Mixed lot (3 items): New Guinea: three bone daggers from the Asmat territory.
1: A long, light-coloured cassowary bone dagger, with good, old, reddish-brown patina on the upper end of the handle.
2: A small cassowary bone dagger with consistent red brown patina. With multiple piercing at the upper end of the handle, for a decorative hanging made of strings of light grey seed capsules and cassowary feathers (hanging now lost).
3: A cassowary bone dagger with visibly very old bone. The upper section of the hilt is cloaked with wickerwork of twisted vegetable cords. Complete with carrying cord. It comes with a matching sheath made of the same wickerwork as the hilt.
All 3 objects display good, old usage patina. No damage. Between c. 1900 and the first third of the 20th century; L: 33 cm, 28.5 cm, 29 cm. (ME) ASA
Provenance: Acquired by the consignor on the Dairam River, in the hinterland of the Asmat territory on the southern coast of New Guinea. Austrian private collection.
Specialist: Erwin Melchardt
Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465
erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at
05.11.2014 - 13:00
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EUR 1,000.- to EUR 1,500.-
Mixed lot (3 items): New Guinea: three bone daggers from the Asmat territory.
1: A long, light-coloured cassowary bone dagger, with good, old, reddish-brown patina on the upper end of the handle.
2: A small cassowary bone dagger with consistent red brown patina. With multiple piercing at the upper end of the handle, for a decorative hanging made of strings of light grey seed capsules and cassowary feathers (hanging now lost).
3: A cassowary bone dagger with visibly very old bone. The upper section of the hilt is cloaked with wickerwork of twisted vegetable cords. Complete with carrying cord. It comes with a matching sheath made of the same wickerwork as the hilt.
All 3 objects display good, old usage patina. No damage. Between c. 1900 and the first third of the 20th century; L: 33 cm, 28.5 cm, 29 cm. (ME) ASA
Provenance: Acquired by the consignor on the Dairam River, in the hinterland of the Asmat territory on the southern coast of New Guinea. Austrian private collection.
Specialist: Erwin Melchardt
Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465
erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at
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| Auction: | Tribal Art |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 05.11.2014 - 13:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 31.10. - 05.11.2014 |