February 27, 2016

82nd Tribal Art Auction

The private collection of Hans Rielau. Treasures from West Africa and Central Africa. Memorial heads from the Akan. Elegant Baule figures. New Ireland sculptures with historically important provenances. Finely worked combs and basket-works from the South Seas. Old war club from the Ojibwe people (18th century). Voodoo and headhunting objects.

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Highlights

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Lot 5: Female "bulul"
1/4
Lot 11: Shield "kliau"
1/2
Lot 18: Expressive mask with anthropomorphic features
1/2
Lot 26: Mask, 19th century
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Lot 28: Mask "joker", 19th century
1/4
Lot 49: Male "mai" mask
1/4
Lot 64: Beautiful old ancestor spirit figure "blaal"
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Lot 70: Fragment of a large "malagan" mask with figural crest
1/6
Lot 71: Standing male "malagan" figure
1/2
Lot 79: Rare feather currency roll "manahau" or "tevau"
Lot 97: Half of a container, 100 B.C.-200 AD, Old Bering Sea II period
1/3
Lot 106: Horn spoon, early 19th century
1/6
Lot 107: Ball-head war club, late 18th century
1/2
Lot 115: Small mask "ma go"
1/3
Lot 139: Mask
1/2
Lot 153: Female twin figure "ere ibeji", 19th century
1/4
Lot 156: Pair of male twin figures "ere ibeji"
1/2
Lot 157: Female pair of twin figures "ere ibeji
1/3
Lot 163: Elephant mask
1/2
Lot 181: Small mask "lukwakongo"
1/3
Lot 185: Small mask "lukwakongo"
1/2
Lot 216: Mask "mukinka"
1/5
Lot 304: Standing male figure "blolo bian"
1/6
Lot 309: Maternité
1/2
Lot 316: Maske
1/6
Lot 354: Janus helmet mask "wanyugo"
1/4
Lot 396: Standing male figure
1/4
Lot 402: Ancestor figure
1/6
Lot 435: Rare reliquary figure "éyéma-o-byéri"
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Lot 471: Standing male ancestor figure "singiti"
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Lot 526: Mask "mwana pwo"
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Lot 557: Beautiful spoon

