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ART in motion Bonhams Los Angeles—Bonhams will hold a sale of African and Oceanic art at its Los Angeles location on December 2, 2015. One of the highlights of the sale will be a rare Maori ceremonial digging-stick step, teka, from the Ngati Kahungunu area of Hawke’s Bay. Stone carved and an early example, this chiefl y object would have been used to ritually initiate new agricultural plots for growing sweet potatoes. Also featured is a large Tahitian female fi gure, ti‘i, formerly in the collection of E. F. Harris, a founding member of the Polynesian Society. Leading the African section will be an unusual Kwele mask with a human face and horns, collected in the 1920s in Gabon. From the 1950s to the 1970s, it was part of the George Oltay Collection in South Africa, from which it was lent to exhibitions in that country in the sixties and seventies. SAN FRANCISCO IN FEBRUARY San Francisco—Now in its thirtieth year, the annual San Francisco Tribal & Textile Arts Show will once again bring more than eighty of the world’s top tribal art dealers to the city’s Fort Mason Center’s Festival Pavilion. This is the largest event of its kind in North America and will feature a wide variety of sculpture, jewelry, antiques, and accessories from traditional societies around the world. Ranging from galleries that have been doing business for generations to dealers who launched their careers collecting in the fi eld, the artwork offered here is always varied and stimulating. This year the show will be held February 19–21, 2016, later than usual in order to avoid the chaos resulting from the Super Bowl being hosted in the area. The same weekend, The Marin Show: Art of the Americas celebrates its thirty-second year as the world’s leading show specializing in the art and culture of indigenous peoples from North, Central, and South America. Featuring more than 150 dealers, this event showcases a unique combination of antique Native American, Pre-Columbian, Spanish Colonial, and contemporary American Indian art that attracts dealers, passionate collectors, artists, and the culturecurious 36 Female fi gure, ti‘i. Tahiti. Wood. H: 61 cm. Ex E. F. Harris, Gisborne, New Zealand; Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection, Honolulu, Hawaii. To be offered December 2, 2015, at Bonhams, Los Angeles, est. $40,000–60,000. BELOW: Maori ceremonial digging-stick step, teka. Ngati Kahungunu, Hawke’s Bay, North Island, New Zealand. Wood, paua shell, remnants of red sealing wax. H: 15 cm. Ex private collection, France; private collection, England. To be offered December 2, 2015, at Bonhams, Los Angeles, est. $40,000–60,000. from across the world. Held at the Marin Civic Center (twenty minutes north of San Francisco by car), the event is open to the public February 19–21. This year the show will also be hosting Yesterday and Today, a special non-commercial exhibition that will include some 150 historic and seldom-displayed California Indian baskets from the collection of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. RIGHT: Ancestral shrine vault door. Toraja, Sulawesi, Indonesia. 19th century. San Francisco Tribal & Textile Arts Show, courtesy of Mark A. Johnson Tribal Art. BELOW: Monpa mask. Arunachal Pradesh, India. 19th century. San Francisco Tribal & Textile Arts Show, courtesy of Louis Nierijnck/ Karavanserai.


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