*** | Mendi valley war shield (Worrumbi), Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea, oval form shield with central ridge, decorated with natural earth pigments. Twisted plant fibre carrying strap verso. Height 115 cm. Provenance: Estate of ray Hughes. | *** | |
*** | New Guinea large dance shield. Sepik River face carved tall shield with cane, double handle. Height 235 cm | *** | |
*** | Papua New Guinea Sepik River ceremonial paddle. Long thin hooked blade with decorative carvings to root of blade. Mid 20th century. Ex Elizabeth Pryce collection. Length 144 cm | *** | |
*** | Slender, early Spear-thrower, NT. Together with a large spear-thrower, N W Australia. Early 20th century. Provenance: ex Jim Haas collection (formerly head of Ethnographic Art department at Bonham's San Francisco), length 105 cm & 123 cm | *** | |
*** | Massim Figure, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea. Slight loss to nose. Height 48 cm | *** | |
*** | Fine Portland club, Victoria. With pinecone handle, & bulbous head, early 20th century. Rare artifact. Provenance: ex Jim Davidson collection Melbourne; ex collection South Australia, length 70 cm | *** | |
*** | Three Aboriginal engraving tools. Materials including. Wallaby jaw, incisor tooth; kangaroo sinew; & triodia resin, Western Desert tribe, collected, Warburton range, WA. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. | *** | |
*** | Assortment Papua New Guinea spears. Displayed in 3 glazed cases, various carved tips & incised shafts. Total 25 spears. 156 x 54 cm (2) 148 x 92 (1) (case sizes) | *** | |
*** | Two various Papua New Guinea Sepik food hooks. Including double sided crocodile & snake totem; & male figure surmounted by birds. Length 74 cm (longest) | *** | |
*** | Aboriginal bark painting. Northern Gulf area depicting rituals & hunting. Older bark, probably c.1950s. Damaged. Natural earth pigments on bark. 103 x 44 cm | *** | |
*** | Two large Papua New Guinea spirit masks. Relief carved with orange and grey ochre decoration. Washkuk. Height 90 cm. Each | *** | |
*** | Indonesian Lampung embroidered Tapis cloth, with metal thread. Late 19th-early 20th century. 105 x 1 35 cm | *** | |
*** | Two Aboriginal message sticks. Incised whorls and lines. Fine age cracks. Mid 20th century, Western Australia. Length 27 cm | *** | |
*** | Australian Aboriginal corroboree headpiece. Height 48 cm | *** | |
*** | Tasmanian Aboriginal Marineer shell necklace. Choker style with iridised pearl hue. Mid 20th century screw clasp. Length 49 cm | *** | |
*** | New Guinea Asmat board. Shield carved integral handle with typical figure, decorated finial. Height 157 cm | *** | |
*** | Aboriginal churinga, WA. Finely incised geometric decoration to one side, length 46 cm | *** | |
*** | Early ceremonial dance woomera, WA. Stoneworked incised decoration to one face. Small to edge, length 70 cm | *** | |
*** | Papua New Guinea Abelam carving. Male ancestor figure surmounted with a lizard. Old polychrome decoration. Ex Gabriella Roy gallery height 118 cm | *** | |
*** | Papua New Guinea Abelam yam mask. Older, woven cane with forehead band. Height 31 cm | *** | |
*** | Large Aboriginal Western Desert Dot-Painted Coolamon., carved beanwood & natural earth pigments, length 95 cm | *** | |
*** | Papua New Guinea Southern Highlands drum. Undecorated kundu with curved and, banded handles. Use patina. Height 59 cm | *** | |
*** | Two Australian Aboriginal boomerangs., carved wood, a returning boomerang with dark, age patina, length 67.5 cm; and lighter coloured hunting boomerang, length 60 cm | *** | |
*** | New Zealand school greenstone (pounamu) sculpture. Bust of a woman with flowing hair. Signed to base 'Uri / Zuri' 2001, NZ. Height 19 cm | *** | |
*** | 4 old Sepik figures. Collected just after World War II, height 37 cm (tallest) | *** | |
*** | Adu Au Nias figure. Carved wood crouching male with headdress, clutching a skull in each hand, height 53 cm | *** | |
*** | Papua New Guinea New Ireland Kap Kap. Turtle shell and shell pendant with long nassa shell string; plus other plain drilled shell. Length 82 cm (doubled string) | *** | |
*** | Four New Guinea Moka Kina Currency necklace. On woven fibre cords. (W20 cm | *** | |
*** | Indonesian Wayang painting. Javanese story painting depicting a large host. Ink and colour on cotton 134 x 156 cm. Provenance: Luciano Sita collection, Sydney. | *** | |
*** | Very early manufacture Returning boomerang. Carved in she oak (burr) Victoria. Ex Jim Davidson collection, Melbourne. Together with another boomerang, Mornington Island. Private collection South Australia, length 65 cm (2) | *** | |
