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BELOW LEFT: Club, u’u.
Marquesas Islands. Early
19th century.
Wood. H: 146 cm.
Collected by Elijah Armitage between
1821 and 1836.
To be offered by Woolley & Wallis,
18 and 19 September 2019,
est. 10,000–20,000 BP.
BELOW: Covered box,
inscribed “George Hawthorn
1830.” Maori; New Zealand.
Early 19th century.
Wood. L: 43.5 cm.
To be offered by Woolley &
Wallis, 18 and 19 September
2019, est. 6,000–8,000 BP.
ABOVE: Flute stopper.
Probably Iatmul; Middle
Sepik, Papua New Guinea.
Wood, pigment, shell. H: 33 cm.
To be offered by De Zwaan,
Amsterdam, 5 November 2019.
LEFT: Maternity fi gure.
Dogon, N´duleri style; Mali.
Wood. H: 73.5 cm.
To be offered by De Zwaan,
Amsterdam, 5 November 2019.
RIGHT: Shield. Asmat; Papua
Province, Indonesia.
Ex Ernst Heinrich, Stuttgart.
Wood, pigment.
To be offered by De Zwaan,
Amsterdam, 5 November 2019.
ART IN MOTION
Tribal Art Auction
SALISBURY—British auction house Woolley and Wallis
is preparing a major sale of non-European artworks,
which will include more than a thousand pieces and
will be held on September 18–19, 2019. Oceania will
be especially well represented with a signifi cant group
of objects from New Ireland relating to the malangan
ceremonies; a Marquesas Islands u’u club collected by
Elijah Armitage, a member of the London Missionary
Society, in the course of the fi fteen years (1821–1836)
that he and his family lived in Tahiti; and a Fijian conch
shell that was formerly the property of British collector
James Thomas Hooper. African art collectors won’t
feel left out. The sale will also feature traditional works
of Sub-Saharan African art such as a Luba/Hemba
caryatid stool collected by Hilaire de Clercq between
1914 and 1918. About fi fty lots of works from American
Indian cultures, including beaded pieces, shirts,
ABOVE: Caryatid stool. and war clubs, will complete the sale.
Luba/Hemba; DR Congo.
Early 20th century.
Wood. H: 39.5 cm.
Collected by Hilaire de Clercq between
1914 and 1918.
To be offered by Woolley & Wallis,
18 and 19 September 2019,
est. 8,000–12,000 BP.
Sale at De Zwaan
AMSTERDAM—The De Zwaan auction
house will offer a number of tribal
art objects from well-known Dutch collections
at an auction that will be held on November 5,
2019, around the same time as the Amsterdam Tribal
Art Fair. One of the highlights of the sale will be what
is very likely a Iatmul fl ute stopper from the Middle
Sepik River in Papua New Guinea. It was purchased in
the 1930s by artist, author, and Dutch museum direc-