Clars' March Fine Art, Furniture, Decoratives, Jewelery, and Asian Art Auction

Micronesian pounder, the stylized form having a nipple top, 6"h Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del Rey, California

Tahiti, French Polynesian pounder, 6"h Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del Rey, California

Tahiti, French Polynesia, pounder, having small chips from use, 6"h

Polynesian pounder, having much patina of use, 7"h Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del Rey, California

Fiji "Calacula" club 19th century, the shaped form having incised detail with original patina, 41.5"h Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, ...

Tonga "Calacula" club having incised decoration, 32"l

A Tonga, Polynesia neckrest of curvaceous shape, much use and age, 6.5"h x 16"w Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del Rey, Califo...

A Maori, New Zealand ceremonial feast ladle, 16"l Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del Rey, California

A Maori, New Zealand, attractive and apparently handled and patinated but probably decorative object, an enigma that appears to have been skillful...

Wuvulu Island Papua New Guinea traditional adze, 19th century, with turtle rib blade, 12"l Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del ...

A Tonga Polynesia neckrest, 19th century, with legs sennit-lashed underneath, 5.5"h x 18.5"w Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina de...

Fiji "Dui" club, having a rounded edge with incised detail, 36"h Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del Rey, California

A Malaita Island, Solomon Islands; circa 1950s, fine club with triangular head, Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del Rey, Califo...

French Polynesian sea shell crown, 8"dia. Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del Rey, California

French Polynesian sea shell crown, 8"dia. Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del Rey, California

A Ceremonial Adze, Mangia Island, Cook Islands, Late 19th Century, a genuine old one used for ceremonies and not made to trade to sailors, apparen...

Mangia Island Cook Islands, large and fine turret adze; binding and stone appear original, 40.5"l Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Mari...

Maori New Zealand Orators staff late 19th century, 44"l Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del Rey, California

Abelam, Papua New Guinea, "Baba" mask; woven fiber and pigments, 21"h Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del Rey, California

Maori New Zealand tall staff 19th century, with figural finial above the carved body, 70"h Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del ...

A Sepik River, Papua New Guinea, mysteriously truncated figure, having stylized facial feaures, the abstract form lacking lower legs, 16"h; Proven...

A Papua New Guinea small but shapely and sculptural carving known as a Koriwori hook; this good example showing evidence of apparent age and use, ...

A doll for young girls to carry in early thinking towards maternity, termed an Akua-Bua, the very stylized form a classic of the abstraction in Af...

Throwing Club, Ula, Fiji, with incised handle, 16"l; Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del Rey, California

(lot of 3) Fiji throwing clubs, 'Ulla', two of which are similarly shaped and sized and carved out of extremely heavy and hard wood, 19th century,...

A head fragmented from a larger Malangan sculpture, New Ireland, of fine older workmanship, probably pre-WWII, polychrome with a rust-red dominati...

Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, small 'head' of a fibrous vegetal or plant material, possibly with a hollow gourd in the middle, painted with white, ...

An adze blade of ideal hard stone and workmanship from Hawaii's classic lithic source, an old and superb example, 7.5"l, Provenance: Richard I.M. ...

Vanuatu, Rambaramp modeled skull, decorated with polychrome pigment, approximately 11"l; Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del Re...

A lot of two small and decorative fern wood figurines, 16"h Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del Rey, California

(lot of 2) North Malaita Islands, Soloman Islands, circa 1950's beautiful dance wands, bird shaped, largest: 11.5"h; Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelt...

(lot of 2) Zulu weapons, South Africa, both of hard wood, the shorter a hand-club or throwing club, 'knob kerrie', with the ball head having two p...

(lot of 2) Zulu people, South Africa, finely wire-wrapped clubs, termed 'knob kerries', comprised of a hard wood that has been laboriously and art...

A Middle Sepik River region Papua New Guinea, figural food hook circa 1960, used to suspend food above rodents' access, with cowrie-she'll eyes, h...

A Malaita Island, Solomon Islands parrying shield with fine figure, 52"h Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del Rey, California

(lot of 3) Stone artifacts from the South Pacific, including a Papua New Guinea stone adze blade, together with an octopus lure made of worked vol...

A Vanuatu hat mask, Namba people, Malekula, with a figure on back-top, clay over fiber, pink and black pigments with white dots, 17.5"h x 12.5"w; ...

Papua New Guinea standing figure, the strong figure with applied pigment and rising on a presentation stand, 36.5"h Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelto...

A South Pacific platter, exact use uncertain, with intriguing design of unusual aesthetic, using black and white abstractly on golden wood, having...

Singiti mask of the Dogon people, Mali West Africa, the superstructure of a long tall face that were nailed together, 50"l Provenance: Richard I.M...

A Mwai mask Papua New Guinea, thin and with perhaps 200 small shells, some human hair set into a clay pack atop the wood, a well carved frigate bi...

A large and beautifully shaped Micronesian coconut grater, with a serrated shell at the front for gauging and grating out the coconut's center mea...

A nicely carved and used wood drum without its skin top, still an attractive receptacle, Akan-speaking peoples, Ghana, often these fine Akan/Ashan...

Austral Islands paddle circa 1840, having incised decoration on presentation stand, 43"h Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del Re...

A feather box Maori New Zealand; 19th Century, Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del Rey, California, 24.5"l

A South Pacific canoe bailer, old and weathered, cracks, with an old label reading Northern New Hebrides, South Pacific, Provenance: Richard I.M. ...

A part of a boat's rigging of Trobriand Islands origin, with classic swirl design Incised, 19"l Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina...

A Papua New Guinea, probably late 19th or early 20th century, mask with hollow eyes and a hollowed-out carved back, v-shaped chin and round see-th...

Papua New Guinea helmet mask, used for ceremonies and dance, with a polychromed painted wood face, with blue, red and black pigment; a large bushy...

Vanuatu (formerly New Caledonia) Melanesia large and well carved Fernwood grade figure, used in rituals on Ambrym Island, the standing male figure...

A Fijian fine and large rootstalk club, having a fine patina of much handling, with traces of blue pigment at the curved end, 38"h

(lot of 15) Nkukhu,'of the Kuna (also called Cuna or Guna) Indians of Panama's San Blas Islands and neighboring coast, carved wooden dolls, good a...

(lot of 10) 'Nkukhu', of the Kuna (also called Cuna or Guna) Indians of Panama's San Blas Islands and neighboring coast, carved wooden dolls, most...

A Papua New Guinea standing figure, probably authentic, with abstract, repetitive layers surrounding the face and head, and with a reddish pigment...

Tabwa style African stool, with a maternity figure on the top and rising on three legs, 25"h, Provenance is the estate of Jean Pierre Hallet, Mali...

(lot of 2) Pair of Oceanic male and female carved wood dolls, with articulated limbs, 22"h Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del ...

Pair of Mies Van Der Rohe Brno style chairs, each having a sling leather seat, and rising on a chrome tubular frame, 31.5"h

Alaskan Kenai King Salmon mounted trophy, overall 18"h x 46"l

A pair of Modern white side chairs, each having a slated seat and back, and rising on a tubular chrome frame, 33"h x 17"x 19"d

(lot of 4) Cow hide rugs, 7'6" x 9'