Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities Day One - 17th September 2025
Lot 306
A Buka Island model canoe
Estimate £1,500 - £2,000
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Description
A Buka Island model canoe
Solomon Islands, Melanesia
with carved chevron, circle and graduated spear tip designs and pigment decoration, with a paper label inscribed SOLOMON IS. BOUKA ISLAND CANOE. II.IV.92,
332cm long.
Provenance
William Ohly (1883 - 1955) Berkeley Galleries and Abbey Museum, New Barnet, London, UK, and thence by descent.