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LotNo.

Symbol

Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

1633

1897-1898 196pp plus eight large foldout maps and 26 photo-plates (the last detached) of natives & costumes, implements & weapons, housing & tattooing etc. Lieutenant-Governor William MacGregor reveals an ever-increasing interest in mining prospects, the expansion of exploration and comments on the finding of payable gold on the Gira River. Chief Judicial Officer Winter reports on a decade of administration of justice in BNG & F Manson Bailey, Queensland Government Botanist, presents 'Contributions to the Flora of [British] New Guinea'.

Grade A- (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6)

Estimate AU$250

SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1634

1898-1899 150pp plus 11 large foldout maps that comprise half the thickness & have contributed to the whole being largely loose-leaf, the front cover defective & some foxing. Lieutenant-Governor George Ruthven Le Hunte. Balance of trade is very positive: imports £52,170 & exports £68,496. Focus on the burgeoning mining industry continues & the need for a road from Tamata to the goldfields but "The local natives, as is usually the case, do not care & have no necessity to work".

Grade B (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$250

SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1635

1899-1900 196pp plus 4 tipped-in large foldout maps, largely detached but very fine. Lieutenant-Governor George Ruthven Le Hunte. "An order has been sent to England for a set of stamps...the Australian Colonies, & consequently the Possession, [need to] join the universal penny postage system...the only part [of the Empire] which has not done so". "The arrangement by which NSW Victoria & Queensland [the other Colonies had opted out] contributed £5000 a year each for ten years to the administration of BNG terminated in 1898". Includes reports re the Establishment of a Government Station at Cape Nelson and Visit to Inland Tribes.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$150.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1636

1903-1904 88pp plus four tipped-in plates of ancient artefacts discovered at Collingwood Bay. Administrator MH Moreton. Fewer reports & more emphasis on the statistics. For example, there were 274 village constables in 265 villages. The salary of the Lieut-Governor or, in his absence, the Administrator was £800pa + £200 allowance, compared with the Chief Judicial Officer who received £969.

Grade A (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$100

SOLD for AU$75.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1637

1904-1905 80pp with no maps & no illustrations. Again a high concentration on statistics. "The Yodda gold field [near Kokoda] is extensive, and rich in alluvial gold. It has not been exploited as energetically as one might have expected [due to] expense of living; difficulty of approach; hostile attitude of the natives".

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

SOLD for AU$75.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1638

1910-1911 220pp + six foldout maps of various sizes, the brief introduction by Lieut-Governor JHP Murray states "The principal event of the year was [MSC] Smith's exploration along the Kikori [River] in the Western District..." One-third of the party perished, "something quite unprecedented in Papuan exploration", and Murray concluded with only light irony that the venture was "disastrous".

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1639

1914-1915 160pp + ten foldout maps of various sizes, illustrated report "...the Technology of the Orokaiva Tribes of Northern Papua", & lengthy lists of native words & their English meanings. Lieut-Governor JHP Murray comments at length about World War I: "...Probably there is no part of the Empire where it is so difficult to realize [sic] that a state of war exists...about a twelfth of our [white] population either have gone or are going to the front [including one-third of the civil administration]...There were certainly no pro-Germans among the natives". He also refers to the lessened demand for labour & comments on the legal system folloowing the murder of two Europeans by natives.

Grade A- (Image1) (Image2) (Image3)

Estimate AU$250

SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1640

1915-1916 42pp including four pages of photos of native agriculture. Lieut-Governor JHP Murray comments "The scarcity of paper demands that the Annual Report...shall be as brief as possible". He speaks of efforts at 'pacification' of Fly Rivewr natives, of executions in Moresby, of "drought-stricken plains of the west" and "the facility with which [the natives] become unconscious on apparently the slightest provocation".

Grade B (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4)

Estimate AU$100

SOLD for AU$75.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1641

1916-1917 80pp including four pages - detached - of photos of native agriculture. Lieut-Governor JHP Murray comments "So many government officers have enlisted...about 50...nearly half of the whole service..." He also comments on the generally peaceful relations with the natives, and the shocking Muguru Ceremony marked by "an exchange of wives...and absolute promiscuity". Resident Magistrate EWP Chinnery's lengthy report of an explorative patrol north of Mount Yule is included, with extensive comment on culture & mores ("sexual immorality is rife"), inclusion of a comparative vocabulary of six tribal groups & a large fold-out map (detached).

