Day 1 - Tribal Art the Americas, Indonesia & Oceania - 18th September 2019
Lot 1411
A Rennell Island shark hook gaung'akao Melanesia wood and woven sennit
Estimate £3,000 - £5,000 | Hammer £8500
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Description
A Rennell Island shark hook gaung'akao
Melanesia
wood and woven sennit,
30.5cm high including loop, 21.5cm high without loop.
Provenance
Squadron Leader Bowes-Lyon, Agincourt House, Dartmouth, late 1960's.
cf. see Adrienne L. Kaeppler. Polynesia - The Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection of Polynesian Art, 2010, p.272, pl.227 - "Ritual hooks were used by the priest of the island to invoke the gods before fishing and were considered taboo."