Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![133 134 138 supported in the middle on a bowl shrine encrusted with shells, 94 in. diam. A fine New Guinea stone-headed Adze, bound with basket work ; and a carved Rarotonga iron wood } vational God, nis pheee on a shaft, 40 in., rare i) PEO 3 NEW ZEALAND. A good old bone Mere of plain spatula me and two others in wood, both of unusual shape 2. {4 | 3 Two good Chieftain’s Ceremonial Walking Sticks, both finely carved, one with a human figure and another with a head, enriched with haliotis shells, 38 in. 25 j 7 COMMLL 2 A good stone Mere of plain spatula shape, in fine state, 124 in.; and another, in wood, with curved blade carved with geometric and scroll ornament, an unusually large specimen in good state, 194 1. 2 form, carved with masks and totemic designs, the top sur- haliotis, 37 an. by 28 wn. A very fine Mere or Sacrificial Knife, in carved wood, decorated with deeply carved masks, scrolls and dentate ornament, in- laid with haliotis shell, an unusually rare and fine specimen in good state, 174 um. by 61M. a An Indian stone Frieze, carved in Gandhara style, with a row of figures entwined with a python-like monster, 26 in. long j Fy j i y , 1]. ] r4 2 peat fH CA et — fe](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31644107_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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