*** | Solomon Islands pig jaw pendant, with bound flax fibre suspension cord Length 19 cm | *** | |
*** | Theo Schoon, carved pounamu inanga-variety heitiki. Length 6 cm | *** | |
*** | Mike Higgs, pounamu hei-tiki, with cut paua shell eyes. Length 8 cm | *** | |
*** | Vanuatu 19th century war club, with tapering cylindrical shaft with cone shaped head and four projecting bulbous knobs. Length 80 cm | *** | |
*** | A greywacke toki (adze), of rounded quadrangular form, all over pecked finish incompletely polished out, gently curved bevel, Y14105, L. 26.6 cm. Provenance: Private Collection. Note: Under the Protected Objects Act 1975, only Registered Collectors of… | *** | |
*** | African Luba ceremonial cane, carved with a male and female figure in relief surmounted by a pair of carved horns | *** | |
*** | Digging stick, a very long dark brown pole of cylindrical form, hand carved with varying width throughout, tapering at one end to a blunt point and the other end narrowing to the digging end. Melanesian origin. Length 353 cm, circumference at thickest… | *** | |
*** | Toki, adze, small 19th century worked pounamu adze, medium green, with white feathering, small chip to blade, length 5.3 cm. Provenance: Estate of John Lawford. | *** | |
*** | Collection of toki / adze etc [5 Items], patu - curved handle section of stone patu possible okewa club. Snapped transversely across mid-section of the blade. Four roughout stone toki - 2 blade ends and 2 poll sections and size varies. Provenance: Estate… | *** | |
*** | Toki, adze, 18th century basalt stone adze with mottled grey colour, one chip on the blade edge, marked 'Ruakaka 2B', length 17 cm. Provenance - Florence court sale [2009]. Estate of John Lawford | *** | |
*** | Papua New Guinea Sepik river nose ornament, pigs tusk and nacre shell with later piercing and attached cord with cut Solomon Islands currency discs. Sourced in the Solomon Islands | *** | |
*** | A Maori whale bone pendant, 19th century, carved with an incipient wheku head. Pierced for suspension. | *** | |
*** | African Janus head figure, with Nagaland snake necklace | *** | |
*** | Carved Maori tokotoko, the handle with a tiki figure with inlaid paua shell eyes. Length 9 cm | *** | |
*** | Papua New Guinea Sepik river crucifix. Height 83 cm | *** | |
*** | Papua New Guinea Sepik river crucifix. Height 83 cm | *** | |
*** | 19th century Vanuatu Ambrym Island ceremonial food platter with attached fibre and nut dance rattle, W. 76 cm | *** | |
*** | Tekoteko figure holding a patu, standing on a base carved with wheku and manaia with paua shell eyes, 40 x 28 cm | *** | |
*** | Toki pounamu, (nephrite adze blade), kawakawa variety. Length 14 cm | *** | |
*** | New Britain 19th century stone head club, with tapering cylindrical shaft. Length 122 cm | *** | |
*** | Vanuatu 19th century war club, with tapering cylindrical shaft with cone shaped head and four projecting bulbous knobs. Length 80 cm | *** | |
*** | Santa Cruz Island shell pendant 'Tema', gold lipped mother of pearl shell, turtle shell and fibre, the crescent shaped shell overlaid in turtle shell carved in the form of stylised birds with attached cords with cut shell currency discs. Width 14 cm | *** | |
*** | Kuru pounamu, kawakawa variety. Length 8 cm | *** | |
*** | Heru, ornamental comb made from whalebone with eight teeth L.7.5 cm | *** | |
*** | M?h?, large stone sinker, with recessed lashing grooves around the circumference, approx 25 x 23 cm. Provenance: Estate of John Lawford. | *** | |
*** | Toki, adze, 19th century stone adze with straight blade with one very small corner chip, steep short bevel, rounded chin, straight vertical sides tapered to