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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 13, 2023 | Bonhams | New York | African and Oceanic Art | 4 | $****** - ****** | Superb Maori Bugle Flute, probably Taranaki, New Zealand |
other
41.3 cm (16.25 in)
Wood, pigment, paua shells, fine braided-flax binding
American Broadcasting Company (ABC), New York
Walt Disney Company, Burbank, California, acquired by corporate merger with the above
California Private Collection
Finely carved in two halves exactly fitted together and bound with superbly braided flax binding, the front sound hole with a delicately carved wheku face with paua shell-inlaid eyes.
"An instrument unique to Maori culture was the putorino , sometimes regarded as a trumpet and sometimes as a flute. The playing method is in doubt, partly because putorino became obsolete very soon after European contact. Despite their limitations as an instrument, they were very highly valued, if we are to judge by the amount of refined carving often invested in their decoration." (Starzecka, Dorota C., et. al., The Maori Collections of the British Museum , The British Museum Press, 2010, p. 62)
Cf. Ibid, fig. 522 for a very similar putorino in the British Museum (Inv. 1854.12-29.72) from South Taranaki dated to the 1830s-40s.
Superb Maori Bugle Flute, probably Taranaki, New Zealand
putorino
Wood, pigment, paua shells, fine braided-flax binding
Length 16 1/4in (41.2cm)
