MAORI WORKS OF ART
SOLD BY AUCTION. Over seven hundred Jots of Maori and South Sea curios were sold by auction at McKenna's Galleries, Lambton Quay, during the last three days. The Dominion, Auckland, and Dunedin Museums were the heaviest buyers, though private collectors were well represented. A few of the prices realised are shown below Blackstone tokis (adzes), from 5/- to £2/10/-; bone pendants, £1 to £5; tikis, £3 to £22/10/-; matau, £5/2/6; manaia, £l5; meres. £2 to £l5; and human bone flute. £3/10-. A carved Maori meeting house, which has been in storage in Wellington for many years, will be auctioned very shorn? ■
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 74, 20 December 1929, Page 23
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105MAORI WORKS OF ART Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 74, 20 December 1929, Page 23
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