Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities Day Two - 18th September 2025
Lot 824
A Solomon Islands standing figure
Estimate £500 - £800
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Description
A Solomon Islands standing figure
Melanesia
with carved shell inlay, with a rounded coiffure and carved linear and chevron decoration to the face, with bent arms and hands on the chest, bands of carved zig-zags to the calves, supported by two nusu nusu heads,
39.5cm high.
Provenance
Rev. Bryan Percival Robin (1887 - 1969) and thence by descent.
Ordained as a priest in 1911, becoming a member of the Bush Brotherhood of St Barnabas in Northern Queensland, Australia from 1914 - 1921. Other appointments kept him Australia and back to the UK. In 1941 he was ordained as the Bishop of Adelaide, until returning to the UK in 1956.