*** | Fijian tabua (ceremonial marine ivory tooth), attached woven binding. 15 cm length | *** | |
*** | Rare Tongan Kava bowl on 10 legs and in the form of a large turtle, presumed to have come from a Chief. Height 23 cm. Diameter 73 cm. (to outer edge) | *** | |
*** | Early Fijian Rootstock Club. The rootstock of the tree forming the head of the club, the handle incised with zigzag design. Fine reddishbrown patina. Length 111 cm. Width 9 cm. Provenance: T. Clemence Collection, New Zealand | *** | |
*** | Solomon Island Club. Long slender leaf shaped blade in orthodox form with raised medial ridge to face. Rich brown patina. Length 128 cm. Width 10 cm. Provenance: T. Clemence Collection, New Zealand | *** | |
*** | A Fijian Sali (gunstock club). Smooth patina and coloured string binding (magimagi) to upper shaft. Stippled pattern to top of head. Length 98 cm | *** | |
*** | Fijian tabua (ceremonial marine ivory tooth), attached woven fibre necklace. 16 cm length | *** | |
*** | A Fijian tabua (ceremonial marine ivory tooth), pierced for suspension, attached later binding. 12 cm length | *** | |
*** | A Fijian tabua (ceremonial marine ivory tooth), Attahed woven binding. 17 cm length | *** | |
*** | Carved ceremonial Tongan club | *** | |
*** | A Fijian Bowai club smooth patina and intricate banded carving to end of shaft. Length 103 cm. | *** | |
*** | Fijian tabua (ceremonial marine ivory tooth), with attached woven binding. Old newspaper affixed. 14 cm length | *** | |
*** | Fijian wooden throwing club c. 1890 (carved pattern on the handle). Length 40 cm | *** | |
*** | Fijian Rootstock club the rootstock of the tree forming the club. Remnants of lashing to handle. Length 106 cm | *** | |
*** | Fijian Ula throwing club with bulbous head and inlaid tooth, fine deep reddish brown patina, height 42 cm | *** | |
*** | Niue Island Model Canoe. Hollowed form, pierced holes for attachment, carving to bow and stern. Mid-brown patina overall. Length 108 cm. Width 9.5 cm. Provenance: T. Clemence Collection, New Zealand | *** | |
*** | Fijian Club Ula. Type of throwing or missile club with medium-brown, rich patina. Height 39 cm. Width 8 cm. Provenance: T. Clemence Collection, New Zealand | *** | |
*** | Fijian Tabua - Ceremonial Whale Tooth Polished sperm whale tooth with two pierced holes binding attached. Rich creamy golden patina. Length 17 cm, width 5 cm. (tooth only). Provenance: T. Clemence Collection, New Zealand | *** | |
*** | A Fijian Ula (throwing club), with carved spherical fluted head and smooth grip with suspension hole. 30 cm length | *** | |
*** | A fine Fijian tapa cloth, early 19th century example decorated with complex geometric patterns in alternating bands of black, white and brown, 86 x 127 cm | *** | |
*** | Rare Fijian headrest constructed of wood with three carved legs and raised decoration to top, dry mid brown patina, height 14 cm x, length 72 cm | *** | |
*** | Samoan Club. Pole club with triangular decoration inlaid with lime. Rich brown patina. Length 94 cm. Width 4 cm. Provenance: T. Clemence Collection, New Zealand | *** | |
*** | Superb style 19th century Cook Island stool with good patina and ogee style feet. Height 9.5 cm. Width 35.5 cm. | *** | |
*** | A Fijian tabua (ceremonial marine ivory tooth), with suspension holes. 15 cm length | *** | |
*** | Solomon Islands club classic form with diamond shaped head and raised medial ridge tapering to a bound handle with flared end, Malaita, Solomon Islands, length 82 cm. Provenance: Private Collection United Kingdom | *** | |
*** | A large Solomon Island feast bowl. Carved ebonised elliptical form with decorative side handles and intricate abalone shell inlay. Length 85 cm | *** | |
*** | Early Samoan War Club. Diamondsectioned top half with pyramidal head. Serrated carving around midsection and remnants of white chalk in carved decorative grooves. Length 86 cm. Width 8.6 cm | *** | |
*** | Fijian War Club totokia. Classic form with white substance impressed into carving at head. Length 95 cm, W13 cm | *** | |
*** | A Duala Cerimonial Paddle. Finely carved head and handle. Dark brown patina. Length 129 cm. Width 13 cm. Provenance: T. Clemence Collection | *** | |
*** | Fijian tabua (ceremonial marine ivory tooth), incised cross. Pierced for suspension. 