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Estate & Collector — Davidson Auctions

Auction House:Davidson AuctionsNumber of lots recorded:415
Sale Title:Estate & CollectorLots with images:414
Auction Location:SydneyPrices available:307
Date:24-Jun-2018
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Papua New Guinea steering paddle or rudder. Carved figural handle, for a very large kula canoe, c1930. David Said Collection, length 253 cm
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Western Pacific spear. Malekula ceremonial spear. Terminating with Janus head and four prongs. Vanuatu. David Said Collection, length 137 cm
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Old Aripa hunting charm. Early 20th century, Koriwari river. Reference: figure 24, p.28, Kaufmann, Corewori, Magic Art from the rain Forest, Crawford house Publishing, 2003. David Said Collection, length 122 cm
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Javanese prow decoration. Tall carved decoration for an old Proa or fishing boat, Madura, Java. Polychrome Cockerell form. David Said Collection, height 157 cm
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Two Western Pacific splashboards. Old used carved board, including Gawa Island (Louisiade Archipelago); Huon Gulf: and Kirawina (Massim). David Said Collection, length 53 cm (longest)
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Old middle Sepik gable mask. Haus tambaran, c1950. David Said Collection, length 60 cm
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Two Papua New Guinea canoe carvings, including Murik Lakes canoe prow (91 cm); latmul crocodile head prow, middle Sepik (45 cm); and Wanamo float connective carving (62 cm). David Said Collection.
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Gogodala Tonaga ceremonial basket hook. The clan symbol, suli, the python, devouring a clan ancestor, with the shank terminated in a hornbill head, (reference: Crawford a L, 'Aida-life and Ceremony of the Gogoloda,' p.362 #423). David Said Collection, length 100 cm
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Gogodala Ligale dance mask. Aramiah river, Papua New Guinea. Split cane, ochre and seed decoration. Attached to the head, the dancer looks through the 'Mouth', David Said Collection, length 54 cm
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Nepalese mask. Shaman's mask with animal fur beard and hair. Use patina. David Said Collection, length 39 cm
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Highlands Axes and polychrome shield. two various cane bound stone axes and polychrome shield with medial line, length 130 cm (shield)
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Two Papua New Guinea Abelam artefacts. Small Utmandji initiation board Collected by medical officer David S Johnston c1960; and small hornbill. David Said Collection, length 74 cm (board)
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Papua New Guinea Utmandji board. three dimensional initiation ceremony board, Abelam carved for inner chambers of a Haus Tamberan for an initiation ceremony. Collected by medical officer David S Johnston c1960, reference: Fred Gerrits - the Haus Tambaran at Bongiorno. David Said Collection, length 99 cm
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Two various Melanesian canoe Paddles, including lake Sentani man's paddle (carved); leaf shaped river paddle; and Trobriands paddle with reinforced tip. All old and used. David Said Collection, length 197 cm (longest)
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Pr mid 20th century wooden architectural Elements. Carved Janus ram's heads, Burma or Laos c1940. (note: these can support a glass coffee table top). Losses, weathering and repairs. David Said Collection.
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Large West Timor Granary door. Relief carving of the crop fertility goddess, crowned with crescent moon. David Said Collection, length 117 cm
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Western Pacific ceremonial war e. Espirito Santo Island, Vanuatu, feast preparation flat mortar and pounder. David Said Collection, length 107 cm (mortar)
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Large Abelam ancestor figure. Carved for a Haus Tambarn, Papua New Guinea. The visible tongue is usually considered an indication that the piece was made for ritual use. David Said Collection, height 102 cm
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Papua New Guinea carved post. Kwoma Yina Koma Minja figure. David Said Collection, length 129 cm
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Borneo Beaded baby carrier. Figure beaded cloth on tiny wood based form. David Said Collection, height 37 cm
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Arussi African headrest. Decorated with brass pendant beads, Ethopia. David Said Collection, height 20 cm
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Yangoru, Boiken Talipon Bride Price. Woven and painted cane mask on a large conus shell segment. David Said Collection.
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Western Pacific carved mortar. Large betel nut mortar resting on opposed figures, c1930, Trobriands Island. David Said Collection, height 23 cm
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Old feather dance headdress. Wai Wai people, Guyana, Central America. Braided trade cloth string and parrot feathers. David Said Collection.
