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• Auction House:
  Theodore Bruce
• Sale Name:
  The Todd Barlin Collection of Oceanic Art - Part III
• Sale Date:
  22 Sep 2019 ~ 4pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  220
• Lot Description:
  A Carved, Painted Eel Figure, Star Harbour Area, Markia Island, South East Solomon Islands, early 20th Century
  on custom stand
  L 59 cm
• Provenance:
  Collected by US Navy during WWII in the Solomon Islands, given to The Denver Fine Art Museum, deaccessioned
• Notes:
  Likely a totemic figure which was kept in a Sacred Canoe House, where they kept sacred Bonito canoes, offering & feast bowls, carvings of fish & birds also hung in the canoe house
• Estimate:
  A$400 - 600
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Tribal

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