*** | Yaka People Kholuka Mask, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Painted wood, plant fibre & feathers, human face surrounded by raffia, high rising cap surmounted by figure of a man holding a gun & topped with feathers. Height 95 cm. Provenance: Estate Of Ray… | *** | |
*** | Extremely rare ceremonial boomerang Central Australia. Covered with down & pigments, bush string connecting both ends. Ex Brokensha collection South Australia, length 51 cm | *** | |
*** | Fijian Ula throwing club. Early 20th century. Lobed head, age crack and patina length 39 cm | *** | |
*** | Fijian hardwood 'Gunstock' war club (kiakavo). Early example, 19th or early 20th century, length 84 cm | *** | |
*** | African carved hardwood Prestige sceptre. Probably Ovimbundu people, Angola. 19th/early 20th century, length 56 cm | *** | |
*** | Two bronze age objects. Includes a Celtic cloak pin; and a small Celtic bronze plaque, pierced with attachment points for sewing onto clothing. Ex Verne jewels, Sydney. Ex Chiswick Auctions, UK. Both circa 8th-2nd century Bce. Length 14 cm (pin) | *** | |
*** | Early 20th century Indonesian keris. Pamor blade with 8 luk. Bone hilt in the form of a Rakshasa demon. The mendak set with green and pink stones. Lacquered scabbard inset with agarwood. Length 62 cm | *** | |
*** | Papua New Guinea Asmat ceremonial shield. Lime & ochre coloured reserves on a tapering form with grass tassels to edges. Carved head anthromorphic figured spine leading to handle verso. Height 171 cm | *** | |
*** | Aboriginal grinding stone. Dug in Bundjalung country (Kyogle), c.2000, by farmer burying his dog. Provenance: provided. Length 16 cm | *** | |
*** | Aboriginal hardwood shield with Ochre decoration. Good old patina. Height 76 cm | *** | |
*** | African beaded Marriage piece. Glass and canvas 54 x 41 cm | *** | |
*** | Two New Guinea tusk and cane head pieces, collected in 1960s, Morobe province or Eastern Highlands | *** | |
*** | Southern Highlands war shield. Mendi Valley. Ovoid form with incised plain curling decoration. Rope handle. Papua New Guinea, 1970's. 111 x 46 cm | *** | |
*** | Three Aboriginal carved churingas. Length 43 cm (Longest) | *** | |
*** | Papuan Gulf crocodile totem. Length 248 cm | *** | |
*** | Papua New Guinea steering paddle or rudder. Carved figural handle, for a very large kula canoe, c1930. David Said Collection, length 253 cm | *** | |
*** | Old middle Sepik gable mask. Haus tambaran, c1950. David Said Collection, length 60 cm | *** | |
*** | Western Desert Leangle club. Full length linear groovings with traces of red ochre. Length 80 cm | *** | |
*** | 19th century Aboriginal parrying shield. Early shield with later rustic harbour bridge and faunal incised decoration. Vestigial ochre banding(?) under surface patina. Crude, incised signature verso. Length 55 cm | *** | |
*** | Tasmanian Aboriginal Marineer shell necklace. Older (cotton strung) strand of creamy iridescent shells. Length 56 cm (doubled) | *** | |
*** | 19th century Vanuatu (New Hebrides) war club. Pentecost Island club, with conical head. Fine dark patina, length 120 cm. Provenance: Pickles Auctions, the 1986 sale of Captain W.C. Thomson's Estate (lot 167). | *** | |
*** | Dayak Kalimantan baby carrier. Woven rattan with wooden base and beadwork exterior. Decorated with demon head, bells and teeth. Height 36 cm | *** | |
*** | Older Vanuatu Janus-Faced club. Carved hardwood with two opposing pairs of masks. Scarce Banks Island, Northern Vanuatu, artefact. Length 78 cm | *** | |
*** | New Guinea Asmat board. Carved polychrome board with age patina, height 133 cm | *** | |
*** | Papua New Guinea Sepik River mask. Mwai mask, modelled with clay set shells, pigs tusks and human hair. Length 66 cm | *** | |
*** | Aged boomerang, Queensland. Mildly curved hardwood with incised spindle decoration. Old mounting hole wax filled, length 76 cm | *** | |
*** | Aboriginal message stick, Tennant Creek. Anular incised decoration. Natural earth pigments, length 8m | *** | |
*** | Aboriginal message stick, WA Le Grange Bay. Incised geometric decoration to one side, length 83 cm | *** | |
*** | Three various stone blades. Including long, pointed, round edge basalt; greenstone axe; long pointed, with square edge grey sedimentary. Length 30 cm (longest) | *** | |
*** | Old Kanak bird head club, New Caledonia, length 64 cm | *** | |
*** | Early 20th century Massim mortar and pestle. Finely carved mortar with Janus heads and incised designs and old patina, 22 cm (mortar) 17 cm (pestle) | *** | |
*** | Early 20th century Massim dance club. Typical flattened scroll carved flat blade semi circular pommel