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Papua New Guinea Sepik Big man's ceremonial pig Killing apron. This ritual object contains 49 pig tails. These aprons are often rented out at a high cost to feast givers who do not have their own. David Said Collection, length 50 cm
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Head of a Nambugi Nevembur Society funerary spirit. Overmodeled clay with boars tusks, Malekula, Vanuatu. David Said Collection, height 28 cm
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West Papua lake Sentani bowl. Resting on two arched human figures. David Said Collection, length 37 cm
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Two Australian Aboriginal artefacts, including fluted club; woman's club and digging stick; and woomera (spear thrower). David Said Collection, length 71 cm (digging stick)
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Two Papua New Guinea head and hair ornaments. Cassoway feather folding head dress, Papua New Guinea Western Highlands (AAG); old cassowary feather tuft; and rattan forked headdress. David Said Collection.
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Two Island Melanesia ceremonial Artworks, including opposed bird dance stick, Malaklula, Vauatu; and late 20th century initiation mask with bark cloth hood, Northern Solomons. David Said Collection, height 45 cm (mask)
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Tiwi Kwajakor dance hat. Mornington Peninsula, human hair, bamboo, ochres, cassowary feathers. David Said Collection, height 55 cm
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Two early 20th century Tibetan wooden hand cymbals. Carved mythical creature handles. David Said Collection, length 26 cm
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Papua New Guinea old archer's shoulder shield. Madang Province.These small hardwood shields were suspended under the armpit to protect the ribs, abdomen and vital organs as the bowman was standing sideways to aim. Reference p.55 'Shield of Melanesia,' Beran and Craig Eds, OAS. David Said Collection, length 39 cm (shield)
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Old bamboo and Basketry Quiver. Finely woven cane and decorated with cowrie shells, Laos. David Said Collection, length 57 cm
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Five Papua New Guinea ceremonial body Adornments, including fafona pectoral - egg cowries, bush string, nassa shell, pigments; baler shell segment neck ornament; two beaded headbands; and 1920s Western Highlands woven armband, ex Kingsford Smith collection. All with use patina. David Said Collection.
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Two New Guinea bird form Prows, including long beaked Friarbird (piu) with ochre pigments, Walamo village Papua New Guinea. Reference: Hermione Frankel, Canoes of Walamo; and old polychrome Humboldt Bay canoe prow with remnant pigments. David Said Collection, height 38 cm (largest)
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Papua New Guinea Abelam bone dagger. Bird claw terminal, ex Leo Fleischmann collection. Dagger inscribed LF/D51. (Fleischmann was a long time associate of the late Senta Taft Henry of Galleries Primatif, Sydney). David Said Collection, length 31 cm
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Hunter's Status Neckband. Many Muitjak or Barking deer tusks. Threaded on black cotton braided band. David Said Collection, length 40 cm
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Two money Magic Charms. A Somp (oyster shell fragment, mounted on a wooden kina shell crescent); wealth attractants including mama somp with a proven shell fragment mounted on a kina shell. Use patina. David Said Collection, W18g
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Four various West Timorese traditional lime containers, including buffalo horn with inscribed ancestor lineage diagrams; coconut shell; engraved bamboo tube with lineage diagrams; and gourd. David Said Collection.
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Papua New Guinea short Abelam bone dagger. Parrot head motifs, worn in the armband or the hair. Use patina. David Said Collection, length 19 cm
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Two old Massim bone lime Spatulas. Terminals decorated in the kula style. Mid 20th century. one with trade beads, seeds, red plastic discs (cut from a bucket), representing spondylus shell discs; the other with trade beads cowries and shell fragments. David Said Collection, length 26 cm (longest)
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Two Papua New Guinea Highlands large shell Pectorals, including large polished baler shell segment; and red stained kina shell on a hard woven neckband. David Said Collection, length 23 cm (baler shell)
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Two Massim mainland lime spatulas. Intricate geometric motifs, Collingwood Bay. David Said Collection, length 43 cm (longest)
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Two Papua New Guinea Highlands carved bark belts, including early 20th century wide bark belt, Melpa people, Mt Hagen area, Southern Highlands; and early 20th century narrow bark belt with red pigment. David Said Collection, diameter 30 cm (largest)
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Sumba silver necklace. Grooms wedding necklace. Brass crescent with a punched design of crocodiles and a turtle, hangs from a thick cord of finely woven silver wire. David Said Collection, 88 cm (chain)
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Antique hand woven Coca bag. C1900, Bolivia. Provenance: ex Leonard Coyne collection. The Collection # HD-172 on a hand sewn tabe inside the bag. David Said Collection, 20 x 20 cm
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Seven West Timor buffalo horn spoons. Old, domestically used with decorative carving. David Said Collection.
