September 8, 2012

70th tribal art auction

African and oceanic tribal art from european private collections

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Highlights

Lot 13: Magic staff "tungkot malehat"
Lot 40: Standing male and female couple
Lot 55: Spirit figure
Lot 65: Ceremonial spear-thrower "mino"
Lot 83: Ritual staff "whakapakoko atua"
Lot 91: Standing male figure
Lot 108: Face mask of the "mblo"group
Lot 110: Standing female figure "lü mä"
Lot 113: Mask with movable jaw
Lot 138: Mask "igri"
Lot 139: Water spirit mask
Lot 140: Water spirit mask
Lot 143: Cermonial mask
Lot 145: Standing ancestor figure
Lot 151: Two oracle tappers "iroke ifa"
Lot 152: Mask "epa"
Lot 153: Female Altar figure for Shango
Lot 157: Female pair of twin figures "ere ibeji"
Lot 158: Male pair of twin figures "ere ibeji"
Lot 159: Caryatid stool
Lot 162: Helmet mask with four faces "ngontang"
Lot 163: Helmet mask "kalunga"
Lot 170: Caryatid stool
Lot 171: Small figure "mbulenga"
Lot 177: Mask "kifwebe"
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Lot 193: Standing female figure
Lot 195: Hyaena mask "suruku"
Lot 197: Standing female figure "jo nyeleni"
Lot 198: Zoomorphic mask (antelope)
Lot 201: Door lock
Lot 202: Door lock
Lot 204: Post of a "togu na"
Lot 205: Post of a "togu na"
Lot 210: Pair of figures
Lot 211: Standing male figure
Lot 212: Figural fragment
Lot 213: Standing male figure
Lot 217: Ceremonial container
Lot 220: Mask
Lot 227: Standing female figure "bateba phuwe"
Lot 245: Pair of figures
Lot 249: Standing ape figure "gbekre"
Lot 251: Mask "deangle"
Lot 264: Standing female figure "deble"
Lot 285: Altar tusk of a royal ancestral altar "aru erha"
Lot 287: Couple of figures
Lot 293: Mask "idiok ekpo" with hinged jaw
Lot 304: Big standing male figure
Lot 305: Standing female figure
Lot 325: Dance staff "oshe shango"
Lot 326: Dance staff "oshe shango"
Lot 327: Shrine figure "eshu"
Lot 342: Helmet mask "epa"
Lot 344: Maternité
Lot 361: Standing male figure
Lot 362: Standing male figure
Lot 363: Reliquary guardian figure "mbulu" or "mwete"
Lot 364: Face mask
Lot 365: Mourning face mask "okuyi"
Lot 368: Head sculpture
Lot 373: Power figure "nkisi"
Lot 374: Janus dog nail-studded power figure "nkisi nkonde"
Lot 376: Standing male figure
Lot 379: Standing female figure "mukuya"
Lot 380: Standing female figure "mukuya"
Lot 381: Mask
Lot 384: Standing female figure
Lot 390: Standing female ancestor figure
Lot 391: Young maiden mask "mwana pwo"
Lot 398: Caryatid stool
Lot 407: Mask "nsembu"
Lot 413: Small standing figure
Lot 414: Mask "idimu"
Lot 415: Mask "lukungu"
Lot 419: Janus-headed ritual figure of "bukota" society
Lot 430: Power figure
Lot 443: Figurally carved stool
Lot 451: Standing female figure
Lot 454: Caryatid stool
Lot 456: Janus-headed power figure "nkisi"
Lot 457: Standing male power figure "nkisi"
Lot 460: Personal magical half figure "nkisi"
Lot 476: Standing power figure "biteki"
Lot 488: Seated figure
Lot 493: Orator staff
Lot 494: Mask
Lot 495: Dignitary staff "umbweti"
Lot 503: Stool