14 cm length | *** | |
*** | Late 19th century Fijian club (Ula) with carved grip | *** | |
*** | A Tongan food bowl. Height 11 cm. Length 45 cm | *** | |
*** | 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 | *** | |
*** | An important early 19th century Fijian Yagona dish from Western Vitlevu, elongated elliptical shape with a pierced tapering handle. Carved from sacred vesi wood which was typically used for religious vessels. This vessel, historically belonged to the… | *** | |
*** | A good Fijian tabua (ceremonial marine ivory tooth), with attached woven fiber, 19 cm length | *** | |
*** | Solomon Island golden lipped pearl shell pendant, crescent shape with an attached carved tortoiseshell frigate bird held on a cut red shell necklace | *** | |
*** | Fijian Kiakaro club, orthodox incurve to top, two shells lashed to shaft, length 90 cm | *** | |
*** | Fijian Rootstock club the rootstock of the tree forming the club. Length 109 cm | *** | |
*** | Fine Solomon Islands club leaf shaped blade, raised medial ridge to face bound with very fine orchid fibre binding with black and red highlights, rich brown patina, length 114 cm length | *** | |
*** | Fijian club 'Ulasoua' with good grip pattern. Length 42 cm | *** | |
*** | A Fijian Ula (throwing club), fully carved lobed natural root ball head and notched grip. 43 cm length | *** | |
*** | A Fijian Sali (Gunstock club) Rough crosshatching on underside of curved head. Coloured string binding (magimagi) to entire shaft. Length 92 cm. | *** | |
*** | Fijian neck rest, 19th century, flattened rectangular slightly curved top, raised on triangulated feet with attached sennit cord binding, 46 cm length | *** | |
*** | Pair of Fijian Ula - clubs bulbous head with decoration to handles, length 40 cm max | *** | |
*** | Solomon Islands comb good example tightly woven orchid fibre holding strips of coconut wood, height 22 cm | *** | |
*** | Samoan club of traditional form, light brown patina, length 106 cm | *** | |
*** | Fijian Club. Kiakavo of well-balanced proportion. Orthodox rough incurve at top. Superb rich dark patina. Length 82.6 cm. Width 22.2 cm | *** | |
*** | Solomon Island Club. Long slender leaf shaped blade in orthodox form. Rich brown patina. Length 110 cm. Width 11.6 cm. Provenance: T. Clemence Collection, New Zealand | *** | |
*** | Solomon Island Club. Malaita, with a diamond shaped head and mid-rib in the form of a cross moving down to a hooked crescent shaped butt. Blackened fibre binding on grip. Dark brown patina. Length 68.5 cm. Width 12 cm. Provenance: T. Clemence Collection,… | *** | |
*** | Fijian Tapa Pounder. Grooves carved into three of four sides. Length 40 cm. Width 5 cm | *** | |
*** | 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 | *** | |
*** | A Cook Islands calcite pounder, rounded cross section bulbous body tapering to a flared turret top, 15 cm height | *** | |
*** | Five various stone tools from the Pitcairn Islands | *** | |
*** | Fijian Rootstock club, the rootstock of the tree forming the club. Simple geometric design to the handle, length 113 cm | *** | |
*** | Solomon Island club ridges to opposing sides of diamond form blade, mother of pearl 'eye' to top, flared handle. Length 93 cm | *** | |
*** | Polynesian Clamshell adze. Length 15 cm. | *** | |
*** | Two Bourgainville Island paddles height 131 cm, 123 cm | *** | |
*** | Fijian Kava Bowl. Rising from four short, tapering, cylindrical legs, the bowl with fine, delicate, ovoid form, and a rectangular lug pierced through; varied rich, layered, redbrown patina. Height 7 cm, diameter52 cm | *** | |
*** | South Pacific Island head rest of dark timber and well polished, with serrated edge around rectangular base with two upright supports. Height 14 cm. Length 46 cm | *** | |
*** | A Fijian tabua whale tooth has a very smooth patina. Tooth. Length 15 cm. | *** | |
*** | A Fijian Bowai club, rich dark patina with notched grip. 47 cm length | *** | |
*** | Solomon Islands Bavara circular base with two seated figures, clam shell, height 20 cm | *** | |
*** | Seven Awls from the Pitcairn Islands (Basalt) | *** | |
*** | Polynesian hogback Aze | *** | |
*** | A Marshall Islands stick Navigational chart, square shape with applied cowrie shells, 40 x 40 cm | *** | |
*** | Fijian kava bowl, the hardwood circular bowl with incised pattern to the boarder and with