May 28, 2016

83rd Tribal Art Auction

Fine old tribal art from Africa, Asia, Australia, Oceania and America. The Nias collection of Dr. Heinrich Sundermann (1849-1919). Anton Handl in Cameroon. Significant works of art from the Cameroon Grassfields.

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Highlights

1/5
Lot 7: Male ancestor figure "siraha salawa", around 1900
1/4
Lot 9: Female ancestor figure "adu zatua"
1/4
Lot 38: Guardian statue "pagar"
1/3
Lot 82: Figural suspension hook, before 1934
1/3
Lot 99: Figure of a deity
1/5
Lot 131: Female figure
1/4
Lot 132: Standing female figure
1/4
Lot 143: Zoomorphic helmet mask
1/4
Lot 165: Portrait mask "ndoma" of the "mblo" group
1/5
Lot 166: Portrait mask "ndoma" of the "mblo" group
1/4
Lot 200: Standing male figure
1/7
Lot 268: Maiden spirit face mask "agbogho mmwo"
1/4
Lot 336: Beautiful old mask of leader "kam"
1/9
Lot 344: Royal memorial figure "lefem"
1/9
Lot 345: Royal memorial figure "lefem"
1/5
Lot 348: Anthropomorphic face mask
1/5
Lot 349: Rare figural object of highly abstract form
1/4
Lot 354: Reliquary guardian figure "mbulu-ngulu" ("spirit of a deceased")
1/3
Lot 392: Standing male ancestor figure "singiti"
1/5
Lot 396: Small standing figure
1/6
Lot 421: Large round mask "kifwebe"
1/6
Lot 422: Anthropo/zoomorphic mask
1/7
Lot 423: Caryatid stool "kihona"
1/4
Lot 425: Neckrest "musamo"
1/6
Lot 461: Power figure "nkisi" against small pox
1/5
Lot 512: Pair of figures

