July 7, 2018

89th Tribal Art Auction

The collection of the Wuppertal artist Gerd Hanebeck with objects from the Han Coray collection. African art works from European collections, including an important group of historical Mumuye figures and special works of art from Nigeria. Selected objects from Papua New Guinea.

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Highlights

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Lot 17: Rare pectoral ornament
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Lot 31: Headrest, 19th century
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Lot 36: Suspension hook with male figure
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Lot 37: Frieze mask
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Lot 137: Helmet mask "zo gbe"
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Lot 149: Figural group with sacrificial bowl, 19th/beginning of 20th century
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Lot 153: Antelope dance crest "tijwara"
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Lot 170: Large anthropomorphic mask
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Lot 180: Standing female figure
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Lot 199: Pair of figures "lü me"
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Lot 200: Anthropomorphic face mask "tankagle"
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Lot 210: Rare old "zauli" mask
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Lot 215: Equestrian figure
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Lot 217: Rare zoomorphic mask
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Lot 249: Headdress with figural superstructure
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Lot 258: Rare panel of the "ekpo" society
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Lot 259: Circular face mask for the "ekpo" society
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Lot 260: Circular face mask for the "ekpo" society
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Lot 268: Rare dance crest of fancy design
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Lot 277: Two rare masks "okpu isi amavulu"
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Lot 278: Janus-faced helmet mask
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Lot 289: Water spirit mask
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Lot 296: Anthropomorphic figure "iagalagana", before 1969
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Lot 297: Standing ancestor figure "iagalagana", before 1969
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Lot 298: Female ancestor figure "iagalagana", before 1969
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Lot 299: Standing ancestor figure "iagalagana", before 1969
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Lot 300: Female ancestor figure "iagalagana", before 1969
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Lot 301: Female ancestor figure "iagalagana", before 1969
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Lot 312: Rare janus staff "edan oshugbo"
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Lot 326: Large prestige stool with leopard
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Lot 332: Exceptionally beautiful and rare female ancestor figure
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Lot 333: Reliquiary figure "mbulu-ngulu"
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Lot 334: Reliquary guardian figure "mbulu-ngulu" ("spirit of a deceased")
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Lot 335: Mask-like head sculpture
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Lot 336: Helmet mask "emboli" or "mbuto"
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Lot 374: Male ancestor figure "singiti"
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Lot 394: Head scultpure
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Lot 402: Spoon
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Lot 410: Staff of office "kibango"
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Lot 419: Anthropomorphic male ancestor figure "beli"
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Lot 445: Rare board mask
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Lot 466: Standing male figure "tege"
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Lot 475: Mask "ndeemba"
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Lot 497: Rare figure

