November 11, 2017

87th Tribal Art Auction

Non-European art from international private collections: Gabun masks and memorabilia from the Albert Schweitzer collection coming from the Emmy Martin estate. The second part of the Heinz Kolerski collection (1936-2012). Small figures and fetishes from the african collection of the german artist Günther Filla (1952-2015). Heddle pulleys coming from the collection Mona Etienne (ethnologist in the 1960s/70s). Fine old tribal art from Africa, Asia, Oceania and North America.

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Highlights

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Lot 7: Male ancestor figure "adu zatua", around 1900
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Lot 18: Shield
1/7
Lot 25: Suspension hook
1/4
Lot 40: Club "patu"
1/5
Lot 46: Mask
1/7
Lot 47: Small head sculpture, ~ 200 - 800 AD
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Lot 48: Winged object, ~ 200 - 500 AD
1/5
Lot 50: Idol, 18th century or earlier
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Lot 52: Gut scraper, ~ 500 - 900 AD
1/6
Lot 105: Standing figure "mvunzi"
1/6
Lot 127: Plank mask "nwantantay"
1/6
Lot 139: Beautiful figure "blolo bla"
1/7
Lot 148: Figurally carved staff
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Lot 154: Speaker's staff "okyeame poma"
1/5
Lot 205: Standing figure
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Lot 212: Mask "ntomo"
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Lot 220: Heddle pulley with anthropomorphic head
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Lot 226: Heddle pulley with anthropomorphic buffalo head
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Lot 232: Rare elephant mask "sama", before 1914
1/5
Lot 236: Female maks "kpan"
1/7
Lot 239: Standing female figure "blolo bla"
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Lot 245: Maternité of the "Agba workshop", around 1920
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Lot 246: Anthropomorphic bowl-bearing monkey figure "amuin" or "amuin ba"
1/6
Lot 253: Anthropomorphic face mask "tankagle"
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Lot 258: Beautiful female mask "gu", before 1910
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Lot 264: Fragment of a male figure
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Lot 285: Impressive "bochio kpodohonme"
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Lot 336: Rare form of a beaded dance crest
1/6
Lot 342: Portrait bust of Albert Schweitzer, after 1951
1/7
Lot 345: Female face mask "okuyi"
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Lot 346: Anthropomorphic face mask "okuyi"
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Lot 349: Anthropomorphic face mask
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Lot 369: Power figure "nkisi"
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Lot 370: Power figure "nkisi nduda"
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Lot 383: Fly whisk handle ?
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Lot 400: Cup in shape of a standing male figure
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Lot 415: Anthropomorphic figure "iginga"
1/4
Lot 416: Janus figure "katanda"
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Lot 432: Staff of office "kibango"
1/4
Lot 433: Mask
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Lot 460: Janus power figure "nkisi"
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Lot 461: Small power half figure "nkisi"
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Lot 476: Standing male power figure "biteki"
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Lot 485: Maternité "phemba"

