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THB19th C. Maori Whalebone Club / Kotiate
Lot 77a
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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2019-10-03 10:00:00
2019-10-03 10:00:00
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Day 2 of an important 2-day auction featuring exceptional, museum-worthy examples of Pre-Columbian from the ancient Americas, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial and fossils. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
Day 2 of an important 2-day auction featuring exceptional, museum-worthy examples of Pre-Columbian from the ancient Americas, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial and fossils. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Oceania, New Zealand, Maori, ca. 19th century CE. A sizeable kotiate club, hand-carved from a single whalebone, with an abstract profile head on the butt end and a suspension hole below it, made for a wrist thong in order to ensure that the warrior did not lose it during combat. A finely crafted Maori hand club like this example would have been reserved for chiefs and elite warriors. It is finely carved from whalebone (Physeter catadon) with a large lobed blade and a straight handle decorated with a tiki head looking upward towards the sky. Notice the tiki's protruding tongue; this was understood as an aggressive gesture associated with fierce combat. The sculptor of this kotiate demonstrated a marvelous rendering of volumes on the club and skillfully, ever so slowly, decreased the thickness of the club from the median part until the peripheries where it becomes extremely thin. A fabulous example, delineated in the form of an abstract tiki with both anthropomorphic features. Size: 5.875" W x 12.75" H (14.9 cm x 32.4 cm)
A Maori whalebone kotiate sold for $60,000 at Christie's New York (10 May 2012, lot 8).
See a similarly impressive Maori hand club in the British Museum (Oc1895,-.366) that was collected by Frederick H. Meinertzhagen (1845-1895) circa 1870 on the East coast of New Zealand as well as another example from the Sainsbury Collection previously owned by the Pitt-Rivers Museum (Hooper, 1997, fig.8).
Provenance: private Nevada, USA collection
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#150100Expected age wear, but overall intact and superb.Condition
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