Online catalogue for the 50th tribal art auction

21 Hand-drum

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Papua New Guinea

wood, dull dark brown patina, kaolin, red paint, in the shape of an hour-glass, bow-shaped handle, corresponding projection in openwork design on the opposite side, showing birds heads and half circles, notched ornaments, accentuated by kaolin and red paint, arranged in four horizontal bands, continued on the drums corpus, abrasion, drum skin and rotan ring missing; rare !

H: 86,5 cm
H: 34.1 inch

Provenance
Missionary Coll., Neuendettelsau, Germany

Literature
Art Papou, Austronésiens et Papous de Nouvelle-Guinée, Ausst.kat. Musée d´Arts Africains, Océaniens, Améridiens Marseille 2000, ill. 168, p. 184

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22 Club

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Papua New Guinea

wood, dark brown shiny patina, straight form, broadening pointed ending, upper and lower part carved ornamentally, min. dam., small fissures

L: 70 cm
L: 27.6 inch

Provenance
Manfred Zirngibl, Passau, Germany

Price: 60 - 90 €

23 Spoon

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Papua New Guinea

coconut, oval hollowed spoon, made of coconut, polished, dyed dark brown, handle in the shape of a human head, slightly damaged at the rim

L: 12 cm
L: 4.7 inch

Provenance
Missionary Coll., Neuendettelsau, Germany

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24 Breast ornament

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Papua New Guinea

nine boar tusks, combined by cord material, one on top of the other, so that the tusks are overlapping, set with kuskus pelt in the middle

H: 29 cm
H: 11.4 inch

Provenance
Missionary Coll., Neuendettelsau, Germany

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25 Penis cover

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Papua New Guinea

pumpkin, completely decorated with square ornaments, min. dam., slight signs of abrasion, fissures

L: 35 cm
L: 13.8 inch

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26 Headdress

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Papua New Guinea

made from cassowary feathers hold together by a plaited cord, min. dam.; these headdress was worn by men at dance festivities.

L: 31 cm
L: 12.2 inch

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27 Two stone club heads and a magical stone

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Papua New Guinea

three pieces, big club head, of heavy, blackened stone, bulbous form, with notched pattern, D: 13 cm, H: 7,5 cm; small club head of a greyish-brown stone, cicular with radial incised lines; magical stone, blackened, bowl-shaped, incised lines with notched ornaments

Provenance
Missionary Coll., Neuendettelsau, Germany

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28 Ornament and currency ring "yua"

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Papua New Guinea, Abelam

tridacna shell, ring-shaped, six notches, on metal base; such rings were used as primitive money but men used to wear them during ritual dances as well. Sometimes they were even given to young girls who were about to marry. They fixed the rings to special bags used to be worn with a headband, and thus made them an important part of their festive costume.

D: 19 cm; H: 17,5 cm
D: 7.5 inch; H: 6.9 inch

Literature
Aumann, Georg, Kunst und Kunsthandwerk aus Neu Guinea, Ausst.kat. Natur-Museum Coburg 1986, p. 146 f.

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29 Back ornament "kara-ut"

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Papua New Guinea, Abelam

in the shape of a stylized human figure, cotton weave corpus, which is spreaded with a thick layer of red and yellow ochre, the contours of face and body are formed by nassa snails, arms and head ornament of boar tusks, tassels of feathers attached; the "kara-ut" was an important war ornament in former times, it was held with the teeth and should demonstrate aggressiveness.

H: 31,5 cm
H: 12.4 inch

Provenance
Missionary Coll., Neuendettelsau, Germany

Literature
Heermann, Ingrid und Ulrich Menter, Schmuck der Südsee, Ornament und Symbol, Objekte aus dem Linden-Museum Stuttgart, München 1990, p. 141, ill. 26

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30 Bone daggers

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Papua New Guinea, Abelam

2 pieces, cassowary bone, honey and dark brown patina, split and sharpened, one of the daggers engraved with a richly ornamented, standing ancestor figure, the three-parted swivel head carved with birds heads; the smaller bone dagger showing an ancestors head and curvilinear ornaments, slightly dam. (swivel head of the bigger one); bone daggers were stuck into a plaited band on the upper arm, they were used as weapon for hunting and for fighting. Beside of this they had ceremonial function as well, above all those, which were made of human bones.

L: 33 und 38,5 cm
L: 33 und 15.2 inch

Provenance
Missionary Coll., Neuendettelsau, Germany

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