87th Tribal Art Auction

Lot 1 : Measuring stick "tun-tun"
Indonesia - Borneo, Dayak
August Flick, Cologne, Germany Philipp Konzett, Graz, Austria Helmut Feier, Vienna, Austria
not available anymore
Lot 2 : Measuring stick "tun-tun"
Indonesia - Borneo, Dayak
August Flick, Cologne, Germany Philipp Konzett, Graz, Austria Helmut Feier, Vienna, Austria
sold EUR 1,800
Lot 3 : Measuring stick "tun-tun"
Indonesia - Borneo, Dayak
August Flick, Cologne, Germany Philipp Konzett, Graz, Austria Helmut Feier, Vienna, Austria
not available anymore
Lot 4 : Measuring stick "tun-tun"
Indonesia - Borneo, Dayak
August Flick, Cologne, Germany Philipp Konzett, Graz, Austria Helmut Feier, Vienna, Austria
not available anymore
Lot 5 : Amulet figure
Indonesia - Borneo, Dayak
Ralf Lüders, Stuttgart, Germany Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 19 September 2009, lot 6
sold EUR 320
Lot 7 : Male ancestor figure "adu zatua", around 1900
Indonesia - Nias
German Missionary Collection
sold EUR 1,800
Lot 8 : Sword with sheath
Indonesia - Sumatra, Toba - Batak
not available anymore
Lot 9 : Group of forty arrows, before 1914
Oceania
Heinrich Füllbeck, Munich, Germany
sold EUR 200
Lot 10 : Yam mask
Papua New Guinea, Abelam
Greg Hamson, Palos Verdes, California, USA (field collected in the early 2000s in the Southern Abelam area near Ugutagwa village) Michael Hamson, Palos Verdes, California, USA
sold EUR 2,500
Lot 11 : Yam mask
Papua New Guinea, Abelam
Greg Hamson, Palos Verdes, California, USA (field collected in the early 2000s in the Southern Abelam area near Ugutagwa village) Michael Hamson, Palos Verdes, California, USA
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 12 : Canoe prow "tsji tsjemen"
Westneuguinea / Westpapua (Irian Jaya), Asmat
Jan Lundberg, Malmö, Sweden
not available anymore
Lot 13 : Ancestor skull "ndambirkus"
Westneuguinea / Westpapua (Irian Jaya), Asmat
collected in situ, Asmat village Ocenep (1976)
sold EUR 3,000
Lot 14 : Headhunting trophy "wakune"
Westneuguinea / Westpapua (Irian Jaya), Asmat
collected in situ (early 1980s)
not available anymore
Lot 15 : Replacement skull "kus"
Westneuguinea / Westpapua (Irian Jaya), Asmat
not available anymore
Lot 16 : Group of four spears, before 1914
Papua New Guinea - Astrolabe Bay
Heinrich Füllbeck, Munich, Germany
sold EUR 400
Lot 17 : Shield
Westneuguinea / Westpapua (Irian Jaya) - Cenderawasih-Bay
Albrecht Nicolaas Baron de Vos van Steenwijk, Arnhem/Ede, The Netherlands The de Vos van Steenwijks are an old Dutch noble family from the Dutch province of Overijssel. A. N. Baron de Vos van Steenwijk (1912-1996) was active in the service of the Royal Navy in the Dutch East Indies region, the forerunner of today's Republic of Indonesia. From 1960 to 1964 he held the rank of a Vice-Admiral.
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 18 : Shield
Westneuguinea / Westpapua (Irian Jaya) - Cenderawasih-Bay
Dutch Private Collection (collected before the 1940s) Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 28 June 2014, lot 41 Alex Arthur, Brussels, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 19 : Food bowl, before 1914
Papua New Guinea - Huon Gulf, Tami Islands
Heinrich Füllbeck, Munich, Germany
sold EUR 250
Lot 20 : Head sculpture
Papua New Guinea, Iatmul
Hellebrandt, Portland/Maine, USA (collected in 1950)
not available anymore
Lot 21 : Standing anthropomorphic figure, around 1920/30
Papua New Guinea, Trobriand Islands, Milne Bay, Massim
Craig de Lora, New Jersey, USA Michael Auliso, San Francisco, USA German Private Collection, Munich
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 22 : Ceremonial axe
Papua New Guinea - Mount Hagen
sold EUR 400
Lot 23 : Mask of spirits "brag"
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
collected in situ (1963) Mark Eglinton, New York, USA
not available anymore
Lot 24 : Beautiful old mask
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
Ralf Lüders, Stuttgart, Germany Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 27 February 2016, lot 55
sold EUR 2,000
Lot 25 : Suspension hook
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
Jan Visser, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
not available anymore
Lot 26 : War shield
Papua New Guinea - Sepik, May River/ Iwam
Bloom, Cambridge/Boston, USA (1950s)
not available anymore
Lot 27 : Standing female ancestor figure
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
not available anymore
Lot 28 : Standing female ancestor figure
Papua New Guinea - Sepik - Yuat River
Ulrich Kortmann, Dortmund, Germany
sold EUR 500
Lot 29 : Kneeling male figure
Papua New Guinea - Sepik - Ramu River
sold EUR 700
Lot 30 : Small betel nut mortar
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
not available anymore
Lot 31 : Headboard bed panel
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - Admirality Islands, Manus
Alan Dunfee, Cumming, USA Michael Auliso, San Francisco, USA
not available anymore
Lot 32 : Ceremonial bowl
Solomon Islands
Elisabeth Verhey, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Loed van Bussel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
not available anymore
Lot 33 : Club, before 1914
Solomon Islands
Heinrich Füllbeck, Munich, Germany
sold EUR 100
Lot 34 : Figurally carved dignitary staff
Solomon Islands, New Georgia Island
John Giltsoff, Girona, Spain Kevin Conru, London, Great Britain
not available anymore
Lot 35 : Dignitary staff
Solomon Islands - Bougainville Island
Jean-Pierre Laprugne, Paris, France Emmanuel Pierrat, Paris, France
not available anymore
Lot 36 : Group of four spears, before 1914
Solomon Islands - Buka Island
Heinrich Füllbeck, Munich, Germany
sold EUR 200
Lot 37 : Bailer
French Polynesia, Vahitahi (Vaitake)
Missionsmuseum St. Augustin, Bonn, Germany
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 38 : Throwing club "i ula drisia"
Fidji Islands
Dunbar Sloane, New Zealand Mark Eglinton, New York, USA
not available anymore
Lot 39 : Throwing club "i ula drisia"
Fidji Islands
Dunbar Sloane, New Zealand Mark Eglinton, New York, USA
not available anymore
Lot 40 : Club "patu"
New Zealand, Maori
Austrian Private Collection Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 25 May 2013, lot 45 Belgian Collection
not available anymore
Lot 41 : Parrying shield
Australia
Hans Petereit, Cologne, Germany
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 42 : Parrying shield
Australia
Hans Petereit, Cologne, Germany
sold EUR 600
Lot 43 : Three spearthrowers, before 1914
Australia
Heinrich Füllbeck, Munich, Germany
sold EUR 150
Lot 44 : Messenger stick, before 1931
Australia, Northern Territory
Old British Collection
not available anymore
Lot 45 : Rare club
Australia, Victoria
Old British Collection
not available anymore
Lot 46 : Mask
Northern Alaska, Yup'ik or Inupiaq
Parke-Bernet, New York, 1965, lot 49
not available anymore
Lot 47 : Small head sculpture, ~ 200 - 800 AD
Alaska, Old Bering Sea Culture/Punuk
Alaska on Madison, New York, USA
not available anymore
Lot 48 : Winged object, ~ 200 - 500 AD
Alaska, Old Bering Sea II Culture
Alaska on Madison, New York, USA
not available anymore
Lot 49 : Three miniature combs, ~ 1200 - 1600 AD
Alaska, Thule Culture
Alaska on Madison, New York, USA
not available anymore
Lot 50 : Idol, 18th century or earlier
Alaska, Thule Culture
Alaska on Madison, New York, USA
not available anymore
Lot 51 : Figurative amulet
Alaska, Thule Culture
not available anymore