CANOE PROW (NAHO)
Auction Closed
May 13, 03:32 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
CANOE PROW (NAHO)
Probably Atchin or Vao, northeast Malakula, Vanuatu
Wood
Height: 12 ¾ in (32.4 cm)
French Private Collection
Harry A. Franklin, Beverly Hills, acquired from the above in the 1960s
PUBLISHED
John Lunsford, Arts of Oceania, Dallas, 1970, n.p., cat. no. 88
George R. Ellis, Oceanic Art: A Celebration of Form, San Diego, 2009, p. 106, cat. no. 89
Dallas Museum of Replica Handbags s, Arts of Oceania, October 10 - November 29, 1970
San Diego Museum of Art, Oceanic Art: A Celebration of Form, January 31, 2009 - January 3, 2010
See Bonnemaison ed., Vanuatu, Océanie. Arts des îles de cendre et de corail, Paris, 1996, p. 39, fig. 51 for a closely related canoe prow, naho, collected on Atchin by Jean Guiart, and now in the collection of the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Paris (inv. no. 72.1966.16.3).