Maori Carved Wood Billhook Hand Club, New Zealand, 19th century, the curved blade with deeply carved scroll designs and recumbent bird-head figure on the inside, the handle with grotesque mask finial, pierced for suspension, lg. 14 3/4 in. Provenance: Collected by Rev. Alfred Fairbrother, Baptist minister to the Maoris, 1882-85.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2009-09-26
Maori Carved Wood Billhook Hand Club, Wahaika, 19th century, the curved blade with deeply carved linear design and with a tiki figure on the inside, Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-09-24
Maori Carved Wood Billhook Hand Club, Wahaika, New Zealand, 19th century, the curved blade with deeply carved geometric and scroll designs and recumbent tiki on Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-05-15
Maori Carved Wood Billhook Hand Club, Wahaika, New Zealand, 19th century, the curved blade with deeply carved scroll designs and recumbent tiki on the inside, Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-05-15
Maori Carved Wood Billhook Hand Club, Waika, c. 19th century, with concentric arch design on blade, recumbent tiki on the inside, and grotesque face at Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2015-11-07
Two Contemporary Maori Carved Wood Implements, a hand club and an adze, both decorated with relief carved stylized figures, curvilinear designs, and shell inlays, lg. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2015-01-06
A Rare Maori Carved Wood Door Lintel, c. 19th century, two females and one male with arms upraised and standing on a manaia-headed base representing Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-11-09
Two Maori Carved Wood Boxes, late 19th century, both carved for the tourist market with classic Maori figurative and geometric devices, shell inlay detail, (damage Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2001-09-15
Maori Carved Wood Dance Paddle, c. late 19th century, with stylized Maori designs and four faces, lg. 36 1/4 in. Provenance: Christie's; The Leo Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-05-06
Maori Carved Wood Child's War Club, "Tewhatewha," decorated with classic Maori designs and with remnant haliotis shell inlays, lg. 41 in. Provenance: Ex Julian Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-09-06
Maori Carved Wood Male Figure, New Zealand, 19th century, the standing form with arms projecting behind the back, the three-fingered hands clasping a protruding abdomen, Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2009-09-26
