ETHNOGRAPHIC ART AND ARTEFACTS
Friday, 14 - Monday, 24 March 2025
A very good obsidian bladed spear, Bismarck Archipelago, Admiralty Islands, PNG. Late 19thC. Fine large flaked point fixed with parinarium nut paste and bound with fine cord mount with tri-colour ochre decoration and similar shoulder additionally with coix seeds, fitted to a slender tapering shaft. L.1610mm. Provenance: Mann Family Collection, Leipzig, Germany; Zemanek-Munster Wurzburg Auctions Sept 17, 2011; Tribal Art Kortmann 2012. The Jorgen Lotz Collection.
Estimate: $1,200 - $2,400
Four Neolithic flaked stone tools, three with location inscribed. 'Dchira, Mauritanien 300,000 AR' (Western Sahara); 'La Guerche' (Indre-et-Loire, France); 'El Mekta 6 (Settat, Morocco); the fourth unnamed but described on sale in 2013 as 'Upper Paleolithic Flint, Abbevillian bifacial, amigdala' from Saharan Sudan (El-Fasher)'. Longest 120mm. Provenance: The Jorgen Lotz Collection.
Estimate: $300 - $600
A good stone battle-axe hammer-head, probably Nordic Neolithic, pecked and polished finish, blunted tapering poll, cylindrical perforation, wedge shaped blade with small chips to edge. L.130mm. Along with a North American fluted paleo Clovis point, found Erie County, Ohio, L.95mm; and a Clovis (Alabama) Dalton point of cream/white chert, L.82mm. Provenance: The Jorgen Lotz Collection.
Estimate: $300 - $600
A Central Australian Aboriginal ceremonial scarification and circumcision stone knife with sheath
Estimate: $220 - $500
A large Aboriginal conglomerate stone fighting pick and three flaked stone hand axes
Estimate: $150 - $260
A PNG Highlands Wahgi Valley 'SP Beer' shield, decorated with 'South Pacific SP Lager Beer' details above a symbol flanked by axes. H.1450mm. W.295mm. Note: During the 1980's warfare re-asserted itself in the New Guinea Highlands, the first generation of educated warriors began to use 'new' motifs that often-used words. Designs incorporating Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola and SP Beer appeared. This shield with the SP Beer logo also incorporates two metal axes, part of the new armoury of new weapons in warfare. Soon after guns began to be used, and the wooden shields in the main Wahgi Valley all but ceased by about 2000. Provenance: Purchased from Chris Boylan Oceanic Art 2022 for $3,800. The Jorgen Lotz Collection.
Estimate: $1,800 - $3,000
Tene Waitere (Ngāti Tarawhai) Window Frame ex. Thompson Derby Ryan wharenui (Māori communal house)
Estimate: $3,000 - $6,000
A 20thC Māori carved rimu triangular column with three stylised standing tekoteko type figures
Estimate: $240 - $380
A late 19thC Māori carved tokotoko (walking stick) attributed to Jacob Heberley
Estimate: $1,200 - $2,000
A 19thC large format 19thC Burton Bros. albumen photographic print 'WHITE TERRACE'
Estimate: $300 - $600