with 3 tassel holes. Losses to edges. Length 54 cm | *** | |
*** | Cook Island pedestal adze. Bound adze on tapering chip carved base. Ruatangata Province. Height 52 cm | *** | |
*** | Assembly of Nias ancestral figures. Twelve old carved softwood adu siraha in seated poses. Remnants of grey paint. Age losses and patination. Height 29 cm | *** | |
*** | Papua New Guinea Highlands 'Kukukuku' club with fibre binding, length 82 cm | *** | |
*** | Five various bone daggers. One, cassowary bone dagger, Sepik river region of Papua New Guinea Highlands, collected prior to World War II (35 cm). Two, engraved (30 cm & 34 cm) and, two carved & engraved (39 cm), good patina, early 20th century, Sepik… | *** | |
*** | Canoe adze blade, upper fly river, Papua New Guinea. Collected 1937. Length 28 cm. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. | *** | |
*** | Highly polished Maori New Zealand stone axe, adze or other tool. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. Length 23 cm | *** | |
*** | Five ground edge Maori New Zealand stone axes or adzes from the Fred Smith. Collection. Collection Dr John Raven, Perth. | *** | |
*** | Papua New Guinea Sepik river carved Birdman totem. On carved wood stand (cracked, as inspected). Height 96 cm (total) | *** | |
*** | Sepik carving. An early, pre 1960s carving of a woman from the village of Kambot on the Keram river,Papua New Guinea as purchased by Morley in the early 70s, with its original purchase label from the Argyle arts centre. Wood carving. 30 x 2 0 x 13 cm | *** | |
*** | African carved head. Long high-browed face with dentated open mouth. Stylised decoration in ochres. Old patination; with stand. Provenance: Collection Sir James & Lady Cruthers, Perth. Height 36 cm. (total) | *** | |
*** | Tabua whale's tooth necklace. Remnants of original cord. Length 14 cm | *** | |
*** | Two various Western Pacific clubs. Cogged head throwing club, and ovoid form beater. Both have age and use patination. Length 50.5 cm | *** | |
*** | Papua New Guinea carved dance mask. Ramu river. Older charred interior patina. Length 48 cm | *** | |
*** | Papua New Guinea Drowning woman Kwoma figure. Carved recumbent figure with ochre decoration. Height 85 cm | *** | |
*** | Two Papua New Guinea Massim lime Spatulas. Height 29 cm and. Height 31 cm | *** | |
*** | Trobriand ceremonial shield, intricately carved, stained and limed piece showing much use patination | *** | |
*** | New Guinea stone club, collected mid 20th century, diamond form stone head with woven cane binding on hardwood handle, evidence of much use. Probably Kukukuku, splitting to shaft | *** | |
*** | Aboriginal ceremonial spear L 150 cm | *** | |
*** | 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… | *** | |
*** | Early Aboriginal club. Fine hardened tip to a slightly bulbous head, tapering to a notched grip. Use patina. Length 79 cm | *** | |
*** | Aboriginal Western Desert boomerang. Full lenth linear grooving, red ochre patina, length 64 cm | *** | |
*** | Tiwi Islands carved figure. Carved ironwood goose in white ochre and cross hatched wings. Height 49 cm | *** | |
*** | Aboriginal north Queensland spear thrower. Elongated oval haft with bi-valve, handle and resin finished wooden peg. Length 73 cm | *** | |
*** | Cameroon Bamileke buffalo mask. Carved wood with ochre pigments. Height 56 cm | *** | |
*** | Coolamon. two ochre stenciled handprints. Possibly from north Western Australia, height 57 cm | *** | |
*** | Papua New Guinea crocodile Jawbone dagger. Early Asmat dagger with corded handle decorated with human hair and Job's tears. Patina suggests much use over long period. Length 36 cm | *** | |
*** | Papua New Guinea Sepik Spiritual group. Carved woman birthing a mythical two-headed beast (crocodile and serpent). Shell, clay and human hair decoration. Height 82 cm | *** | |
*** | Artist unknown New Guinea, New Guinea tapa cloth, Popondetta, Oro provence. 91 x 53 cm | *** | |
*** | Didgeridoo. Various animal totems. Acquired early 1980s from Wesley or Central Methodist Mission, Sydney, ochres on hardwood, length 126 cm | *** | |
*** | Aboriginal painted Coolamon. Acrylic on wood length 62 cm | *** | |
*** | Large dance mask, Congo, Africa, height 51 cm | *** | |
*** | New Guinea Sepik ancestor figure. Standing male figure incorporating another. Clay, shell, cane, fur and fibre decoration. Height 122 cm | *** | |
*** | Papua New Guinea Washkuk carved figure. Older Nokwi fertility figure in grey and lime pigments. Age splits and patina. Height 86 cm | *** | |
*** | Two Vanuatu Island war clubs. Each with tapering leaf form heads. Length 97 cm, and 112 cm | *** | |