Grade B (Image1) (Image2) (Image3)

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Estimate AU$150

SOLD for AU$115.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1642

1917-1918 100pp with most pages and the seven fold-out maps detached. Lieut-Governor JHP Murray comments on the replacement of the government launch wrecked in 1912, for which Australia allocated £25,000 but only £11,000 was expended (imagine that happening today!). Also, "the most important patrol...from Nepa to Morobe in German New Guinea...mostly through new country" plus a lengthy report of the expedition by WR Humphries. Other tidbits include advice of a new post office building at Moresby & more than 100 telephone lines. Hospital admissions included for phthysis, renal calculus, 'pyrexia of uncertain origin', syncope, kuhi-kuhi & 'malingering'! Further tribal vocabularies.

Grade B (Image1) (Image2) (Image3)

Estimate AU$150

SOLD for AU$115.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

Photographs & Paintings

LotNo.

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Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

1643

1900s (early) hand-coloured magic lantern glass slides including 'Mothers teaching their children to swim', 'The curious pie-bald natives of Hood's Bay' & 'A New Guinea Funeral - The widow painted black as mourning, following her dead husband to the grave'; also one photographic view 'In a Papuan Village, New Guinea' by Keystone View Co (USA), condition variable. (14) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12)

Estimate AU$500

SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1644

1884 (Oct-Dec) series of original albumen photographs (each about 28x23cm) taken during the expedition of the Australian Squadron to New Guinea, with the purpose of recording the British Annexation of Papua, mainly Fine/Very Fine. Provenance: Ex Thomas Knott, fleet surgeon aboard HMS 'Nelson'. [The photographer was the highly-regarded Australian-born Augustine Dyer who died on active service in France in 1917. A remarkable opportunity to acquire a quality group of historically important photographs that, with an estimate of less than $200 per photograph, is a bargain] (14) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15)

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Estimate AU$2,500

SOLD for AU$1,500.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1645

1943 'Air Strip, Kila, New Guinea' watercolour, (29x26cm) signed lower right, titled in ink on slip from original mat board mounted below image, old glue stains to margins, window mounted. [Ralph Malcolm Warner was a commercial artist. In 1943, he was appointed an official war artist for the RAAF, where his first mission was to record Australian operations against the Japanese in New Guinea] (Image1)

Estimate AU$750

SOLD for AU$575.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1646

1949 (circa) 'Natives, Kanana Ceremony, New Guinea', silver gelatin photograph (29x37cm) by Laurence Le Guay with his estate stamp on reverse, slight foxing to lower portion and minor silvering to right edge of image, window mounted. [Australian Laurence Craddock Le Guay set up his own studio in 1938. He saw war service as a RAAF photographer, and in the 1940s joined expeditions to North Australia, New Guinea and Antarctica. This is his most famous image, having been included in 'The Family of Man' exhibition that toured the world, attracting the largest crowds ever at a photographic exhibition. The kanana ceremony was a relationship ritual in which near-naked men & women were permitted contact with only their faces!] (Image1)

Estimate AU$2,500

SOLD for AU$1,900.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1647

1950s 'Ritual With Five New Guinea Men', oil painting on canvas, signed lower right, 36x29cm, crazing and slight surface loss, framed. [Bette Hays, née Passmore, lived in Papua New Guinea from 1950 to 1959 and then taught at Townsville Grammar School. Her work was exhibited in Australia and the UK] (Image1)

Estimate AU$600

SOLD for AU$460.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1648

1950s 'Family Group' oil painting on canvas by Bette Hays, signed lower right, 43x34cm, crazing and slight surface loss, framed. (Image1)

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Estimate AU$600

SOLD for AU$460.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1649

1965 'Highland Native [PNG]' oil painting on art board, signed lower left, 34x25cm, titled in ink on frame on reverse, minor soiling, framed. [Australian painter Paul Osborne Jones specialised in floral subjects] (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,200

SOLD for AU$900.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1650

1970 (circa) vibrant oil painting of a Highlands chieftain on composite board (49x39cm), signed "BWarmington" at lower-right, in a slightly larger wooden frame. (Image1)

Estimate AU$80

SOLD for AU$60.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

NEW GUINEA and PAPUA

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Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

1651

Range of stone implements from a large greenstone axe-head (H385xW95mm) to six small eating knives (?) with rattan bindings on the hafts. (16) (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$150.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1652

Stone implements apparently grinding stones, largest is L210xW150mm, plus a beautifully made & polished pestle (L140mm). (7) (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$150.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

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