pierced stylised turtle head lug to one side, raised on three tapering cylindrical legs. 46 cm diameter | *** | |
*** | A 19th century Fijian sperm whale tooth (tabua), with a plaited sennit fibre suspension cord | *** | |
*** | Two Solomon Island lime containers, each inlaid with shell decoration, one carved with two opposing heads the other with two outward facing figures | *** | |
*** | Fine and rare Cook Island 'Ei Tomai Pare - Hatband tubular in shape with tightly threaded pink and white shells diameter21 cm | *** | |
*** | Solomon Island figure rare anthropomorphic shark with humanistic legs, possibly used as a fishing float, blackened patina with shell inlay to body and legs | *** | |
*** | Rennell Island head rest of classic form, cylindrical body leading to abstract leg with woven binding attached, 42 cm length | *** | |
*** | A large pre-European Maori kohatu punga (anchor stone). Stone-tooled suspension hole. 31 cm at widest point | *** | |
*** | Solomon Island Club. Long flared blade in orthodox form with carved raised ridge to top. Rich brown patina. Length 82 cm. Width 13 cm. Provenance: T. Clemence Collection, New Zealand | *** | |
*** | Solomon Island Club Alafolo. Finely carved and inlaid with shell at the top in the form of a face with a raised fin or nose, Tapering shaft. Blackened patina. Length 106 cm. Width 6.5 cm. Provenance: T. Clemence Collection, New Zealand | *** | |
*** | A Fijian Sali (Gunstock club) Rough crosshatching on underside of curved head. Coloured string binding (magimagi) to entire shaft. Length 102 cm. | *** | |
*** | A Fijian Sali (Gunstock club) Rough crosshatching on underside of curved head. Dark coloured string binding (magimagi) to entire shaft. Length 92 cm. | *** | |
*** | An early 20th century Elaborately carved Fijian Sali (Gunstock club). Length 92 cm. | *** | |
*** | A Good19th century Fijian kava bowl, rising from eight cylindrical legs, pierced lug for suspension, rich brown patina. 40 cm diameter | *** | |
*** | A rare Solomon Islands war shield with frigate bird motif, wicker made from rattan, with rounded top and bottom. 86 cm height | *** | |
*** | 19th century Tongan Fly Whisk. Length 64 cm. | *** | |
*** | 19th century Samoan kava bowl with 12 legs and suspension lug. Diameter 39 cm. Height 15 cm. | *** | |
*** | Hawaiian wooden poi vessel with three carved gods at base. Height 26.5 cm. | *** | |
*** | Old and rare 19th century Fijian Tapa cloth. Length 401 cm. Width 80 cm. | *** | |
*** | Western Solomons club, vertical line decoration at spatula end. Length 124 cm | *** | |
*** | Five small adzes from the Pitcairn Islands (basalt), Flaked with some polished area. | *** | |
*** | Solomon Island stone adze, anthropomorphic form. 17 cm length | *** | |
*** | A Fijian Ula (throwing club), with smooth spherical head and shaft with notched grip. 40 cm length | *** | |
*** | A Fijian Ula (throwing club), with spherical natural root ball head and shaft with notched grip. 41 cm length | *** | |
*** | Samoan(?) pole club the handle with rectangular geometric decoration. Length 88 cm | *** | |
*** | A finely Woven Melanesian flax basket with larger flax strips on the outside, c. 1870. Height 21 cm. Width17 cm (flax straps a bit longer). Pattern on both sides. (Tilly collection) | *** | |
*** | South Pacific long staff-cum-war club (probably Easter Islands). Carved zig zag decoration at base of grip and further down the shaft. Blunted ends with carved timber decoration to bottom end of shaft in the form of an upside down 'T' (looks like a long… | *** | |
*** | Solomon Island tortoise shell fish hook. Provenance: Barnes collection, 7 cm height | *** | |
*** | Samoan povai club, four bands of notched carving highlighted with limestone. Pierced lug for suspension. 84 cm length | *** | |
*** | A Fijian I Ula Kobo throwing club. Length 46 cm. | *** | |
*** | Malekula Islands (Vanuatu) mambuki stick Used during the boys circumcision procedures. a red clay mask with protruding nose and curled pig tusks with spider webs and vegetable fibre hair on a wooden stick. Length 103 cm | *** | |
*** | An early 20th century Fijian kava bowl with six legs. Diameter 56 cm. Height 18 cm | *** | |
*** | A Fijian Ula (throwing club), with smooth spherical head and shaft with notched grip and suspension hole. 41 cm length | *** | |