A lock of hair cut from the head of former French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte shortly after his death sold for just over 15,350 dollar in an auction in New Zealand.The lock was bought by an unnamed collector in London, according to Hamish Coney, managing director of auctioneers Art Object.The hair, in a tightly-bound circle, was cut the morning after Napoleon's death on the Atlantic island of St Helena in 1821.Bidders from New Zealand, Lithuania, London, Hong Kong, US and France vied for the hair and about 40 other items related to Napoleon that sold for a total of almost 100,000 dollar at the Auckland auction.The collection was sold by the descendants of Denzil Ibbetson, a British Military Officer and artist who served on St Helena where Napoleon was detained by the British from 1815 until his death in 1821 aged 51.Ibbetson's diary, which sold for 7,800 dollar described conversations with Napoleon, who still harboured ambitions of invading Britain despite his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.