Oceanian art

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  Marquesas Islands:  Club "u'u"

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  Provenance

  Johann F. Gustav Umlauff, Hamburg, Germany · Ernst von Sieglin (1848-1927), Stuttgart, Germany · Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, Germany (1905) · Ludwig Bretschneider, Munich, Germany (1969) · Munich Private Collection

  Sold EUR 100,000
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  Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Ireland:  Magnificent "malagan" figure

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  Provenance

  Ludwig Bretschneider, Munich, Germany · Munich Private Collection

  Sold EUR 170,000
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  Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Ireland:  Malagan mask "tatanua"

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  Provenance

  Klaus Clausmeyer, Düsseldorf, Germany · Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, African & Oceanic Art, November 9, 1979, lot 136 · Richard Rüegg, Zurich, Switzerland

  Sold EUR 36,000
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  Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - Admirality Islands:  War charm, around 1880

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  Provenance

  Lance Entwistle, Paris, France · Edith Hafter, Solothurn, Switzerland

  Sold EUR 36,000
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  Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Ireland:  Kneeling female figure "malagan"

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  Provenance

  Ludwig Bretschneider, Munich, Germany · Munich Private Collection

  Sold EUR 80,000
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  Vanuatu, South Malakula, Letemboi/Small Nambas:  Ancestor effigy "rambaramp"

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  Provenance

  Elisabeth Grünwald, Grenoble, France (1972)

  Sold EUR 15,000

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