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Auction House:
Dunbar Sloane Ltd.
Number of lots recorded:96
Lots with images:96
Prices available:96
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*** Contact period Maori twisted flax hand made fishing line. ***
*** Late 18th century Maori greenstone kuru (pendant/chisel) dark green colour with hourglass hole. Length 11 cm. ***
*** An 18th century Maori wooden ko (digging stick) with plaited cord. No step. Length 267 cm. ***
*** Two 18th/19th century Maori stone toki (adzes) length 22 cm. Length 19 cm. ***
*** A gate pa bible Found under a house in the gate pa battle site. in bad condition. Old Maori writing on front pages. ***
*** A Fijian I Ula Drisia throwing club thin handle with smooth patina. Zig zag decoration to butt. Some cavities in head. Length 44 cm. ***
*** A small Fijian Sali (Gunstock club) very fine crosshatching on underside of curved head. Coloured string (magimagi) on entire shaft. Length 62 cm. ***
*** Large greenstone heart pendant ***
*** A good Pre-European toki (greywacke), tapering quadrangular form with well defined lateral edges. Poll uneven, highly polished throughout with evidence of heat treatment, 26 cm length. ***
*** A mahe (stone sinker), volcanic stone with lashing grooves, 9 cm length. ***
*** Early 20th century hei tiki, Kawakawa variety stone, rudimentary facial features, both arms resting on thighs. Lower leg section broken away, 6 cm length. ***
*** A carved wood Maori box, with intricately carved wheku head, 10 cm x 10 cm ***
*** 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 ***
*** Two pounamu Whao (chisels), upper sections broken away, 8 cm, 5 cm. ***
*** Three assorted wooden wahaika, 41 cm, 40 cm, 37 cm length ***
*** Toki adze blade, Quadrangular shape, chipped to the blade ***
*** Two Aboriginal boomerangs and a digging stick ***
*** Three stone adzes length 20 cm. Length 12 cm. Length 16.3 cm ***
*** Maori 20th century greenstone tiki length 10 cm, width 6 cm ***
*** 20th century oval Wakahuia box with three rauru spirals on lid, the heads on each end have paua shell inset eyes. Length 53 cm ***
*** Three 18th century or earlier toki, of classic tapering form, length 18 cm,15 cm,13 cm. ***
*** Possible Pitcairn Island bowl carved as a sea bird 40.5 cm ***
*** Three Maori whale bone spear tips, one carved with a wheku head. ***
*** A Pre-European toki pounamu. Carved in kawakawa variety stone. Smooth polished surface and bevel with natural scarring to the face, underside, and right poll edge. Frits to cutting edge. Length 8 cm. ***
*** A fine early 20th century Solomon Islands comb. Fern wood tines decoratively bound with yellow-orchid fibers and red coloured coconut palm frond fiber. Height 17 cm ***
*** Wharetana plate brown glaze with tiki figures, impression number 1024,14 cm diameter (faults) ***
*** 20th century Maori carved small wooden box with sliding lid. Carved all over. Length 12 cm. ***
*** 19th century rare Papua New Guinea hand made pottery bowl. Decorated with geometric cross hatched lines and small bumps around the rim. Found in the field. Height 10 cm. Length 21 cm. Provenance: Rev. Williams 1930s ***
*** Late 19th/early 20th century Papua New Guinea hand carved wooden figure of a birdman. Found in the Ramu river. Height 28 cm. Provenance: Rev. Williams 1930s ***
*** Late 19th/early 20th century Massim Culture District wooden hand carved bowl. Decorated with a fish/sea creature. Traces of white colouring. Height 10 cm. Length 42 cm. Provenance: Rev. Williams 1930s ***
*** Large Australian boomerang with carved emus and kangaroos etc. Length 80 cm ***
*** Papua New Guinea woven Geko or lizard figure. Length 60 cm ***
*** Makonde - Makua tribal group mask from Tanzania/ Mozambique. Wooden mask with feather bloom in hair. Height 34 cm. Width 20 cm. ***
*** 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) ***
*** Small pounamu toki, Poll flaked and uneven with polished bevel and sharp blade. ***
*** A 20th century Piupiu (Maori waist garment), made from mature rolled Harakeke flax leaf tags, with two bands of black pigment and patterned taniko band with platted ties and tassels. 98 cm width ***
*** Small pounamu hei tiki, type I form carved in Bowenite variety stone, eyes embellished with red ceiling wax. Countersunk suspension hole at the top. 5 cm length. ***
*** Three Polynesian adzes, course volcanic stone. ***
*** 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 ***
*** African Maasai war shield, lenticular form with hide-bound border and wood grip to rear, decoratively painted with abstract designs in green, black and white, 110 cm x 52 cm ***
*** Pou whakairo (free standing carved figure), with two figures one standing on top of the other. The top figure with incipient face with protruding tongue and with hands to abdomen. The body figure similarly rendered. Damage to the base section. 