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 103 : Tapa mask "tadak"
Salomonen - Bougainville, Nissan Island
Old German Colonial Collection
not available anymore
Lot 104 : Food bowl
Solomon Islands - Tikopia
Frank Reiter, Berlin, Germany
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 105 : Large ceremonial food platter
Vanuatu
Jan Lundberg, Malmö, Sweden
sold EUR 5,500
Lot 106 : Barkcloth beater "ike"
Cook Islands, Rarotonga
Edward Blaine, High Comissioner of the Eastern Pacific Shipping around 1900
not available anymore
Lot 107 : Battle hammer "totokia"
Fidji Islands
Félix Pelt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
not available anymore
Lot 108 : Club
Fidji Islands
German Private Collection, Berlin
sold EUR 2,000
Lot 109 : Fishing lure "pa kahawai"
New Zealand
probably Capitain James Cook, collected on his third voyage to the South Seas, 1776-1779/80 Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland Bernd Schlimper, Düsseldorf, Germany Jean David, Zurich, Switzerland Swiss Private Collection
sold EUR 3,800
Lot 110 : Club
Niue Island
sold EUR 900
Lot 111 : Club
Samoa
American Collection
sold EUR 850
Lot 112 : Figure of a deity
Tonga
Margherita Mona Comotto-Staley, Portsmouth, Great Britain Andrew Staley, Nottingham, Great Britain
sold EUR 7,000
Lot 113 : Fish hook, 19th century
Marshall Islands
sold EUR 500
Lot 114 : Bowl
Papua-Neuguinea - Bismarck Archipel - Neu Britannien - Wuvulu
sold EUR 500
Lot 115 : Barkpainting: "Barramundi"
Australia - Arnhemland
acquired in Sydney, Australia (1961/62)
sold EUR 600
Lot 117 : Barkpainting: Two fish
Australia - Arnhemland
acquired in Sydney, Australia (1961/62)
sold EUR 250
Lot 118 : Hunting stick "nula nula" or "waddy"
Australia, Central
Dieter Schnurr, Cologne, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 119 : Two ceremonial spears
Australia - Tiwi Islands
sold EUR 350
Lot 120 : Spearthrower "woomera"
Australia
Todd Barlin, Sydney, Australia
not available anymore
Lot 121 : Spearthrower "woomera"
Australia, Eyre, Rainforest, Cape York Peninsula
not available anymore
Lot 122 : Parrying shield
Australia
Old Belgian Collection
not available anymore
Lot 123 : Parrying shield
Australia, Southeast
British Collection
not available anymore
Lot 124 : Bullroarer
Australia
Old British Collection
sold EUR 550
Lot 125 : Big sacred board "tjuringa"
Australia
sold EUR 2,600
Lot 126 : Sacred board "tjuringa"
Australia
American Collection
sold EUR 2,800
Lot 127 : Sacred board "tjuringa"
Australia
British Collection
sold EUR 2,800
Lot 128 : Sacred board "tjuringa"
Australia
British Collection
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 129 : Sacred board "tjuringa"
Australia
British Collection
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 130 : Sacred board "tjuringa"
Australia
American Collection
sold EUR 800
Lot 131 : Sacred board "tjuringa"
Australia
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 132 : Boomerang
Australia, Desert, Western
not available anymore
Lot 133 : Boomerang
Australia
Anthony JP Meyer, Paris, France
sold EUR 550
Lot 134 : Boomerang
Australia, Desert, Central
sold EUR 390
Lot 135 : Boomerang
Australia
not available anymore
Lot 136 : Hook boomerang "swan neck", ca. 1900
Australia
Dieter Schnurr, Cologne, Germany
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 137 : Fossilized miniature comb
Alaska, Inuit, late-Punuk period/Thule
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 138 : Prehistoric anthropomorphic torso
Alaska, St. Lawrence Island, Okvik
sold EUR 1,800
Lot 139 : Fossilized miniature sculpture of an ice bear
Alaska, St. Lawrence Island, Punuk Culture
sold EUR 900
Lot 140 : Miniature sculpture of a polar bear
Alaska, Inuit
Rob Vervoort, Brussels, Belgium
sold EUR 600
Lot 141 : Miniature sculpture of a seal
Alaska, Inuit
Joseph Gerena, New York, USA
sold EUR 300
Lot 142 : Three small bird sculptures
Alaska, St. Lawrence Island
sold EUR 200
Lot 143 : Zoomorphic object
Alaska, Inuit
Joseph Gerena, New York, USA
sold EUR 1,800
Lot 144 : Stylized anthropomorphic figurine
Alaska, Inuit
Joseph Gerena, New York, USA
sold EUR 400
Lot 145 : Miniature figure of a shaman, late 19th/early 20th century
Alaska, Point Hope, Yupik
sold EUR 400
Lot 146 : Harpoon head with stone blade
Alaska, Inuit
Joseph Gerena, New York, USA
not available anymore
Lot 147 : Harpoon tip
Alaska, Inuit
Joseph Gerena, New York, USA
not available anymore
Lot 148 : Mask of a forest spirit "tsonoqua", before 1924
Kanada, Vancouver Island, Kwakiutl
Trader James B. Goetting, Beaverdell, British Columbia, Canada (1924) Georg Frigge, Hamburg Osdorf, Germany (acquired 1962)
sold EUR 2,800
Lot 149 : Model totem pole, early period
Canada, Haida
Joshua Dimondstein, Brussels, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 151 : Idol, ca. 300 B.C.
Mexico, Guerrero
American Collection, Pennsylvania
sold EUR 350
Lot 152 : Head sculpture, Post Classic Period, ca. 900 - 1500 AD
Mexico, Toltecs
sold EUR 250
Lot 153 : Vessel, ca. 1200 - 1450 AD
South America, Inca
German Private Collection, Berlin (1962)
not available anymore
Lot 154 : Anthropomorphic vessel, ca. 1250 AD
Colombia, Narino
not available anymore