82nd Tribal Art Auction

Lot 1 : Helmet-shaped headdress
Philippines - Bontoc
not available anymore
Lot 2 : Spoon
Philippines - Ifugao
American Private Collection
sold EUR 250
Lot 3 : Figure "hipag"
Philippines - Ifugao
Alain Lecomte, Paris, France
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 4 : Pair of ritual deities "bulul"
Philippines - Ifugao
Wolfgang Thesen, Cologne, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 5 : Female "bulul"
Philippines - Ifugao
Bernhard J. Orten, Mörfelden-Walldorf, Germany
sold EUR 12,000
Lot 6 : Spear
Philippines - Luzon
sold EUR 450
Lot 7 : Drum money "mokko"
Indonesia - Alor
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 8 : Three amulet figures
Indonesia - Borneo, Dayak
sold EUR 700
Lot 9 : Three amulet figures
Indonesia - Borneo, Dayak
not available anymore
Lot 10 : Six amulet figures
Indonesia - Borneo, Dayak
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 500
Lot 11 : Shield "kliau"
Indonesia - Borneo, Dayak
André Lhote, Paris, France, Cubist painter (1885–1962) Drouot-Paris, Collection André Lhote, 17 December 1979, lot 276
not available anymore
Lot 12 : Shield
Indonesia - Moluccas
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 13 : Ancestor figure "hazi nuwu"
Indonesia - Nias
sold EUR 450
Lot 14 : Stool, around 1900
Indonesia - Nias
Clive Loveless, London, England
sold EUR 900
Lot 15 : Standing male figure
Indonesia - Sumatra, Batak
sold EUR 200
Lot 16 : Headpiece of a magic staff "tungkot malehat"
Indonesia - Sumatra, Toba-Batak
Galerie Pascassio Manfredi, Paris, France
sold EUR 1,600
Lot 17 : Suspension hook
Indonesia - Sumba
not available anymore
Lot 18 : Expressive mask with anthropomorphic features
Indonesia - Timor
Jo de Buck, Brussels, Belgium Alain Bovis, Paris, France
not available anymore
Lot 19 : Mask
Indonesia - Timor
not available anymore
Lot 20 : Sickness mask
Indonesia - Timor
sold EUR 350
Lot 21 : Female half figure
Indonesia - Java
Be Kwat Koen, Java, Indonesia (1863-1945) Lindenmuseum Stuttgart, Germany (Inventarnummer: "90082 L.1365./200 Java Be. Kwatkoen") Ralf Lüders, Stuttgart, Germany
sold EUR 1,600
Lot 22 : Ritual sceptre "khatvanga", 19th century
Nepal
Gérard Labre, Paris, France
not available anymore
Lot 23 : Mask
Nepal - Middle Hills
Throckmorton Fine Art, New York, USA
not available anymore
Lot 24 : Mask
Nepal - Middle Hills
Howard & Catherine Feldman, Santa Fe, USA
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 25 : Mask
Nepal - Middle Hills
Howard & Catherine Feldman, Santa Fe, USA
not available anymore
Lot 26 : Mask, 19th century
Nepal - Middle Hills
not available anymore
Lot 27 : Ornamental disc with depiction of "hanuman"
India
not available anymore
Lot 28 : Mask "joker", 19th century
Indien - Arunachal Pradesh, Monpa
not available anymore
Lot 29 : Necklace with "double fish-tail" chest ornament
India, Naga
sold EUR 300
Lot 30 : Belt
India, Naga
sold EUR 360
Lot 31 : Charm in shape of an anthropomorphic face
India, Naga
sold EUR 450
Lot 32 : Lid of a skull receptacle "kapala"
Tibet
sold EUR 450
Lot 33 : Two horns "dungchen"
Tibet
sold EUR 350
Lot 35 : Ceremonial paddle
Papua New Guinea, Aitape (in former times Berlinhafen)
Old German Colonial Collection
sold EUR 600
Lot 36 : Image of a hornbill "pal"
Papua New Guinea, Abelam
Thorsten Grimme, Sydney, Australia
not available anymore
Lot 37 : Magic bone tube
Papua New Guinea, Abelam
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 38 : Ornament ring / currency ring "pal yua"
Papua New Guinea, Abelam
Holger Schmidtgen, Stuttgart, Germany
sold EUR 600
Lot 39 : Ancestor spirit board "gope"
Papua-Neuguinea - April River, Bitara
Gallery Flak, Paris, France
sold EUR 2,000
Lot 40 : Standing male ancestor figure "kawe"
Papua New Guinea, Asmat, village Aworket
Southern German Collection
sold EUR 600
Lot 41 : Replacement skull "kus"
Westneuguinea / Westpapua (Irian Jaya), Asmat
collected in situ (1970) by Jac Hoogerbrugge (1923 - 2014) serving as a transport agent of the Royal Dutch Shipping Company and subsequently, as a UNESCO official in Indonesia and New Guinea allowed him to probe deeply into the ritual art of the Batak (north Sumatra), Lake Sentani, the Humboldt Bay, the Asmat (New Guinea), and the Dayak (Borneo). Later in life, having returned to the Netherlands, he continued to hunt out items of ethnographic interest - at auctions, but also by means of his excellent connections in missionary circles and with former colonials. At the same time he explored colonial and missionary archives in order to contextualize and document the objects he found.
sold EUR 2,600
Lot 43 : Figural charm
Westneuguinea / Westpapua (Irian Jaya) - Cenderawasih-Bay
sold EUR 800
Lot 44 : Ancestor board "gope" or "kaiaimunu"
Papua New Guinea - Golf - Goaribari Island, Kerewa
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 45 : Ancestor figure "bioma"
Papua New Guinea - Gulf
Todd Barlin, Paddington, Australia
sold EUR 2,000
Lot 46 : Stonehead club
Papua New Guinea - Highlands, Morobe province, Kukukuku
Herzum, Bad Homburg, Germany
sold EUR 500
Lot 47 : Breast ornament
Papua New Guinea - Huon Gulf
not available anymore
Lot 48 : Spear thrower "wawi a kaino"
Papua New Guinea, Iatmul
Marc Lissauer, Australia Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 1,300
Lot 49 : Male "mai" mask
Papua New Guinea, Iatmul
Conelis Pieter Meulendijk, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (1912-1979) Christie's, London, The Meulendijk Collection of Tribal Art, Part I, 21 October 1980, lot 301
sold EUR 3,000
Lot 50 : Splashboard of a canoe "lagim"
Papua New Guinea, Trobriand islands, Massim
Ulrich Kortmann, Dortmund, Germany Southern German Collection
sold EUR 250
Lot 51 : Ceremonial board "yamate"
Papua New Guinea, Mimika (Kamoro people)
Lemaire, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (ca. 1985)
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 52 : Figure of an ancestor spirit
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
not available anymore