Aboriginal and Oceanic Art
Catalogue Information: 523 lots | 337 with images
Date: 2005
Auction House:
Sotheby's
Location:
Australia
Lot 1: JOHN W. LINDT 1845-1926
MOTO WATER CARRIER, PORT MORESBY 1885 MEASUREMENTS 129 by 90 cm Carbon print Bears artist's name top right PROVENANCE Private collection, Darwin REFERENCE Lindt, J. W., Picturesque New Guinea, Longmans, Green & Co. London 1887 Cf. Jones, S., J.W. Li [...more]
Lot 2: JOHN W. LINDT 1845-1926
MOURNERS AND DEAD HOUSE AT KALO, NEW GUINEA 1885 MEASUREMENTS 88 by 120 cm Carbon print Bears artist's name top right PROVENANCE Private collection, Darwin REFERENCE Jones, S., J.W. Lindt Master Photographer, Curry O'Neil & Ross, Melbourne, 1985 p.9 [...more]
Lot 3: JOHN W. LINDT 1845-1926
A GROUP OF FIVE STAGED PORTRAITS OF ABORIGINES, GRAFTON 1874MEASUREMENTS ll prints 20 by 14.5 cm Albumen prints All prints bear number bottom right REFERENCE Lindt, J.W., Australian Aboriginals Photographed by J.W. Lindt, Grafton, NSW 1880 Cooper Ca [...more]
Lot 4: A SHARK SKIN RASP, (KILI), SOLOMON ISLANDS
MEASUREMENTS 36.2 cm Carved wood, shark skin PROVENANCE Bears old label attached to the reverse that reads "native sand paper made of shark skin."
Lot 5: A PRESENTATION WHALE'S TOOTH NECKLACE, (TABUA)
MEASUREMENTS 20 cm (tooth) Large sperm whale's tooth, pierced at both ends, attached to sennit binding