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Lot 51 : War club
Papua New Guinea - Massim, Trobriand Islands
Anton Eckert, Munich, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 52 : Lime spatula
Papua New Guinea - Trobriand Islands, Massim
Francois Coppens, Brussels, Belgium
sold EUR 450
Lot 53 : Ceremonial axe
Papua New Guinea - Mount Hagen
collected in situ by the German radio officer Lehr, on duty for North German Lloyd (on a ship caled "Friderum"), 1921-1928
not available anymore
Lot 54 : Small male figure
Papua New Guinea - Ramu River
collected in situ by the German Radio Officer Lehr, on duty for the North German Lloyd (on a ship called "Friderum"), 1921-1928
sold EUR 2,500
Lot 55 : Spirit figure
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
Loed van Bussel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Australian Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 56 : Anthropomorphic mask
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
collected in situ by Bruce Lawes, Papua New Guinea (1955 - 1969)
not available anymore
Lot 57 : Overmodeled ancestor skull
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
Manfred Steffmann, Günne, Germany (collected 1950 - 1958)
sold EUR 4,500
Lot 58 : Standing female ancestor figure
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
Old Belgian Collection Joseph Franzen, Heerlen, The Netherlands (1990's)
not available anymore
Lot 59 : Lance
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
Held, Passau, Germany Manfred Zirngibl, Passau, Germany
sold EUR 100
Lot 60 : Three lances
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
Held, Passau, Germany Manfred Zirngibl, Passau, Germany (a, b)
sold EUR 200
Lot 61 : Pestle
Papua New Guinea - Lower Sepik, Kairiru Island
Manfred Steffmann, Günne, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 62 : Small standing ancestor figure
Papua New Guinea - Lower Sepik
collected in situ by the German Radio Officer Lehr, on duty for the North German Lloyd (on a ship called "Friderum"), 1921-1928
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 63 : Male ancestor figure "kandingbong"
Papua New Guinea - Lower Sepik
collected in situ by the German Radio Officer Lehr, on duty for the North German Lloyd (on a ship called "Friderum"), 1921-1928
not available anymore
Lot 64 : Spear thrower
Papua New Guinea - Lower Sepik
collected in situ by the German Radio Officer Lehr, on duty for the North German Lloyd (on a ship called "Friderum"), 1921-1928
not available anymore
Lot 65 : Ceremonial spear-thrower "mino"
Papua New Guinea - Middle Sepik
not available anymore
Lot 66 : Gable mask
Papua New Guinea - Middle Sepik, Iatmul
collected in situ by the German Radio Officer Lehr, on duty for the North German Lloyd (on a ship called "Friderum"), 1921-1928
sold EUR 4,000
Lot 67 : Food bowl
Papua New Guinea - Tami Islands
collected in situ by the German Radio Officer Lehr, on duty for the North German Lloyd (on a ship called "Friderum"), 1921-1928
sold EUR 650
Lot 68 : Spear with obsidian point
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - Admirality Islands
sold EUR 80
Lot 69 : Spear with obsidian point
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - Admirality Islands
sold EUR 150
Lot 70 : Spear with obsidian point
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - Admirality Islands
sold EUR 120
Lot 71 : Three spears
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Britain - Gazelle Peninsula, Nakanai
Held, Passau, Germany Manfred Zirngibl, Passau, Germany
sold EUR 150
Lot 72 : Spear
Solomon Islands
Old English Private Collection
sold EUR 1,800
Lot 73 : Shell money
Solomon Islands
Schusters, Eschbach, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 74 : Forehead ornament
Solomon Islands
sold EUR 260
Lot 75 : Spear
Solomon Islands - Buka Island
Held, Passau, Germany Manfred Zirngibl, Passau, Germany
sold EUR 450
Lot 76 : Spear
Solomon Islands - Buka Island
Held, Passau, Germany Manfred Zirngibl, Passau, Germany
sold EUR 450
Lot 77 : Spear
Solomon Islands - Buka Island
Held, Passau, Germany Manfred Zirngibl, Passau, Germany
sold EUR 450
Lot 78 : Spear
Solomon Islands - Buka Island
sold EUR 300
Lot 79 : Feather money
Solomon Islands - Santa Cruz Islands
Edgar de Boer
sold EUR 4,800
Lot 80 : Necklace
Kiribati - Gilbert Islands
Steussloff Irmer, Berlin, Germany (1899) Linden-Museum Stuttgart, Germany (I.C.5554) Anton Eckert, Munich, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 81 : Throwing club "ulatavatava"
Fidji Islands
not available anymore
Lot 82 : War club "totokia"
Fidji Islands
Smith Estate, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Lorne Balshine, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
not available anymore
Lot 83 : Ritual staff "whakapakoko atua"
New Zealand, Maori
Sotheby's Paris, 11 June 2008, lot 62
not available anymore
Lot 84 : Ear ornament
New Zealand, Maori
sold EUR 450
Lot 85 : Nail club
Australia
Smith Estate, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Lorne Balshine, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 86 : Two necklaces
West Africa
Harald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany
sold EUR 100
Lot 87 : Ancestor spirit mask "ge"
Liberia, Kran/ Ngere/ Wobe
George W. Harley, Ganta, Liberia (collected in situ) Ladislas Segy, New York, USA (1952) Harald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany (1979)
sold EUR 2,500
Lot 88 : Horned mask
Guinea, Toma
Property of a New Jersey Private Collector Sotheby's Parke Bernet New York, 2. & 3. June 1981, lot 387 Harald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany
sold EUR 900
Lot 89 : Helmet mask "sowei" of the "bundu" society
Sierra Leone, Mende
Hans Wolff, Zurich, Switzerland Karl-Ferdinand Schädler, Munich, Germany Harald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany (1977)
sold EUR 1,300
Lot 90 : Mask with hinged jaw
Guinea, Guerze
Paolo Morigi, Lugano, Switzerland (collected in situ in the region of Lofa Country/Liberia) Harald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany (1967)
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 91 : Standing male figure
Mali, Dogon
John J. Klejman, New York, USA Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, New York, USA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Inv.no 56.379) Sotheby's New York, 14 November 1980, lot 98 Harald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany
sold EUR 3,800
Lot 92 : Small double figure
Mali, Dogon
René David, Zurich, Switzerland Harald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany (1986)
sold EUR 50
Lot 93 : Seated figure
Mali, Dogon
Harald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany
sold EUR 120
Lot 94 : Small figure
Mali, Dogon
Harald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany (1977, acquired in Mopti, Mali)
sold EUR 260
Lot 95 : Figurally carved tool handle
Mali, Dogon
Harald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany (1977)
sold EUR 120
Lot 96 : Doorlock in the shape of a turtle
Mali, Dogon
Harald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany
sold EUR 100
Lot 97 : Hare mask "dyommo"
Mali, Dogon
American Private Collection, New York Harald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany (1978)
sold EUR 500
Lot 98 : Fragment of a mask "kanaga"
Mali, Dogon
Harald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany (1981, acquired from Boubou Diarre in Mopti, Mali)
sold EUR 350
Lot 99 : Antelope mask "walu"
Mali, Dogon
Harald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany (1977, acquired from Boubou Diarre in Mopti, Mali)
sold EUR 600
Lot 100 : Arm ornament
Burkina Faso
Helmut Zake, Heidelberg, Germany, 1983 (c) Harald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany a) (1980), b) (1982)
sold EUR 150

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