October 31, 2015

81st Tribal Art Auction

A rich and diverse selection: Important and powerful sculptures and masks from Africa, Australia, Asia and Oceania. Sensitive and delicate barkpaintings from the western Arnhemland. Samurai armaments from the Edo Period. A fine old Netsuke collection. Ceramics from the Nazca culture as well as works from the Inuit and First Nations.

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Highlights

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Lot 14: Superb anthropomorphic (ancestor) mask, around 1800
Lot 42: Fine old netsuke: Flute playing boy riding on the back of a bull, 19th century
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Lot 44: Samurai armour, Edo period
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Lot 45: Samurai armour, Edo period
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Lot 76: Overmodelled ancestor skull, before 1920
Lot 90: Large standing figure
Lot 105: Large ceremonial food platter
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Lot 112: Figure of a deity
Lot 115: Barkpainting: "Barramundi"
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Lot 123: Parrying shield
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Lot 169: Mask "anbai" or "nyangbai"
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Lot 185: Mask "dyodyomini"
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Lot 186: Vessel's lid with sitting male figure on top "ogo banya" or "ogo koro"
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Lot 187: Standing figure
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Lot 188: Standing female figure with child
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Lot 189: Standing male figure with raised arms
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Lot 190: Sitting male figure
Lot 191: Standing figure
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Lot 211: Standing male figure "blolo bian"
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Lot 214: Horned mask "kpan"
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Lot 215: Portrait mask "ndoma" of the "mblo" group
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Lot 229: Mask
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Lot 241: Heddle pulley with anthropomorphic head
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Lot 245: Mask "bugle"
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Lot 249: Standing male figure
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Lot 305: Standing female figure
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Lot 310: Rare ram heads "osamasinmi"
Lot 311: Court attendant with ceremonial sword "eben"
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Lot 335: Superb title stool
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Lot 376: Throne, around 1900
Lot 390: Helmet mask
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Lot 392: Rare, old Commemorative Figure of a King "fon", late 19th century
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Lot 406: Female puppet
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Lot 409: Reliquary guardian figure "mbulu-ngulu" ("spirit of a deceased")
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Lot 410: Reliquiary figure "mboy"
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Lot 424: Power figure "nkisi", before 1929
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Lot 426: Bell mask "alunga"
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Lot 436: Standing male ancestor figure "singiti"
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Lot 451: Mask "lukungu"
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Lot 452: Standing hermaphrodite "iginga" of "bwami" society
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Lot 495: Standing male power figure "nkisi"
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Lot 499: Old helmet mask "hemba", around 1900
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Lot 529: Mask "mwana pwo"