rounded poll, length 15.6 cm. Provenance: Estate of John Lawford. | *** | |
*** | Fijian ula throwing club, I ula drisia type with ball head. The grip section with tavatava zig zag notching, broken at the end. Length 38 cm. Provenance: Collection of Keith St. Cartmail | *** | |
*** | Kuru pounamu, large kawakawa variety pendant with pierced suspension hole. Length 11.5 cm | *** | |
*** | Toki Pounamu. kawakawa variety. Length 8 cm, together with a piece of polished pounamu | *** | |
*** | Pounamu scraper Y14687. Length 9 cm | *** | |
*** | African Luba ceremonial cane, surmounted by a female figure carved in high relief. Height 170 cm | *** | |
*** | Rare small titoki liquor bottle modelled as a Maori pou pou figure. Height 16 cm | *** | |
*** | A large Greywacke stone toki. Length 28 cm | *** | |
*** | An unusual bowenite pendant, carved in the form of a mako shark. Length 7 cm | *** | |
*** | Two Maori folk art boxes, each with carved wheku heads to the top | *** | |
*** | Carved wood patu | *** | |
*** | Theo Schoon, carved pounamu kawakawa-variety heitiki. Length 7 cm | *** | |
*** | Patu aruhe, wooden fern root pounder, handgrip formed in the first 14.5 cm with rounded butt, flat base, length 31 cm. Provenance: Estate of John Lawford. | *** | |
*** | Two Maori folk art boxes, each with carved wheku heads to the top | *** | |
*** | A Maori ridge back toki (duff type 4A0), W. 23 cm | *** | |
*** | Three fishing nets (pouraka) and one flax and supplejack fish trap (torehe), made by Renata Tihore (ngati Porou), Hicks Bay for the 'Feathers and Fibre' exhibition Rotorua Art gallery, 1982 | *** | |
*** | Cut tortoise shell nose adornment figure, Santa Cruz, W.9.2 cm | *** | |
*** | A decorative African standing figure, with beaded decoration, on wooden plinth, height 38 cm | *** | |
*** | Fijian Gunstock club. Length 92 cm. Provenance: Collection of Keith St. Cartmail | *** | |
*** | Argillite toki (adze), of tapering quadrangular shape, with polished curved bevel with pronounced ridge, hammer-dressed butt, Y14682, L. 15 cm. Provenance: Private Collection. Note: Under the Protected Objects Act 1975, only Registered Collectors of… | *** | |
*** | Solomon Islands clam shell nose adornment, housed in original wooden cylindrical container with rolled flax leaf stopper L.23 cm | *** | |
*** | Toki, adze [2x], small stone quadrangular toki with flake marks over the entire, surface polishing to blade edge and small flakes off the cutting edge, vertical side taper to straight poll,. Length 13.2 cm, toki /adze, roughout, blade end step and… | *** | |
*** | Two kete, the largest width.59 cm. Provenance: John Perry collection | *** | |
*** | Pounamu kuru pendant. kawakawa variety with attached gilt brass suspension ring. Y13505. Length 6 cm | *** | |
*** | Mako pendant, with attached gold ring | *** | |
*** | Patu aruhe, (fern root beater), Y18304. Length 34 cm | *** | |
*** | Toki pounamu, Kawakawa variety with traditional lapidary markings to the sides L.14 cm | *** | |
*** | Kuru pounamu, Inanga variety pendant with pierced suspension hole. Length 7 cm | *** | |
*** | Pounamu Hei Matu, fish hook pendant in translucent tangiwai L.2.8 cm | *** | |
*** | Five Ceraware dishes and two coasters, decorated in enamel on copper with Maori motifs | *** | |
*** | Santa Cruz Island pendant Tema, gold lipped nacre shell cut in a crescent shape with attached overlaid frigate bird rendered in tortoise shell held on fibre cord with white and red cut currency discs and small tortoise shell beads. Width 18 cm | *** | |
*** | Soloman Island Comb, together with an Ablem Island Yam Mask, Fijian Priest Dish, cannibal fork and aPapua New Guinea Mask | *** | |
