Auction Closed
May 13, 03:32 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
MAORI CANOE BAILER (TIHERU, TATA, OR TA WAI)
New Zealand
Wood, Paua (Haliotis iris) shell, pigments
Height: 23 in (58.4 cm)
Dr Justin G. Stein, Los Angeles
Harry A. Franklin, Beve🃏rly Hills, acquired from the above by the late 1960s
Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Art of the Pacific, 1971
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Tangata: the Maori Vision of Mankind, September 13 - November 27, 1983