81st Tribal Art Auction

Lot 52 : Lance "jumonji yari"
Japan
not available anymore
Lot 53 : "Yari saya" with feathers
Japan
not available anymore
Lot 54 : "Yari saya"
Japan
not available anymore
Lot 55 : Rare sword guard "dai tsuba"
Japan
not available anymore
Lot 56 : Sword guard "tsuba"
Japan
sold EUR 700
Lot 57 : Sword guard "tsuba"
Japan
sold EUR 700
Lot 58 : Sword guard "tsuba"
Japan
sold EUR 350
Lot 59 : Sword guard "tsuba", Jakushi school, late 17th century
Japan
not available anymore
Lot 60 : Sword guard "tsuba"
Japan
not available anymore
Lot 61 : Sword guard "sukashi tsuba"
Japan
not available anymore
Lot 62 : Sword guard "sukashi tsuba"
Japan
not available anymore
Lot 63 : Big ornament and currency ring "yua"
Papua New Guinea, Abelam
sold EUR 3,600
Lot 64 : Bone dagger
Papua New Guinea, Abelam
Swiss Collection (1970's)
sold EUR 500
Lot 65 : Portrait of a spirit head
Papua New Guinea, Abelam
Heinz Eckert-Greifendorff, Aachen, Germany
sold EUR 250
Lot 66 : Standing male ancestor figure "kawe"
Westneuguinea / Westpapua (Irian Jaya), Asmat
sold EUR 800
Lot 67 : Bowl
Westneuguinea / Westpapua (Irian Jaya), Asmat
Paul Brandt, Amsterdam, June 1975, lot 1693
sold EUR 550
Lot 68 : Amulet bag of zoomorphic shape
Papua New Guinea - Boiken area
Michael Hamson, Palos Verdes, USA
not available anymore
Lot 69 : Hand drum "apa"
Papua New Guinea - Golf, Elema/Purari Delta
Helmut Gutbrod, Berlin, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 70 : Ancestral board "gope"
Papua New Guinea - Golf, Wapo Creek
not available anymore
Lot 71 : Spirit board "hohao"
Papua New Guinea - Golf, Elema
sold EUR 4,500
Lot 72 : Female ancestor figure "bioma"
Papua New Guinea - Golf, Era-River
Gallery Bienenstein, Vienna, Austria
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 73 : Bullroarer "kaiaimunu"
Papua New Guinea - Gulf
Thomas Schultze-Westrum, Germany John Friede, Rye, USA Ulrich Kortmann, Dortmund, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 74 : War shield
Papua New Guinea - Highlands, eastern Highlands, Okapa area
Loed van Bussel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
not available anymore
Lot 75 : Fighting shield
Papua New Guinea - Highlands, Western Highlands, Maring
Ed Glauder, Santa Barbara, USA Michael Auliso, San Francisco, USA
not available anymore
Lot 76 : Overmodelled ancestor skull, before 1920
Papua New Guinea, Iatmul, Kambringi
Museum für Völkerkunde Leipzig, Germany (Kat.-Nr. Me12831, Slg. Martens, Ankauf 1920/64, Orig.Nr. 1) Frank Reiter, Berlin, Germany (im Tausch erworben 1976) Ulrich Kortmann, Dortmund, Germany German Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 77 : Suspension hook
Papua New Guinea, Iatmul
Marc Lissauer, Australia Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland Swiss Private Collection
sold EUR 8,000
Lot 78 : Lime spatula
Papua New Guinea - Trobriand Islands, Massim
American Collection
not available anymore
Lot 79 : Figural carved lime spatula
Papua New Guinea - Trobriand Islands, Massim
acquired in Sydney, Australia (1961/62)
sold EUR 400
Lot 80 : Food dish
Papua New Guinea - Ramu River, Madang Province
English Private Collection
sold EUR 800
Lot 81 : Hand drum "kundu"
Papua New Guinea - Sepik, East Sepik Province, Dreikikir District, Nuku
American Collection
not available anymore
Lot 82 : Hand drum "kundu"
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
Carl Le Hanne, Krefeld, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 83 : Bone dagger
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
not available anymore
Lot 84 : Double suspension hook
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
Dutch Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 85 : Mask
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
sold EUR 3,300
Lot 86 : Mosquito mask "parak"
Papua New Guinea - Sepik Delta
Ulrich Kortmann, Dortmund, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 87 : Big wickerwork mask "didagur"
Papua New Guinea - Middle Sepik
Southern German Collection
sold EUR 400
Lot 88 : Ceremonial spoon
Papua New Guinea - Tami Islands
Elisabeth Verhey, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
not available anymore
Lot 89 : Dance wand "vagi"
Papua New Guinea - Wosera, Wapindukum
Frank Reiter, Berlin, Germany
sold EUR 900
Lot 90 : Large standing figure
Papua-Neuguinea - Yangoru Boiken
collected in situ by Michael Kremerskothen, Dortmund, Germany Loed van Bussel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
sold EUR 4,700
Lot 91 : Leg of a bed "patapat"
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - Admirality Islands
not available anymore
Lot 92 : Canoe prow
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - Admirality Islands
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 93 : Big food bowl
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - Admirality Islands
Ulrich Kortmann, Dortmund, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 94 : Ladle, late 19th/early 20th century
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - Admirality Islands
Norman Hurst, Cambridge, USA
sold EUR 330
Lot 95 : Old spear with wooden tip, before 1914
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - Admirality Islands
sold EUR 550
Lot 96 : Old spear with bipartite tip, before 1914
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - Admirality Islands
sold EUR 550
Lot 97 : Old spear with obsidian tip, before 1914
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - Admirality Islands
sold EUR 350
Lot 98 : Two fish hooks, 19th/early 20th century
Solomon Islands/Papua New Guinea
Dave de Roche, San Francisco, USA American Private Collection, California
sold EUR 450
Lot 99 : Spear
Solomon Islands - Bougainville Island
German Colonial Collection
sold EUR 300
Lot 100 : Spear
Solomon Islands - Bougainville Island
German Colonial Collection
sold EUR 300
Lot 101 : Spear
Solomon Islands - Bougainville Island
German Colonial Collection
not available anymore