Sales catalogue: Christies

Date:
14th July 1924
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/4/160
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Christies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a7 577 Two others, same provenance, complete with hafts ; one with basketwork ornament : 9 578 A series of six stone-headed clubs, from New Guinea 6 579 Six others, similar in character to the foregoing 6 580 Five ornamental objects, constructed out of fruits and shells ; also a carved wood totem, wearing a string of faceted -cornelian beads. All from Oceania 6 1) Six objects, from New Guinea and New Zealand, including two large fish-hooks (? Maori) ; a long bottle, made from the fruit of the lime, with burnt design; a carved wood ladle; a rounded stone implement, pointed at each end ; and a cane instrument, looped at the end, and wound round with a striped fabric 6 f 58a A carved wood dancing-shield, from New Guinea—about , 2 ft. long; and a tripod wooden food-dish—16} a. long —from the Solomon Islands 2 =~ 583 Five wooden spatule for lime, with decorated handles, used = | in chewing betel-nut, from New Guinea Archipelago ; and thirteen miscellaneous bone and wood weapons and ornaments, from Oceania 1S ) Three workmen’s stone adzes, from ae Cee nes in ~~ their original wood hafts VA ba bach Vivid Lire Cs sf SERA aia ae if 685 Two Ricunuy CarveD ee onan iene from Hervey if Islands 2 586 Two Oruers, also richly carved and same provenance 2 587 Two OrHErs, finer than either of the foregoing, same provenance 2 588 Two carved wood ceremonial spears, from 8.H. New Guinea ie 2 undle of spears, chiefly from New Guinea and Solomon tslands v0 P, OF] Another lot, similar to the foregoing UD 4 OL oRSAnother lot, similar to lot 589 : a Se nother lot, similar to lot 589 “Three sheafs of arrows, in their original quivers, from Oceania 3
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