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| DM00132SM SUSPENSION HOOK MIDDLE SEPIK more... | DM0090SM MINJA FIGURE WASKUK AREA more... | DM0090SM (REAR) | DM0050SM RAMU RIVER MISINGI FIGURE more... | DM0050SM (SIDE) | DM0050SM (REAR) | DM00209SM SKULL CARRIER PORA PORA RIVER more... |
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| DM00209SM SKULL CARRIER PORA PORA RIVER more... | DM00209SM (DETAIL) | DM0049SM RAMU RIVER MISINGI FIGURE more... | DM0049SM (SIDE) | DM0049SM(REAR) | DM00133SM MASSIM TABUYA WAVE SPLITTER more... | DM00133SM (DETAIL) |
DM00192SM Haus Tambaran roof finial
Catalogue #_DM__00194SM___________
Item _HAUS TAMBARAN ROOF FINIAL
Dimensions: Ht.= 140cm W.= 25cm D.= 25cm
Description (physical):
Wooden sculpture with raffia ans string skirt. The female figure has a bird on her shoulders. The whole painted in white and red ochres
Description (ethnographic/ historic including provenance)
These roof finials are from the Middle Sepik and are from the Haus Tambaran. This one had shell eyes in the past which are now gone.
Similar sculpures illustrated:
REFLECTIONS OF THE SEPIK by G and R McKie 1993 on page 60
DM00134SM YINA MA WASHKUK HILLS
Catalogue #_DM__00134SM___________
Item _ YINA
Dimensions: Ht.= 64cm W.= 22cm D.= 10cm
Description (physical):
Wooden sculpture decorated in ochres.The face has a mask below which is a mouth and then a stalk. The rear has three protrusions.
Description (ethnographic/ historic including provenance)
The Yina is part of the Yam festival of the Washkuk Hills and the Abelam. The ceremony is in three parts the yina is just one component in that ceremony, the others being the Nogwi and the Minja.
DM0084SM ORATORS STOOL YENTCHEN VILLAGE MIDDLE SEPIK
Catalogue #_DM__0084SM___________
ItemYENTCHEN VILLAGE ORATORS STOOL _
Dimensions: Ht.= 205cm W.= 70cm D.= 53cm
Description (physical):
Shell and wood with carpet and raffia. Painted in white pink and black. The stool has a large figure on the back with a possum on his head. The front has a stool and two other figures holding it up. It is carved of the one piece of wood.
Description (ethnographic/ historic including provenance)
This wooden sculpture is a real personal favourite. He has been part of my collection since the beginning. He has a majestic charm and an aura that is mesmerising. He is a stool similar in usage to DM00186SM and is from the Middle Sepik but a different village. He is from Yenchen village in the Middle Sepik an Iatmul people village. He has a couple of other smaller figures one decorated with a strip of carpet on the head.I bought this figure in 1998
Similar sculpures illustrated:
A stunning illustration with a tropical flower beard is in REFLECTIONS OF THE SEPIK by G and R McKie 1993 on page 61 . It is missing the possum on the head.
DM00195SM SUSPENSION HOOK KOREWORI RIVER
Catalogue #_DM_00195SM ______FORMER GERRITS COLLECTION#169_____
Item _KOROWORI RIVER SUSPENSION HOOK
Dimensions: Ht.= cm W.= cm D.=cm
Description (physical):
Wooden suspension hook with a face atop and a flying fox at the base. The figure has an undulating middle with scroll motifs. It has a Gerrits label on the back attached by thumb tacks.
Description (ethnographic/ historic including provenance)
This is a wooden suspension hook. It was field collected by Fred Gerrits who collected in New Guinea and West Papua through the sixties and seventies. Gerrits was a doctor for the UN and went all over the country. He tried as often as he could to collect the name of the piece and the artist. This figure has both thanks two his diligence.The artist MARANG(+) tHE SCULPTURE'S NAME IS sambiam . The figure is from the KANGRIABON village KUNGRIABON Korowori river.It was collected in 1965. The figure has some damage.
Bought at the auction of the Gerrits collection 2004 Sydney
DM0042SM CANOE STANCHION MOROBE PROVINCE
Catalogue #_DM__0042SM_
Also other collection number P7391(Price)
Item__CANOE STANCHION DAMPIER STRAITS TUAM ISLANDS.
Dimensions: Ht.=97cm W.= 10cm D.=3cm
Description (physical):
Wooden post carved with four holes on the body. Y shaped at the top scroll motif and carvings in relief on both sides of the stanchion. Attached to a metal stand. Evidence of insect damage.
Description (ethnographic/ historic including provenance)
A near identical canoe stanchion is illustrated in the Sothebys London catalogue of the Peter Hallinan Collection 7/12/1992 lot number 99. In the lot description a canoe stanchion is described as being used to elevate the passenger platform above cargo hatches on two masted outrigger sailing canoes used for overseas trading expeditions. The same lot description states that for a similar example see Haddon and Hornell, 1937,vol II, fig.95.. This stanchion may also be one collected by Peter Hallinan
Acquired in Sydney 1999
Similar illustrations in:
Sothebys London December 1992 Lot#99(Peter Hallinan Collection)
THE CANOES OF OCEANIA Haddon and Hornell 1937 vol. II fig. 95
Catalogue #_DM 0098SM__________
Item _MALE ANCESTOR FIGURE
Dimensions: Ht.= 41cm W.= 10cm D.= 12cm
Description (physical):
Wooden sculpture with shell eyes. Elongated face and one armed.
