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Hei Tiki

Archives | New Zealand

Hei Tiki

New Zealand

Hei Tiki pendant
Maori

19th century or earlier
Carved greenstone (Pounamu – nephrite)
Height: 7.5 cm – 3 in.

Provenance
Ex Sotheby’s New York 5 May 1997, lot 134
Ex private collection
Ex Christie’s Paris, 19 June 2013, lot 16
Ex private collection, France, acquired from the above

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This carved Hei Tiki figure is a representation of the primordial ancestor of the Maori people. This pendant is carved in a superb piece of nephrite (pounamu in the Maori language). This greenstone, which is found only on the South Island of New Zealand, was a highly valuable material. It was particularly prized by the Maori for its hardness and its color.
The figure is shown head-on, his head leaning to the left. The facial features (nose, mouth, eyes) are finely and deeply carved.
Hei Tiki pendants were worn around the neck on a narrow cord of woven fibers. These prestige ornaments were passed on from generation to generation.
Hei Tiki pendants were said to bring the protection of the clan ancestors to the wearer, and served as a statement of the clan’s affiliation, going back to Tiki, the mythical warrior.
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Malagan Ornament

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Malagan Ornament

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Late 19th or early 20th century
Carved wood, pigments, shell
Height: 40 cm – 15 ¾ in.

Provenance
Ex Galerie Pierre Vérité, Paris
Ex private collection, France, acquired from the above in 1962
Ex Galerie Flak, Paris
Ex collection Pierrette & Pierre Souleil, Paris, acquired from the above
Ex Christie’s Paris, Dec. 2020

Published: FAB Paris, 2023
Sold
"And Loplop, bird superior, has transformed himself into flesh without flesh and will dwell among us..."
Max Ernst, The Hundred Headless Woman, Editions du Carrefour, 1929

The Surrealists were enthusiastic admirers of the arts of New Ireland, and the preceding quote resonates perfectly with the sculpture opposite depicting two intertwined animals, a bird perched on a marsupial.
The ritual life and social organization of the clans of northern New Ireland was punctuated by long and complex funerary ceremonies called malagan. An extraordinarily diverse group of statues, objects and masks with specific functions was created in this context, sometimes for a single use lasting only minutes. Philippe Peltier notes in New Ireland: Art of the South Pacific (quai Branly museum, 2006, p. 78) that the malagan aims at picking up the ancestor's energy, channeling it and sharing it out among the members of the clan to tighten social bonds within the community.

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Admiralty
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Admiralty Islands

War charm
Admiralty Islands, Bismark Archipelago, Papua New Guinea

Early 20th century
Carved wood, feathers and pigments
Height : 48 cm – 17 ¾ in.

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Ex collection Bela Hein (1883-1931), Paris
Ex collection Marc de Monbrison (1942-1985), Paris
By descent

Published: FAB Paris, 2023
Admiralty War Charm 48 cm / Galerie Flak Price on request
These neck ornaments were worn by warriors from the Admiralty Islands.
They served as powerful war charms believed to offer protection against the dangers of combat. They were said to render the wearer invulnerable to enemies.
As noted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (see inventory number 1980.546 for a comparable example), the ornaments were worn on the back of the neck, secured by a necklace of cordage tied so tightly that the head faced upward and the feathers projected horizontally.
The ancient neck ornament shown here was part of the collections of Bela Hein, a legendary art dealer in Paris before the 1930s.

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homme portant un charme de guerre art oceanien anthony jp meyer fig p

Matankol from Lambutjo decorated for war, Fülleborn, Admiralitäts Inseln, Dr Hans Nevermann, pl. 3, 1934

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Tolai mask

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Tolai mask

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Lor mask
Bismark archipelago, Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain

20th century
Bois, pigments, fibres, plumes, dents
Height: 52 cm – 20 ½ in.

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Tolai Lor mask 52 cm / Galerie Flak Price on request
As stated by the Metropolitan Museum of New York, these masks appearing to be smiling are known by variants of the name lor, which means skull in Tolai.
Tolai lor masks are worn by performers in a dance called tambaran kakao (spirit that crawls). The masks reportedly represent a spirit that comes to a local leader in dreams and reveals the details of dance paraphernalia and choreography.
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Kanak War Club

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Kanak War Club

New Caledonia

Porowa ra maru “bird head” club

Carved wood
Late 19th or early 20th century
Height: 29 ¾ in. – 75.5 cm

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Ex Christie’s London, 30 January 2019, lot 131
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Kanak Bird head club 75.5 cm / Galerie Flak Price on request
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York states that the distinctively shaped porowa ra maru, or "bird head" clubs of New Caledonia were prestigious objects created for use by chiefs. The clubs symbolized wealth and high rank, and on some occasions served as gifts during ceremonial exchanges.
The top of the clubs are carved in the form of stylized bird heads typically distinguished, as here, by long, pointed beaks. However, as none of New Caledonia's indigenous birds have a similar beak, some scholars have suggested that the image instead represents the head of a sea turtle with its projecting, beaklike mouth.