89th Tribal Art Auction

Lot 1 : Anthropomorphic spoon
Philippines - Ifugao
sold EUR 450
Lot 2 : Pair of ritual deities "bulul" of the master carver Tagiling
Philippines - Luzon
Wil Farrow Collection
not available anymore
Lot 3 : Lance and two spears
Philippines - Luzon
Katharina Penner, Wuppertal, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 4 : Anthropomorphic tone-lid of an urne
Philippines - Mindanao
Francois Rabier, Brussels, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 5 : Mask
Indonesia - Borneo, Dayak
sold EUR 700
Lot 6 : Sword "mandau"
Indonesia - Borneo, Dayak
Luc Sanders, Dendermonde, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 7 : Pair of dragons from longhouse roof terminal
Indonesia - Borneo, Dayak
Alex Arthur, Brussels, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 8 : Pair of ancestor figures "debata idup"
Indonesia - Sumatra, Toba - Batak
Italiaander Galleries, Amsterdam, The Netherlands M. Schüssler, Hamburg, Germany (acquired between 1980 and 1990)
sold EUR 800
Lot 9 : Standing figure
Nepal
Yves Créhalet, Paris, France
not available anymore
Lot 10 : Anthropomorphic mask with oversized nose
Nepal
not available anymore
Lot 11 : Small shield with coin applications
Pakistan
Patrick Mestdagh, Brussels, Belgium
sold EUR 800
Lot 12 : Hand mask of a demon
Bhutan/Tibet
Gerard Wahl Boyer, Paris, France
sold EUR 400
Lot 14 : Sword guard "tsuba"
Japan
not available anymore
Lot 15 : Pair of protective figures "kundik"
Afghanistan, Nuristan, Kafir
Voigt, Münster, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 16 : War mask
Iran / Persia
Pierre Richard Royer, Paris, France
sold EUR 3,200
Lot 17 : Rare pectoral ornament
Papua New Guinea, North Coast, Aitape Region, Wawapu
Plantikow, Osterholz-Scharmbeck, Germany
sold EUR 500
Lot 18 : Three spears
Papua New Guinea - Admirality Islands - Highlands
Plantikow, Osterholz-Scharmbeck, Germany
sold EUR 200
Lot 19 : Standing male ancestral spirit figure
Papua New Guinea, Abelam
Jan Vlug, Deventer, The Netherlands
sold EUR 2,600
Lot 20 : Replacement skull "kus"
Westneuguinea / Westpapua (Irian Jaya), Asmat
German Private Collection
Price EUR 600
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 21 : Abstract figure with bird head
Westneuguinea / Westpapua (Irian Jaya), Asmat
collected in the 1950s
not available anymore
Lot 22 : Breast ornament, dog tooth necklace and string bag
Papua New Guinea
Plantikow, Osterholz-Scharmbeck, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 23 : Bullroarer "kaiavuru" oder "hevehe"
Papua New Guinea - Gulf
sold EUR 450
Lot 24 : Dance crest
Papua New Guinea - Gulf
Katharina Penner, Wuppertal, Germany
sold EUR 300
Lot 25 : Three spherical ritual stones and stone mortar
Papua New Guinea - Highlands
sold EUR 800
Lot 26 : Ritual stone and stone mortar
Papua New Guinea - Highlands
not available anymore
Lot 27 : Four sacred stones
Papua New Guinea - Highlands
sold EUR 600
Lot 28 : Stone club head
Papua New Guinea - Highlands
sold EUR 350
Lot 29 : War club with disc-shaped stone head
Papua New Guinea - Highlands
not available anymore
Lot 30 : Headrest
Papua New Guinea - Humboldt Bay
Dutch Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 31 : Headrest, 19th century
Papua New Guinea - Huon Gulf, Morobe Province, Tami Islands
Christian Gottlob Keyser, Geroldsgrün/Neuendettelsau, Germany
sold EUR 4,000
Lot 32 : Cult hook figure "aripa"
Papua New Guinea - Korewori
Loed van Bussel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
not available anymore
Lot 33 : Three spoons "ompi"
Papua New Guinea - Markham Valley, Morobe province
not available anymore
Lot 34 : Two hatchets
Papua New Guinea - Trobriand Islands, Massim
not available anymore
Lot 35 : Figurally carved stick
Papua New Guinea - Trobriand Islands, Massim
British Collection
not available anymore
Lot 36 : Suspension hook with male figure
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
Jan Lundberg, Malmö, Sweden
sold EUR 8,000
Lot 37 : Frieze mask
Papua New Guinea - West Sepik, Aitape
Franz Xaver Lehner, Munich, Germany (before 1925) Heinrich "Heinz" Josef Bründl, Munich, Germany Michael Evans, Dijon, France Lehner (1887-1963) was a photographer and early member of the "Cowboy Club Munich", founded in 1913. He was a collector of ethnographics from North American, Africa and Papua New Guinea. Bründl (born 1948) became a member of the "Cowboy Club Munich" at the age of twenty which aroused his interest in foreign cultures. He became a renowned collector mainly of cultural objects from the North American Indians.
sold EUR 4,000
Lot 38 : Miniature mask of an ancestral spirit
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
German Private Collection
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 39 : Miniature mask
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
German Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 40 : Standing female figure
Papua New Guinea - Lake Sentani
Johann F. Gustav Umlauff, Hamburg, Germany Ketterer, Munich, 18 November 1978, lot 293 (offered as couple together with male counterpart) Heinz Mars, Würzburg, Germany
sold EUR 3,000
Lot 41 : Neckrest with classical ancestral representations
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
Australian Private Collection
sold EUR 600
Lot 42 : Three ornaments for sacred flutes
Papua New Guinea - Lower Sepik, Kopar people
sold EUR 700
Lot 43 : War shield
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipel - New Britain - Arawe
Holger Braun, Aschaffenburg, Germany
sold EUR 700
Lot 44 : Club
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Britain - Gazelle Peninsula, Sulka/Nakanai
sold EUR 1,800
Lot 45 : Rare spear
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Britain - Tolai
Heinrich Füllbeck, Munich, Germany
sold EUR 850
Lot 46 : Three old ceremonial spears
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - St Matthias Islands
Katharina Penner, Wuppertal, Germany
sold EUR 300
Lot 47 : One bow and five arrows
Solomon Islands - Buka Island
Augustin Krämer, Stuttgart, Germany Julius Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany
sold EUR 450
Lot 48 : Club "afui" or "alafolo"
Solomon Islands - Malaita
Douglas Barrett, London, Great Britain
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 49 : Comb "faa"
Solomon Islands - Malaita
German Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 50 : Club "gugu"
Fidji Islands
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 51 : Fifteen fish hooks
Hawaii, Sandwich Islands
Léo Fortess, Honolulu, USA
not available anymore