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Headrest, Tonga Island

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Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 25

Headrest, Tonga Island

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5.625 $
Beschreibung:

kali hahapo Wood length 19 5/8in (50cm) PROVENANCE Private Collection, New Zealand According to Cartmail (1997: p 52), "Cook was mistaken in assuming that the kali were essentially stools. Kali in fact were kali, that is, native wooden pillows or headrests for the head or nape of the neck to rest on. William Mariner, who stayed four years in Tonga 29 years after Cook's visit, was quite unequivocal in his description of kali...he stated that the neckrests or kali themselves were of Fijian origin but made chiefly in Tonga by canoe-builders. What is more likely the case is that in Fiji, kali were being made of Fijian hardwoods by the Lemaki canoe-builders established there by the Tongans, which explains why, to a large extent, the same artefacts were found in Fiji." Probably stone carved from one piece of wood without any joints, in the classic and elegant hahapo M-shape.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 25
Auktion:
Datum:
15.05.2014
Auktionshaus:
Bonhams London
New York 580 Madison Avenue New York NY 10022 Tel: +1 212 644 9001 Fax : +1 212 644 9009 info.us@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

kali hahapo Wood length 19 5/8in (50cm) PROVENANCE Private Collection, New Zealand According to Cartmail (1997: p 52), "Cook was mistaken in assuming that the kali were essentially stools. Kali in fact were kali, that is, native wooden pillows or headrests for the head or nape of the neck to rest on. William Mariner, who stayed four years in Tonga 29 years after Cook's visit, was quite unequivocal in his description of kali...he stated that the neckrests or kali themselves were of Fijian origin but made chiefly in Tonga by canoe-builders. What is more likely the case is that in Fiji, kali were being made of Fijian hardwoods by the Lemaki canoe-builders established there by the Tongans, which explains why, to a large extent, the same artefacts were found in Fiji." Probably stone carved from one piece of wood without any joints, in the classic and elegant hahapo M-shape.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 25
Auktion:
Datum:
15.05.2014
Auktionshaus:
Bonhams London
New York 580 Madison Avenue New York NY 10022 Tel: +1 212 644 9001 Fax : +1 212 644 9009 info.us@bonhams.com
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