25 cm… ***
*** Pounamu kuru (pendant), Kawakawa variety stone. Small chip to the top. 8 cm length. Y number pending ***
*** Stone shank from a trolling hook with hourglass hole and bevelled end. Length 5.5 cm. ***
*** Naively carved bone heru (hair comb) (damage), 14.5 cm ***
*** Kuru (ear pendant), gray stone pendant, Pieced for suspension, 5 cm length ***
*** A rare stingray barb bird spear tip ***
*** Toki (adze blade), Argillite, tapering quadrangular shape with narrow blade section, 18 cm length. ***
*** Papua New Guinea blackened pottery bowl, decorated with sea horse heads in high relief, 28 cm diameter ***
*** A rare Papua New Guinea pottery food bowl from Soandogum village, decorated with stylised clan motifs with pigment highlights, 29 cm diameter ***
*** Papua New Guinea Sepik River shell currency, the white cut shell discs of graduated size, mounted on a stand, 57 cm high ***
*** Large Tongan adze good example with polished top and sharp striking edge, length 26 cm ***
*** Attributed Hepi Maxwell greenstone triple koru form on greenstone base 9.5 cm height ***
*** Food God tiki 'Teko Teko' by 'Carver' Pene initialled 'P' on reverse and eyes set with paua shell, c. 1960. Height 45 cm ***
*** Tami Island bowl from Papua New Guinea, elongated elliptical shape with zoomorphic carving in high relief to each side. 69 cm length, collection of John Perkins ***
*** A Ramu River paddle from Papua New Guinea, displaying stylized ancestor figures painted with dark pigment to one side of the blade, 170 cm length ***
*** Two wooden wahaika, 44 cm, 35 cm length ***
*** A small Pre-European serpentine toki, 7 cm length. ***
*** A large Pre-European toki, Flaked and hammer dressed, 23 cm length. ***
*** Assorted items from Papua New Guinea, including; a hafted adze, shell currency, body adornment, a carved wood figure, pounder, penis gourd, and others. ***
*** An 18th century stone flax pounder (patu muka). Length 29 cm ***
*** A Maori stone fern root pounder (patu muka). Found in a creek new Matata in the 1930s. Length 24 cm ***
*** A large metal African mask, possibly Benin. Horned with another figure sitting on top. Complex patterning to face. Height 64 cm ***
*** A Papua New Guinean mask, with shell eyes and fibre attaches to ears and septum. Height 40 cm ***
*** A swamp recovered ko (digging implement), showing considerable wear, 183 cm length ***
*** Baule mask finely carved with surmounting horns ***
*** Tekoteko figure three fingered with elongated tongue and paua eyes, height 54 cm ***
*** Four 18th century or earlier toki, of classic tapering form, length 14 cm,13 cm,12 cm, 12 cm. ***
*** Four 18th century or earlier toki, one with lashing tang, length 17 cm, 12 cm, 12 cm,10 cm. ***
*** An 18th century or earlier toki, one of classic tapering form, length 20 cm, 21 cm. ***
*** Greenstone boulder, with one surface cut, 23 x 17 x 15 cm. Approx. 7.5kg ***
*** Folk Art carved trinket box tiki with inset paua shell eyes to sliding cover, length 10.5 cm ***
*** Three stone adzes length 11.5 cm. Length 18 cm. Length 16.1 cm ***
*** A pumice patu, 32 cm length ***
*** Wakahuia lid carved with two opposing male and female figures, 47 cm length ***
*** Large box of moa bone Fragments ***
*** Carved ebonised patu with huia commemorative plate and two others, huia plate measurements - 32 cm ***
*** Three Pre-European toki, 18 cm; 16 cm; 12 cm length. ***
*** Small Adze head in perfect condition, c. 1800 period. Length 7 cm ***
*** Maori wooden shell trumpet 20th century length 24 cm ***
*** Graeme Mudge rimu sculpture, with associated press clipping, 134 cm high ***
*** Four limestone mahe (sinkers) ***
*** Pounamu kuru (pendant), Kawakawa variety stone. Small chip to the top. 9.5 cm length. Y number pending ***
*** Pre-European large toki (greywacke), Flacked and pecked to the grip section, with poll rounded and even, high polished bevel and sharp cutting edge. A small amount of fritting to the blade edge. 21 cm length. ***
*** Pre-European large toki (greywacke), pecked and flaked, polished bevel with sharp blade. 21 cm length. Y number pending. ***
*** Pre-European toki (argillite), well defined lateral edges, flaked and scratched upper section, polished from the midsection to the bevel and cutting edge. Some small flaking to lower section. Sticker label with 'Farewell Spit'. 16 cm length. ***
*** Pre-European toki (argillite), uneven poll, pecked with flake scars to the cutting edge. Paper sticker with 'Late Nelson type'. 16 cm length. ***
*** Pre-European large toki (argillite), extensively flaked, quadrangular form. Old newspaper affixed. 26 cm length. Y number pending ***
*** Punga (anchor), smooth stone with large hole. 13.5 cm length. ***
*** Pre-European toki (argillite), Quadrangular shape, curved underside, pecked and polished. 20 cm length. Y number pending ***
*** A pounamu disc and jade bowl, disc; 11 cm, bowl; 10 cm diameter ***
*** Papua New Guinea Asmat adze, teardrop shape with a rounded blade. Polished surface throughout. 18 cm length ***
*** 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 ***
*** Sago pudding knife from Vanuatu, dark patina. 36 cm length ***
*** Papua New Guinea feast bowl, with carved side handles. Provenance: Nigel Hillind collection, 43 cm length ***
*** Papua New Guinean feeding bowl and three stone tools, two adzes blades and an obsidian dagger with carved handle. Bowl; 60 cm width ***
*** 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… ***