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Two Philippines tribal Hats. Mid 20th century including small Kalinga sulpak woven pillbox hat with shell earpieces; and small Bontoc suklang hat with boar tusks. David Said Collection, diameter 16 cm (largest)
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Trobriands collection. Group of artefacts including Trobriands finger drum c1960; two mid 20th century bracelets in Kula style; and assorted mortars and lime sticks including a pre-World War II canoe shaped mortar.
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Two old Xhosa beaded pipes. South Africa. David Said Collection.
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Large Mbira Thumb piano. 22 keys and bottle cap vibrato. Zimbabwe. David Said Collection, 25 x 24 cm
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Two Papua New Guinea Abelam miniature yam masks. one woven and one carved in light timber with remnant pigments. Age and use patination. David Said Collection, height 17 cm (wooden)
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Two old Xhosa pipes. two with metal decoration, South Africa. Used. David Said Collection.
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Five various antique brass items, including antique brass powder measure for muzzle loaders; three antique Berber brass amulet holders, collected by a German diplomat in Ethiopia; and small brass pectoral, Naga headhunting symbol. David Said Collection.
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Two Papua New Guinea old Abelam hunting Whistles. Early, incised coconut shell. David Said Collection.
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Early Javanese rice Harvesting knives. three various 'Ani' with carved handles. Use patina. Early 20th century. David Said Collection.
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19th century Burmese puppet of Govt official. Correctly strung and in working order. The detailed carving, the sumptuous clothing and the complex stringing, all place it in the period 1870-1890. Reference; collection of the Brighton and Hove Museum, UK. David Said Collection, height 78.5 cm
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Large Abelam Hornbill display board. Spirit house decoration. David Said Collection.
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Antique folding coconut Grating stool. Zanzibar, Tanzania. Carved weave pattern. Use patina. David Said Collection.
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African Womans skirt. Large beaded back skirt for a young married woman, Tonga tribe, Zimbabwe. David Said Collection, 40 x 67 cm
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Dayak crop Protection mask. Carved form of a boar. This mask has an old village repair. Reference: 'Masks of Kalimantan,' Michael Heppel, Indonesian Art Society, Melbourne, 1992. David Said Collection, length 31 cm
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Two early 20th c Nepalese artefacts, including an aged kukri knife with an inticately carved sheath; and wooden milking bucket with a lizard handle. Both with age and use patina. David Said Collection.
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Two Nepalese masks, including beaten metal and painted demon; and yellow painted smiling wooden mask. David Said Collection.
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Four Balinese artefacts, including two pyrographed weaving shuttles; and two wayang kulit shadow puppets depicting raksasa or monsters in the Ramayana chronicle. Early 20th century.
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Malagan Wanis funerary mask. Features snake and pilot fish clan motifs, Tabar Island, Bismarck Archipelago. Provenance: ex David Baker collection, ex New Guinea gallery, Sydney. David Said Collection, height 71 cm
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Trobriand Kula canoe Splashboard. Pierced and carved with small figure to crest, height 77 cm
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Two various Asmat ceremonial spears. Pierced and serrated blades with ornamented butts. David Said Collection, length 260 cm
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Two early Melanesian clubs, including a classic Tolai club of plain form, early 20th century, New Britain; and Bena Bena (Kuka Kuka) club with flat, round stone disk head, early 20th century. David Said Collection.
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Papua ritual club in the form of a Hornbill. Gulf district. Reference: crocodile and Cassowary. David Said Collection, height 51 cm
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Abelam figural Status axe. Ceremonially used as a body decoration and placed over the shoulder, with the blade pointing backwards and downwards. Provenance: ex Elizabeth Pryce collection. David Said Collection, length 60 cm
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Ceremonial Tjubuan (Chunwan) mask. Pentecost Island, Vanuatu 20th century. The Tjubuan ceremony of south Pentecost was a fertility rite benefitting both yams and humans, and these distinctive masks were hand held by non-dancing participants. David Said Collection, height 48 cm
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Two old Melanesian canoe ornaments. Massim canoe mast attachment in the shape of a bird, used to tie off the sail. Utian Island, Lousade Archipelago; old Humboldt Bay canoe prow with its carved gunwales; and mudfish canoe prow, lower Sepik or Chambri Lakes. David Said Collection.
