Head still for sale
NZPA staff correspondent London The sale of the head of a Maori chief will go ahead on Monday unless its owner, the Marquis of Tavistock, gives instructions to stop it, said Sotheby’s yesterday. The head is heavily mokoed with an open mouth revealing the front teeth and is estimated to sell for between £4OOO ($10,200) and £5OOO ($11,500). The auction catalogue says the head is mounted on a wood base with a label attached reading “A Chief’s head of the Notteebow tribe, East Cape.” A spokeswoman for Sotheby’s said that the New Zealand High Commission had approached them to try and get the head withdrawn from sale, but they sug-
gested it should approach the Marquis. “We have received no instructions from the Marquis that he wants the head withdrawn from the auction to date,” she said. “Unless we hear from him the sale will go ahead. “We are caught in rather an awkward position as obviously we do not want to offend anyone in New Zealand, but we do have a client to consider,” she said.
A High Commission official was unable to say if it had been in touch with the Marquis who is understood to have recently returned to London from holiday. The Auckland Committee on Racial Discrimination said it would send a telegram to Sotheby’s saying it deplored the auctioning of the Maori head, and requesting its return to the Maori tribe.
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