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Ancestor Figure, Uli
New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Wood, pigments, chalk, black Parinarium Laurinum nut paste,
shells, coconut fibres
Mid-19th century
110cm
Provenance:
Serge Brignoni, Bern;
Julius Carlebach, New York,
Faith-Dorian and Martin Wright, New
York, (acquired from the above on January 4, 1967)
Published:
Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, Uli: Powerful Ancestors from the
Pacific, Bornival, 2021

Serge Brignoni photographed circa 1930 with the Uli
price on request

Feather money roll or currency
Tevau
Santa Cruz Islands, Temotu
Province, Solomon Islands
Feathers, material, bark,
shells, bush string
Late 19th century to early 20th
century
width as shown 90cm
Provenance:
private collection Melbourne


Ancient stone carved pre-contact
ancestral hooked spirit figure, Nggwalndu
Abelam, Roma region, Eastern
Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
Wood, Pigments
19th century
153cm
Provenance :
- Dr. George Kennedy
Collection (1919- 1980), collected by him in Abelam area between
1962 and 1964.
- Christie's sale, Los
Angeles, 1981, lot 78.
- Milton Arno Leof
Collection.
- Collection Nadine
Vinot-Postry, Cuernavaca.
price on request

Bowl
Admiralty Islands, Bismarck
Archipelago, PNG
Wood, natural resin
19th century
60cm
Provenance:
Collection Edith Hafter (1911-2001) Solothurn, Switzerland.
price on request

Club, patu onewa
Maori, New Zealand
Stone
18th century
30.5cm
Provenance:
Collection Monique and Ismar Gosselin, France
price on request

House of Monique and Ismar
Gosselin showing Patu on wall. Monique and Ismar
Gosselin asked
Architect,
polemicist and theoretician Mr.Claude Parent to build
there family home just outside Paris in the 1950s.
Claude Parent was the first person in France to make a sharp
epistemological break with modernism, beginning in the mid 1950s

Bowl
Society Islands,
Polynesia
Wood, natural native fiber repairs
Early 19th century
46cm
Provenance:
Private collection, New Zealand
price on request
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