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Two Dayak hand woven Pua Kumba cloths. Various designs, 220 x 102 cm (largest)
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Two Papua New Guinea Abelam woven miniature yam masks. David Said Collection, height 20 cm (largest)
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African Womans apron. Stiff beaded apron for an unmarried Ndebele woman, South Africa. David Said Collection, 36 x 43 cm
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Western Pacific pig Killing Hammer. Grade ceremonial hammer (Atata) c1950, Ambrym, Vanuatu. David Said Collection, length 60 cm
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Early 20th century Indonesian puppets. two prs of old wayang golek rod puppets, probably characters from the Javanese folk tale of Prince Panji. David Said Collection, height 55 cm (average)
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African hand Loomed cloths, Ghana, including green background, corded design with red motif; and blue background, white strips with oval lozenge. David Said Collection.
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Papua New Guinea highland Headwear. Early used Huli wig decorated with bird and paradise skin, plus four possum tail hairpins. David Said Collection, length 67 cm
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Papua New Guinea Highlands wig. Hair wig with carved wood and cane bird form hairpin. David Said Collection, height 58 cm
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Old Segow puppet. Articulated woman pounding corn, Bamana, Mali. Complete but requires restringing. David Said Collection, height 58 cm
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Thick Hide Gashan Parrying shield, Somalia. Impressed annular decoration with centre boss and applied hide handle. David Said Collection, diameter 34 cm
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Western Pacific spirit Figue. Ritual sculpture of an ancestral spirit created for the annual Tamar ceremony, Ambrym, Vanuatu. Provenance: ex David Baker collection, height 85 cm (incl. Stand)
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Two various African Axes, including Songye copper status axe, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Mossi fighting axe with rawhide binding, Burkina Faso (upper Volta); and Shona hand axe with engraved blade, Zimbabwe. All have use patina. David Said Collection, length 100 cm (longest)
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1950s Ndebele beaded blanket. Old, use wear. David Said Collection.
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Full Fijian Masi Kesa. Bark cloth skirt with tassels, (wound many times around the waist by men of high status). David Said Collection, length 363 cm
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Central African figural Smoking pipe. Well carved kneeling figure with a geometrically incised bowl. Aged patina from use. Possibly Mangbetu culture, DRC. David Said Collection, height 22 cm
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Aboriginal pink quartz knife. Long knapped flake with resin pommel, length 19 cm
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Aboriginal Pointing bone. Long marsupial bone with finely worked flattened pointed tip. Age and use patina.
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Two various Aboriginal bone implements, including resin ended awl, ceremonial bone with 6 relief dots. Age and use patina.
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Aboriginal churinga. Central Australian, long pointed oval stone with annular, tracks and pecked surface. Old inventory no', 95' centre of one side, length 36 cm
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Various Aboriginal stone implements, including dark stone scraper, limestone grinder, various small knapped blades and orthoceras fossils.
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Aboriginal axe. Traditionaly constructed axe, with resin set stone blade in bent wooden handle with hair binding. Resin losses and blade now detached. Together with stone sphere.
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Two various Aboriginal woven items, including small string dilly bag; woven reed basket with plaited handle; kangaroo hide plaited belt with old Hermmansburg tag.
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Two various Papua New Guinea artefacts. Carved male and female figures (damage to male); and shell necklace, height 40 cm (figures)
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Two early 20th century Collingwood Bay Headrests. Used by women to protect their elaborate hairstyles. Provenance: ex David Baker collection, Sydney. David Said Collection, height 14 cm (both)
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Two various carved figures and box. Chinese rosewood god with fish (small loss to foot); West African female; and lidded oval box, height 22 cm (Chinese God)
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Two Papua New Guinea Penis Sheaths. Highlands sheaths made from gourd ends, with split cane and fibre bindings, length 23 cm
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Oceanic upper arm ornament. Woven string and bamboo. David Said Collection, height 26 cm
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