Description (ethnographic/ historic including provenance)
This figure has only one arm and was deliberately carved that way. It has a typical look of the Sepik and is extremely well proportioned. I would love to know more than I do about this piece. The figure is from the Sepik but as to village or people I dont know. I certainly know of no others with the same physical deformity
DM00132SM SUSPENSION HOOK MIDDLE SEPIK
Catalogue #_DM_00132SM____________
Item _CEREMONIAL SUSPENSION HOOK
Dimensions: Ht.= 52cm W.= 32cm D.= 2.5cm
Description (physical):
Abstract wooden suspension hook ,decorated in white and orange ochres.
Description (ethnographic/ historic including provenance)
This hook is from the middle Sepik and is a suspension hook. This one is probably ceremonial and would/could have hung in the men's house and been used to keep vermin away from the bilums hanging from it. I dont think that this piece is terribly old and would love to know more about it.
DM0090SM MINJA FIGURE WASHKUK AREA
Catalogue #_DM__0090SM___________
Item _ MINJA FIGURE WASHKUK HILLS AREA
Dimensions: Ht.= 113cm W.= 34cm D.= 22cm
Description (physical):
Wooden sculpture painted in house paints in orange, black ,grey , yellow and white. Two protruding eyes below a domed forhead and protruding nose. The face is flat with the aforementioned parts protruding from it.similarly the mouth. The lower half has scrolling motifs and two loops with a tail.
Description (ethnographic/ historic including provenance)
The Minja figures are part of the tri figured yam ceremonies from this and the Abelam area. The other two are the Nogwi and Yina figures. I have seen extremely large Minja figures and most are very brightly coloured.
DM0050SM RAMU RIVER MISINGI FIGURE
Catalogue #_DM__0050SM___________
Item _ RAMU RIVER MISINGI FIGURE
Dimensions: Ht.= 69cm W.= 7cm D.= 9cm
Description (physical):
Wooden sculpture with double face. One face is within the hooks above and below it. Above this is the second face with traditional top knot of the region.The torso is devoid of genitalia
Description (ethnographic/ historic including provenance)
I bought this figure at a sale. They are known as MISINGI and are catalogued in Australian sales as such but the reason why or the origins or meaning of the word I am unsure of.
DM00209SM SKULL CARRIER PORA PORA RIVER
Catalogue #_DM__00209SM___________
Item _ SKULL CARRIER PORA PORA RIVER
Dimensions: Ht.= 204cm W.= 19cm D.=10cm
Description (physical):
Long wooden sculpture roughly adzed in a human figure. The face area is hollowed out and the topo of the head has a pole about sixty centimetres long rising from it. The whole figure is encrusted and has some insect damage.
Description (ethnographic/ historic including provenance)
Meyer states that very little is known of these sculptures other than they were kept at the men's house and were used in certain rites.They would have had a skull inserted in the oval and held in place by rattan binding. The whole figure would then have been decorated with feathers ,jewellery, painted and adorned with finery.The skull used would have been that of an ancestor.
New Guinea Art 2005 Volume 2 page100 cat#113 states that this figure is from the Adjirab people of the Pora Pora region and is called a "MARO" . The one illustrated in the catalogue is decorated and is complete with a skull. The Friede book states thatthe skull holder is placed in the men's house and was displayed alongside several others.
This figure is devoid of decoration and is missing the skull for wich it was made. The figure is serene and has a great deal of presence which is stunning.
Similar sculpures illustrated:
Oceanic Art Volume 1 A. Meyer 1995 page 200 fig 208
New Guinea Art J. Friede Catalogue # 113 both volumes for a completely decorated figure including skull.
DM0049SM RAMU RIVER MISINGI FIGURE
Catalogue #_DM_0049SM____________
Item _RAMU RIVER MISINGI FIGURE
Dimensions: Ht.=69 cm W.= 9cm D.=9cm
Description (physical):
Wooden sculpture with hooks above and below the face. The torso is devoid of any genitalia as is DM0050SM.
Description (ethnographic/ historic including provenance)
This highly abstract figure has a very typical Ramu mask and is tinted in black. It is called a MISINGI figure and is catalogued as such in Australian auctions. I cannot find any reference in books why it has that name. If there are any books where these sculptures are illustrated or named I would love to know about them.
Bought Sydney 1997
DM00133SM MASSIM TABUYA WAVE SPLITTER
Catalogue #_DM_00133SM_______also H418 (former Hallinan collection#)_____
Item _ MASSIM TABUYA WAVE SPLITTER
Dimensions: Ht.= 52.5cm W.= 29cm D.=2cm
Description (physical):
Wooden sculpture with an overall design in low relief or shallow engravings of a number of abstract designs. The most apparent one of these is the repeated scroll pattern. This Tabuya has a serpent in green chasing a green sea bird. The splitter is carved in low relief on both sides.
Description (ethnographic/ historic including provenance)
Wave splitters are from the large ocean going KULA canoes. In the book MASSIM by NEWTON 1975 he describes this style of Tabuya as having come from the d'Entrecasteaux and Trobriand Islands group. This is a very subtle sculpture and the serpent and bird add a lovely charming touch.
Similar sculpures illustrated:
Stohr. 1987 page 97 pl.91 and 92 Kunst and Kulture Aus Des Sudsee
Newton 1975 fig. 49. Massim, Art of The Massim Area, New Guinea. M.O.P.A. NY.
Meyer A 1995 Oceanic Art.