83rd Tribal Art Auction

Lot 51 : Anthropomorphic mask
West Nepal, Magar
Old American Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 52 : Mask
Nepal, Magar
François Pannier, Paris, France · French Private Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 53 : Anthropomorphic mask
West Nepal, Magar
Not available anymore
Lot 54 : Mask
Nepal, Magar
François Pannier, Paris, France · French Private Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 55 : Monkey mask
India - Himachal Pradesh
François Pannier, Paris, France · French Private Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 56 : Squatting figure
India, Naga
Not available anymore
Lot 57 : Ceremonial knife "dao"
India, Naga
Not available anymore
Lot 58 : Warrior's ceremonial headdress
India, Naga
Sold EUR 200
Lot 59 : Warrior's ceremonial headdress
India, Naga
Sold EUR 600
Lot 60 : Men's ceremonial waist cloth "nyskkom"
India, Naga
Not available anymore
Lot 61 : Woman's loin cloth
India, Naga
Sold EUR 300
Lot 62 : Torque of a warrior
India, Naga
Not available anymore
Lot 63 : Lute "samisen"
Japan
Anton Handl, Munich, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 64 : Anthropomorphic mask
Tibet
Ralf Lüders, Stuttgart, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 65 : Drum
Tibet
Ralf Lüders, Stuttgart, Germany
Sold EUR 160
Lot 66 : Group of six weapons
Papua New Guinea
Southern German Collection
Sold EUR 250
Lot 67 : Three clubs
Papua New Guinea
Not available anymore
Lot 68 : Club
Papua New Guinea
Not available anymore
Lot 69 : War shield
Papua New Guinea, Madang province, Wanuma area
Not available anymore
Lot 70 : Spirit board "gope"
Papua New Guinea, Uruma island
Sold EUR 1,200
Lot 71 : Male ritual figure
Papua New Guinea, South Abelam / Wosera
Ulrich Kortmann, Dortmund, Germany · German Private Collection, Hesse
Not available anymore
Lot 72 : Yams head
Papua New Guinea, Abelam/Wosera
Gallery Flak, Paris, France
Sold EUR 950
Lot 73 : Portrait of a spirits head
Papua New Guinea, Abelam
acquired in Sydney, Australia (1961/62)
Sold EUR 150
Lot 74 : Ancestor figure "kawe"
Westneuguinea / Westpapua (Irian Jaya), Asmat
collected in situ (1976)
Sold EUR 500
Lot 75 : Standing male ancestor figure "kawe"
Westneuguinea / Westpapua (Irian Jaya), Asmat
Dutch Collection (1995)
Not available anymore
Lot 76 : Ceremonial shield
Westneuguinea / Westpapua (Irian Jaya), Asmat
Barbara Schuster, Neuendettelsau, Germany
Sold EUR 500
Lot 77 : Round food bowl
Papua New Guinea - Boiken
Sold EUR 400
Lot 78 : Oval food bowl
Papua New Guinea - Boiken
Not available anymore
Lot 79 : Spirit board "gope"
Papua New Guinea - Golf, Purari Delta
Stanley Gordon Moriarty (1906-1978), Australia
Sold EUR 2,400
Lot 80 : War shield
Papua New Guinea - eastern Highlands
Not available anymore
Lot 81 : Betel nut mortar
Papua New Guinea - Huon Gulf, Tami Islands
Old German Colonial Collection
Sold EUR 900
Lot 82 : Figural suspension hook, before 1934
Papua New Guinea, Iatmul
Johann Beck, Bremen, Germany (coll in situ between 1928 - 1934, when he worked as a captain for the shipping company Norddeutsche Lloyd Bremen) · Klaus-Jochen Krüger, Hamburg, Germany · Thomas Schulze, Berlin, Germany
Sold EUR 9,500
Lot 83 : Small sculpture "yipwon"
Papua New Guinea - Korewori
Sold EUR 800
Lot 84 : Small sculpture "korvar"
Westneuguinea / Westpapua (Irian Jaya)
Dutch Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 85 : Lime spatula
Papua-Neuguinea - Massim-Gebiet
American Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 86 : Rare figure of a composite being, late 19th century, collected prior to 1920
Papua-Neuguinea - Massim-Gebiet
part of a collection of artifacts donated to Nevada City, California courthouse in the 1920’s by a local family. In 1962 the local high school principal puchased the collection because of his ties to New Guinea, where he served in WW II as a fighter pilot. · Michael Hamson, Palos Verdes, California, USA · Yves Créhalet, Paris, France · Rive Gauche, Paris, 18 November 2013, lot 30
Not available anymore
Lot 87 : Ancestor spirit mask "brag"
Papua New Guinea - Murik
Afrika-Museum Bergen-Sülze, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 88 : Standing female figure
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
Kevin Conru, London, Great Britain (“acquired in a small auction in England, prior to which it had laid undisturbed in a trunk for over a hundred years”)
Sold EUR 7,000
Lot 89 : Mask
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
Félix Pelt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Not available anymore
Lot 90 : Betel nut mortar
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
Not available anymore
Lot 91 : Hook "garra"
Papua New Guinea - Middle Sepik - Hunstein Mountains, Bahinemo
Sold EUR 750
Lot 92 : Large food bowl
Papua New Guinea - Tami Islands
Sold EUR 600
Lot 93 : Food bowl
Papua New Guinea - Tami Islands
Not available anymore
Lot 94 : Ceremonial spear
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago, St Matthias islands
Not available anymore
Lot 95 : Ceremonial spear
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago, St Matthias Islands
Not available anymore
Lot 96 : Two clubs
Solomon Islands
Sold EUR 200
Lot 97 : Spear
Solomon Islands - Bougainville Island
Not available anymore
Lot 98 : Bark cloth "tapa"
Samoa/Tonga/Fiji
Sold EUR 300
Lot 99 : Figure of a deity
Tonga
Margherita Mona Comotto-Staley, Portsmouth, Great Britain · Andrew Staley, Nottingham, Great Britain
Sold EUR 7,000
Lot 100 : Club
Australia
Not available anymore