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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Fine Art + Important Indigenous Art
• Sale Date:
  29 Nov 2017 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  143
• Lot Description:
  A Canoe Prow Figurehead
  Nguzunguzu, Solomon Islands
  natural pigments, clay and trade paint on carved wood with shell inlay
  20.0 x 17.0 cm
  in form of a zoomorphic head with an elongated snout and the eyes inset with nacre, crowned by hat-like headgear, the hands resting underneath the chin; bears inscription on base: Nangatana, Nggela Is, ASIP 7/35
• Provenance:
  Taylor Dale, Santa Fé , New Mexico, USA; Arcade Arts Gallery, London; Zemanek-Münster,Würzburg, Germany, 24 November 2007, lot 33; Private collection, New South Wales
• References:
  Newton, D., Arts of the South Seas: The Collection of the Musée Barbier-Mueller, München, London, New York, 1999, p. 280; Wardwell, A., Island Ancestors: Oceanic Art from the Masco Collection, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1994, p. 132
• Estimate:
  A$10,000 - 15,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Tribal

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