*** | Ketu, wooden digging implement, dark brown wood, oval handle and single suspension hole, short rounded edged shaft, paddle shaped blade, length 39.6 cm. Provenance: Estate of John Lawford. | *** | |
*** | Digging stick, long carved medium brown pole tapering to a point at one end the other a narrow blunt end, split in the wood near blunt end, length 247 cm. Provenance: Estate of John Lawford. | *** | |
*** | Toki, adze [2x], greywacke toki with straight sharp blade, short sharp bevel with marked chin, vertical sides, slightly shaped. Poll end chipped, incomplete. Length 10 cm. Toki /Adze stone of dark colour with straight sharp blade, short sharp bevel, poll… | *** | |
*** | Maori figure with paua disc eyes carved holding a patu aloft. Height 40 cm | *** | |
*** | Pre European argillite toki, of quadrangular shape, Y 13569. Length 18 cm. Provenance: Dame Judith Binney and Sebastian black collection | *** | |
*** | Stone sinker, with lashing grove, Y17542 | *** | |
*** | Ti Toki bottle modelled as a tekoteko figure, lincoln wines pottery flask decorated with a tekoteko figure and a manaia together with a green glazed tekoteko figure (3). | *** | |
*** | Three small kete, with raranga, Y12954, Y12952, Y12953. Width 27 cm max | *** | |
*** | Small toki pounamu, kawakawa variety L.8 cm | *** | |
*** | Toki pounamu, Inanga variety L.8.5 cm | *** | |
*** | Toki pounamu, bowenite variety (Tangiwai). Length 17 cm | *** | |
*** | Small toki pounamu, Inanga variety L.9 cm | *** | |
*** | An ebonised folk figure with wheku face and paua shell eyes. Length 45 cm | *** | |
*** | Group of eight various flax items, 20th century | *** | |
*** | Tokelau island fishing bucket (tuluma). Length 24 width 17. Height 15 cm | *** | |
*** | A pair of retro 'Hawaiian' bar stools, in nice condition, of hourglass form with fivepoint cane bases and floral upholstery to seat pads | *** | |
*** | Ceramic figure of an African lady, signed. Height 12 cm | *** | |
*** | Caved Maori koruru mask, 23 x 15 cm | *** | |
*** | Solomon Islands paddle shaped club, together with two other Solomon Island clubs | *** | |
*** | A Malekula island grade ceremony figure Temes nevimbure, constructed of plant fibre and smoked spider webbing. Painted in orange and black pigment and embellished with pigs tusks, raised on a wooden stake. Length 1010 | *** | |
*** | A group of seven toki, Y16684, Y12997, Y16681, Y13070, Y13051, Y13068, Y13075. Length 14.5 cm max. | *** | |
*** | Argillite Potaka, (spinning top). Length 10 cm | *** | |
*** | Small argillite ridge back toki. Length 9.2 cm | *** | |
*** | Pair of fine woven kete | *** | |
*** | Alan Brown, two pounamu pendants, of natural yellow-green tone. Height 40 mm | *** | |
*** | Stone toki | *** | |
*** | Small toki pounamu. Length 7.5 cm | *** | |
*** | Kuru pounamu, tangiwai (bowenite) variety with pieced suspension hole Length 8.5 cm | *** | |
*** | Margaret Sumich, Waka vase, ceramic with volcanic textured surface in dripping greens, Height 25 cm | *** | |
*** | Two African hand-painted Folk Art figures | *** | |
*** | Maori folk art box. the top with a carved wheku head with paua shell eyes. Width 16 cm | *** | |
*** | Toki pounamu, kawakawa variety L.7 cm | *** | |
*** | Whao pounamu, Inanga variety, length 5.5 cm | *** | |
*** | Kuru pounamu, kawakawa variety with pierced suspension hole, length 5 cm | *** | |
*** | A large Fijian Tapa cloth section | *** | |
*** | Four food gathering kete. Width 60 cm max | *** | |
*** | Four food gathering kete. Width 44.5 cm max | *** | |
*** | Small toki pounamu. Length 6.8 cm | *** | |
*** | New Zealand Maori wars cannon ball, weight: 9 poun. Diameter. Diameter 10 cm | *** | |