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Ula War Club

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Ula War Club

Fiji Islands

I Ula Tavatava throwing club

Carved wood
19th century
Height: 14 ¼ in. – 36.5 cm

Provenance
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Ex private collection, UK

Ula War Club 36.5 cm / Galerie Flak Price on request
It was in 1643 that the Dutch navigator Abel Janszoon Tasman discovered the Fiji archipelago in the South Pacific. Traditional Fiji society was organized around clans and divided into hierarchal classes, with chiefs and priests found at the summit. War occupied a preponderant place within Fijian society. Battles served to reinforce the authority of chiefs as well as to multiply ties between different groups of allies.
War clubs conferred prestige on their owners, and were proof of their status as warriors.

I-ula tavatava throwing clubs were among the favorite (and deadliest) weapons of Fijian warriors. They could be used as a bludgeon in close combat or thrown in short range distances at assailants. They were carved from the rootstock of a hardwood tree.

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Navigation Chart

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Navigation Chart

Marshall Islands

Navigation chart
Marshall Islands
Micronesia

20th century
Wood and shells
Length: 56 cm – 22 in.

Provenance
Ex collection J. Kennedy, Hawaii
Ex Bonhams Los Angeles, 2016
Ex private collection, Paris

Marshall Navigation Chart 56 cm / Galerie Flak Price on request
Stick charts were made and used by the Marshallese to navigate the Pacific Ocean by canoe off the coast of the Marshall Islands. The charts represented major ocean swell patterns and the ways the islands disrupted those patterns, typically determined by sensing disruptions in ocean swells by islands during sea navigation. Most stick charts were made from the midribs of coconut fronds that were tied together to form an open framework. Island locations were represented by shells tied to the framework, or by the lashed junction of two or more sticks. The threads represented prevailing ocean surface wave-crests and directions they took as they approached islands and met other similar wave-crests formed by the ebb and flow of breakers. Individual charts varied so much in form and interpretation that the individual navigator who made the chart was the only person who could fully interpret and use it. The use of stick charts ended after World War II when new electronic technologies made navigation more accessible and travel among islands by canoe lessened. The stick charts are a significant contribution to the history of cartography because they represent a system of mapping ocean swells, which was never before accomplished. They also use different materials from those common in other parts of the world. They are an indication that ancient maps may have looked very different, and encoded different features from the earth, than the maps we use today.
The charts, unlike traditional maps, were studied and memorized prior to a voyage and were not consulted during a trip, as compared to traditional navigation techniques where consultation of a map is frequent and points and courses are plotted out both before and during navigation.
Marshallese navigators used their senses and memory to guide them on voyages by crouching down or lying prone in the canoe to feel how the canoe was being pitched and rolled by underlying swells.

"Fearless and adventurous voyagers as the Polynesians were in former centuries, they appear never to have studied ocean phenomena in their bearing on the science of navigation with anything like the painstaking and methodical skill which the Marshall Islanders devoted to this subject. Doubtless by observation their sailing experts could infer much from the run of the ocean swells, but this knowledge was comparatively elementary and was never detailed, tabulated, and set forth in the form of primitive charts. In the Marshall Islands, on the contrary, every chief and sea pilot possessed elaborate charts based upon his own experience and on knowledge handed down or gained from others." (Canoes Of Oceania, Haddon & Hornell, 1975: p. 372)
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Fan Handle

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Fan Handle

Marquesas Islands

Ke’e Tahi’i Fan Handle

19th century
Carved wood
Height: 32 cm – 12 ½ in.

Provenance
Ex collection Lady Brassey, presumably collected during a voyage aboard the “Sunbeam” (1876-1883)
Ex collection Hastings Museum, UK
Ex collection James T. Hooper, Arundel, n°428
Ex collection Wayne Heathcote, London
Ex Christie’s London, 3-4 July 1990, lot 114
Ex private collection, New York
Ex private collection, UK

Literature
« Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas, The James Hooper Collection »,
Steven Phelps, Hutchinson Publications, London, 1976, p. 102

Published: FAB Paris, 2023
Marquesas Fan handle 32 cm / Galerie Flak Price on request
Veritable insignia of the right to command, Marquesas fans were above all a sign of power and distinction. Only highly placed dignitaries, chiefs and princesses had the right to possess these objects of prestige, whose utilitarian function was to « prolong the effects of a beneficial breath of air » as explained by Marie Noëlle Ottino-Garanger in Kannibals et Vahinés (Chartres, 2002).
Fans were transmitted from generation to generation, and were considered to be inalienable family treasures.
This fan handle with a historic pedigree is composed of two sets of tiki standing back to back, surmounting upside-down figures with elongated faces.

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