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• Auction House:
  Theodore Bruce
• Sale Name:
  Aboriginal | Oceanic Art | The Gallagher Collection
• Sale Date:
  02 Jun 2019 ~ 3pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  9225A
• Lot Description:
  An Carved Ancestral Head, Aitchen Island, North East Malekula, Vanuatu, Early 20th Century
  carved wood, boar's tusk, pandanus, spider's web and beaded seeds, on custon stand, according to D. C. Wilkins, formerley of the British Colonial Service in Vanuatu (New Hebrides) based in Malekula this piece may have been the top of a house post or the head of an ancestor figure normally placed in the roof of the hut with the skulls over-modelled with mud and other effigies.
  H 47 cm
• Provenance:
  The Hugh Gallagher Collection; The Peter Elliot Collection, Mossgreen Auction of The Peter Elliot Collection, September 1, 2015, Lot 362; Collected in the field by Dr. Peter Elliot in the 1960's
• Exhibited:
  Oceanic and Indonesian Art, Oceanic Art Society, Nomadic Rug Traders, Sydney, 1998, cat. no. 77
• References:
  Oceanic and Indonesian Art, Oceanic Art Society, Craftsman House, Sydney, p. 77 (copy of this book with lot)
• Estimate:
  A$2,000 - 3,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Tribal

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