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Kenneth Athol Webster Collection Part III — Dunbar Sloane Ltd.

Auction House:Dunbar Sloane Ltd.Number of lots recorded:253
Sale Title:Kenneth Athol Webster Collection Part IIILots with images:115
Auction Location:AucklandPrices available:223
Date:22-Mar-2011
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19th century large Fijian spear with traces of sennet bindings. Length 218 cm.
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18th century rare and important large Vanutau chief's foot stamp war club. Ten-point star head with kill notches at base and head. Missionary collected. Length 125 cm.
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19th century Pacific Island saw bill club. Length 74 cm.
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19th century Samoan wooden axe/club. Length 59 cm.
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19th century Tongan Fly Whisk. Length 64 cm.
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Santa Cruz breast pendant shell with geometric tortoise shell decoration. Diameter 15 cm. Length 52 cm.
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'Captain Tilly' Melanesia breast pendant (Santa Cruz group). Shell with geometric tortoise shell decoration.
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Cook Island or Maori stone crop god, ex Auckland, Theosophical Society. Height 19 cm
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South Pacific Island club. Length 31 cm.
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Early 19th century wooden Fijian Priest's oil dish. Length 36 cm.
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Early 19th century Cook Island wooden (Atiu) Chief's stool, with original fine plated sennet cord on two legs (used for hanging). Width 44 cm. Height 15 cm. Diameter 20 cm.
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Early 19th century Tongan wooden Pillow. Diameter 11 cm. Width 45 cm. Height 16 cm.
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19th century African Akan wooden Chief's stool. reference: 'Art & artefacts, the James Hooper Collection' by Steven Phelpes, pg 380. Height 27 cm. Width 41 cm. Diameter 22 cm.
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19th century Fijian ceremonial kava bowl in the shape of a sea turtle. Height 14 cm. Width 55 cm.
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19th century Polynesian coconut Grating stool. Length 59 cm. Width 22 cm. Height 25 cm.
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19th century Samoan kava bowl with 12 legs and suspension lug. Diameter 39 cm. Height 15 cm.
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19th century African wooden four legged stool. Height 30 cm. Diameter 37 cm.
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African wooden head rest with two figures. Height 20 cm. Width 21 cm.
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Solomon Islands dog head with painted black nose and pink gums. Length 19 cm.
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Hawaiian wooden poi vessel with three carved gods at base. Height 26.5 cm.
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Large Australian boomerang with carved emus and kangaroos etc. Length 80 cm
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Two 19th century golden kauri shells (used as Polynesian currency). Length 10 cm.
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Old and rare 19th century Fijian Tapa cloth. Length 401 cm. Width 80 cm.
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Two Tapa Cloths, Fiji & Cook Island. Fiji cloth length 190 x width 131 cm. Cook Island cloth length 270 x width 61 cm.
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Papua New Guinea Anstead mask. Made from a whole tortoise shell body. Ex Hudig collection Wellington (Hudig visited Papua New Guinea for Phillips Electrical in the 1960s). Length 30 cm
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Papua New Guinea Pig Killing Apron. Length 80 cm.
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Papua New Guinea Apron with pig tusks and beads. Length 60 cm.
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Papua New Guinea woven Geko or lizard figure. Length 60 cm
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Papua New Guinea headdress hat. Made with hair; original beading has gone. Width 54 cm.
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Papua New Guinea headdress hat. Made with hair; original yellow beads. Width 40 cm
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Rare & old Papua New Guinea Chief's hat. Made of vegetable fibre and decorated with painted clay/mud. Height 34 cm. Diameter 34 cm.
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Society Islands shell breast pendant. Length 38 cm. Width 18 cm.
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Important 19th century Fijian Gunstock club. Carved with ripple effect on one side up the top. Length 104 cm.
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45 Journals of ‘The Journal of the Polynesian Society'. Selected Journals from March 1922 - March 1937.
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South Pacific flax woven bag. Length 60 cm.
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Suku Fetish from Zaire, Africa. Wooden figure with feather movable arms and flax skirt. Height 63 cm.
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Fon Fetish figure from Benin, Africa. Wooden figure painted with mud/clay carrying ceramic pots. Height 37 cm.
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Makande Tribe mask from Tanzania, Africa. Has ethnic repair work. Length 21 cm (of wooden mask), width 13 cm.
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Makonde - Makua tribal group mask from Tanzania/ Mozambique. Wooden mask with feather bloom in hair. Height 34 cm. Width 20 cm.
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Chokule mask from Angola with vegetable fibre braided hair and geometric carved detailing. Height 18 cm. Width 14 cm.
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Teke figure from Zaire. split to side of head with ethnic repair. Height 37 cm.
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Baule Tribe Mouse Oracle (Gbekre), Divination bowl from ivory Coast. U sed for fortune telling, the physical apparatus of the gbekre is contained within a terracotta vessel inside a hollow wooden cylinder. A shelf divides the vessel into two distinct chambers, which are connected by a hole, the mice are placed in the lower chamber and pass through the hole into the upper chamber, in which the diviner has placed ten small sticks (originally, bird or bat bones were used), the small sticks, called gbekre nyma…
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Baule Tribe bird mask from ivory Coast. Height 28 cm.
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Baule Tribe mask from ivory Coast. split to face with repair. Height 31 cm.
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Lega mask from Zaire with flax beard. Length 38 cm (including beard).
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Guerre mask from Liberia. Velvet patterned fabric on forehead, animal skin and hair in beard with vegetable fibre hair. Length 24 cm.
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Kifwebe mask, Songye Tribe from Congo. Hollowed protruding mouth, alternating black and red ridged angular face. Height 35 cm. Width 19 cm.
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Gio mask from Liberia. Length 60 cm. Width 18 cm.
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Baule figure from ivory Coast. Red beaded eyes, wood has splits. Height 30 cm. Width 9 cm.
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A Royal Bamum tribal mask from Cameroon Grasslands. Height 39 cm. Width 22 cm (not including stand).
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Papua New Guinea Pay back figures. Female and male figures that are anatomically correct with genitalia. Figures are a stylised image of a person who had been killed. Height 39 cm (both figures)
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Malagan frieze from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. U sed for story telling. Brightly decorated with birds and a central male head with sea snail opercula eyes. Originally from the collection of Harold Gallasch (Australian Minerals, Adelaide, S.A.). Collected 1960s-1970s. Height 22 cm. Width 130 cm
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Papua New Guinea ancestor figure. Length 234 cm.
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