edged blades. The fine workmanship of these daggers is indicative of early pre European trade contact production c1900, 30 cm, 25 cm length
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Two papa New Guinea raku fired cooking pots, Provenance: Nigel Hillind collection, 24 cm diameter
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A Papua New Guinea tapa from the Oro Region, Provenance: Nigel Hillind collection, 125 cm x 76 cm
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Seven Papua New Guinea Ramu River figures, Provenance: Nigel Hillind Collection
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Papua New Guinea Sepik River feast bowl with cruciform decoration, Provenance: Nigel Hillind Colllection
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Papua New Guinea large Sepik River elliptical feast bowl, decorated with frigate bird motifs, Provenance: Nigel Hillind collection, 77 cm length
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Three Papua New Guinea peka cooking pots from the Madang Province, elongated ovoid shape with conical bases. The base of the peka pot was buried into the ground and the fire was built around it, 36 cm, 31 cm, 31 cm height
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A Papua New Guinea lower Sepik River lime container, carved painted wood, bamboo, woven fiber, and cowrie shell. Top and bottom stoppers, 69 cm height
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Four cassowary bird daggers, various sizes, one with inset red beads, 32 cm - 18 cm length
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Papua New Guinea cut shell Currency, bound together with platted fiber on a wooden spike, 34 cm length
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A Papua New Guinea cooking pot with incised Pigmented decoration, 28 cm diameter
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A Papua New Guinea Kandu drum, wood with Pigmented decoration, 98 cm height
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A Papua New Guinea ceremonial paddle and a carved suspension hook, the paddle displays a leaf shaped blade held in the mouth of a python with a serpentine handle terminating with the carved head of a clan father in high relief. The hook displays the head of a white ibis at one end, at the other end is the head of a python effigy devouring a clan father, paddle 187 cm, hook 60 cm height
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A large elliptical blackened wood feast bowl, with frigate birds carved in relief, 100 cm
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A Papua New Guinea shield, wood, decorated with a carved geometric pattern. Hole pierced for suspension, 106 cm height
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Two Papua New Guinea shields, wood with carved geometric patterns. Pierced for suspension, 105 cm, 65 cm height
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Two Papua New Guinea carved wood Statues, horned female standing figures with incised decoration. Some damage (split wood), 116 cm, 115 cm height.
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Ramu River paddle from Papua New Guinea, displaying stylized ancestor figures painted with dark pigment to both side of the blade and figural finial to the top of paddle, 164 cm length
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A Papua New Guinea warriors dog tooth necklace, 115 cm length
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A Papua New Guinea Sepik River bowl with stand, coiled raku fired clay bowl with incised spirit faces painted with red, ochre, and kaolin pigment. Provenance; one Christian Fund collection; ex Sotherby's, 26 cm diameter
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A Papua New Guinea Sepik River bowl with stand, coiled raku fired clay bowl with incised pattern and applied ochre pigment. Chip to the surface. Provenance; one Christian Fund collection; ex Sotherby's, 25 cm diameter
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A Papua New Guinea suspension hook figure, carved blackened wood, red pigment, cowrie shell, raffia, and cassowary feather adornment, 115 cm height
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A Buka Island paddle from Papua New Guinea, displaying stylized ancestor figures painted with dark pigment to one side of the blade, carving to lower end of the handle, 177 cm length
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Papua New Guinea mask, decorated with cassowary feathers, boar tusks and cowrie shells, Provenance: Dame Jenny Gibbs collection, 55 cm height
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Papua New Guinea middle Sepik River Latmul Mei mask, 20th century Mei mask. Wood, pigments, cowry shells, boar tusk, hair and clay, Provenance: Dame Jenny Gibbs collection, 76 cm height
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A Papua New Guinea woven Sepik River mask, decorated with cowrie shells, boar tuck, and cassowary feather, 45 cm height
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A Papua New Guinea Aibom village Sago storage jar, raku fired coiled clay vessel with flared rim and decorated with anthropomorphic face in relief, painted with black, red and kaolin pigments. With raffia stand, 35 cm height
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A Papua New Guinea middle Sepik River mask, painted carved wood. Original label affixed to reverse: 'David Jones, gable mask, Palembai, Provenance: Dame Jenny Gibbs collection, 67 cm height
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A large and impressive spirit mask from Papua New Guinea, painted wood decorated with bird totems carved in high relief and cut shells eyes, 122 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 drumstick. 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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Four Papua New Guinea cooking pots, raku fired coiled clay pots.
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Two Papua New Guinea shields, wood with carved geometric patterns. Pierced for suspension, 107 cm, 70 cm height
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A Tongan ceremonial priest's staff, with cylindrical handle and tapering rectangular head carved with a manulua design, 74 cm length
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A Trobriand Islands elliptical feast bowl, Provenance: Nigel Hillind Collection
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Trobriand Island elliptical wooden feast bowl, Provenance: Nigel Hillind Collection
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A sperm whale tooth, 12 cm length
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Two Tokelau tackle boxes (Taluma), the lidded boxes of ovoid shape with pierced lugs to the shoulder, attached sennit binding, 22 cm, 10 cm height
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An Aboriginal spear thrower, 59 cm length
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An Aboriginal spear thrower, 77 cm length
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An Aboriginal Woomara (spear thrower), a woomera is a wooden Australian Aboriginal spear-throwing device. It serves as an extension of the human arm enabling a spear to travel at a greater speed and force.
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Three Aboriginal boomerangs, carved wood, 63 cm, 50 cm, 30 cm length
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Two ceremonial spears from Irian Jaya, carved wood spears with incised decoration and applied kaolin pigment. Cockatoo feather and shell embellishments. Cokatoo Guenum Village.
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A ceremonial paddle and spade from Irian Jaya, carved wood paddle with incised decoration to the blade, and wood spade with surmounting human figure handle, over 200 cm height
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A 19th century Fijian ceremonial dance club (kiakavo), kiakavo were typically a dance club used in ceremonial circumstances, They were rarely used for fighting due to their lack of a cutting edge, the area under the head is rounder and not sharp like the Gata or Sali club, 96 cm height
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A sperm whale tooth, 14 cm length
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A Fijian lobbed vunikau (long rootstock war club), the seven lobbed war club having a dark rich patina, with notched carving to the grip, 107 cm length
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