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• Auction House:
  Theodore Bruce
• Sale Name:
  The Todd Barlin Collection of Fine Oceanic & Asian Arts
• Sale Date:
  08 May 2016 ~ 12noon
• Lot #:
  218
• Lot Description:
  Four Old Coconut Spoons, Papuan Gulf; together with an old Sepik River Betel Mortar, [5]
  8 cm to 15 cm
• Provenance:
  The Coconut Spoon finely carved with an abstract Spirit or Ancestor Figure and traces of lime decoration. This Spoon was originally from the Toast and Rohu Collection. From 1872 to the 1930's, Jane Tost and her daughter Ada (married to Naturalist and artefact collector Henry Rohu), founded Tost & Rohu, a Fancy Work Depot & Taxidermy Studio. During the late nineteenth century the company focused on selling furs and ethnographic material in Sydney. From the 1890's the company claimed to stock the
• Estimate:
  A$500 - 600
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Tribal

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