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Auction House:
Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.
Number of lots recorded:50
Lots with images:50
Prices available:50
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LotDescriptionPriceImage
*** A carved timber crocodile head and figured totem, Papua New Guinea, mid 20th century, (2 items), 42 cm and 36 cm ***
*** A tribal mask, carved wood, shell, tusk and fibre with natural earth pigments, Wewak, Papua New Guinea, mid 20th century 53 cm ***
*** An ancestral figure, carved wood, hair, shell and fibre with remains of ochre finish, Papua New Guinea, 46 cm high ***
*** Fijian rifle stock club, Papua New Guinea bows, arrows, drum and harpoon, 20th century, club 63 cm long ***
*** Accumulation of antique hand tools, 19th and early 20th century, mallet 33 cm high ***
*** An African tribal headdress, carved wood with earth pigment decoration, Democratic Republic of Congo, 118 cm wide ***
*** A Samoan paddle club and a spear, (2 items), 101 and 134 cm long. ***
*** A fine carved wooden crocodile ornament with shell eyes, Papua New Guinea, 20th century, 140 cm long ***
*** A tribal pick, carved palmwood, natural fibre and hardwood, Papua New Guinea, 20th century, 77 cm high ***
*** Clark, Thomas Blake Omai, first Polynesian Ambassador to England [San Francisco: the Colt press, 1940]. 4to. Cloth spine, bark paper over boards. (IV), 114, (1) pages. One of 500 copies. An account of Omai's visit to England in 1774 with Captain cook and… ***
*** An ancestral mask, carved wood and natural fibre with feather fringe, Biwat river, Papua New Guinea, circa 1960, 53 cm high overall ***
*** A cassowary bone dagger with shell clay and hair decoration, Yuat river, Papua New Guinea, early to mid 20th century, 34 cm long ***
*** A ridge finial, fired clay with painted decoration, Aibom village, Cambri lake, middle Sepik River, Papua New Guinea, mid 20th century, 39 cm high ***
*** Headdress and body ornaments, cassowary feather and fibre, Torres Strait and south coast of Papua New Guinea, early to mid 20th century, (4 items) ***
*** [New Guinea] Smallhorn, Jacinta 'The Binanderean Languages of Papua New Guinea: Reconstruction and Subgrouping', [The Australian National University, 2011], 466 pp., bibliography. Soft cover. Also, 'New Guinea Highlands - Art from the Jolika Collection'… ***
*** Conch shell horn, Pacific Islands, 19th century, 34 cm long. ***
*** A woven cane headdress, carved wooden statue and feather dance ornament, Papua New Guinea, (3 items), 34 cm, 48 cm and 80 cm long ***
*** A tribal drum, carved and painted wood, Pacific Islands, 20th century, 111 cm high ***
*** Baba helmet mask, woven fibre with ochre decoration, Maprik, East Sepic river, Papua New Guinea, 36 cm high ***
*** Spirit figure, carved wood with remains of painted finish, Sepik River, Papua New Guinea, 21 cm high ***
*** Carved boab nut, ochre picture, two Aboriginal dot paintings, Japanese print, printers' plate of an Australian bush scene, and print of a mother and child, (7 items), the boab nut16 cm high overall ***
*** Sago pot, carved wood, Papua New Guinea origin, 44 cm high ***
*** A Polynesian greenstone axe head with remains of collection notation (illegible), together with a tribal mask, painted woven fibre and feather, Papua New Guinea origin, (2 items), the axe head 15.5 cm long ***
*** A tribal headrest, carved wood, African origin, 21 cm high, 20 cm wide ***
*** Two carved boab nuts with Australian animals in landscape, Western Australian origin, 20th century, 10 cm and 11 cm high ***
*** A carved timber crocodile head and figured totem, Papua New Guinea, mid 20th century 42 cm and 36 cm ***
*** Three tribal swords, shark tooth and woven fibre, Gilbert Island (Kiribati), 20th century, largest 60 cm high ***
*** A tribal totem, carved wood, copper and shell with painted finish, African origin, 85 cm high ***
*** Nauru & Pacific Islands Artefacts including baskets, shell bead necklaces and animal trap ***
*** A zoomorphic mask, carved wood, metal and shell, East African origin, 57 cm high ***
*** A Fijian turtle kava dish with lid, carved wood and mother of pearl, late 20th century, 61 cm long ***
*** Tribal statue, ornament and pottery vase, Papua New Guinea, Admiralty Islands, (3 items), the largest 36 cm high ***
*** Dyak pipe, African carving, Maori pumice carving and a Japanese folk art statue, 20th century, (4 items), the largest 40 cm high ***
*** A spear thrower and a flute stopper, carved wood, bamboo, feather, shell, hair and fibre, Papua New Guinea, the larger 101 cm high ***
*** Dog's tooth arm band, shell arm band and a shell and woven fibre belt ornament, Papua New Guinea, (3 items), the belt 100 cm long ***
*** A tribal figure carved wood, Sepik River, Papua New Guinea, 20th century, 43 cm high ***
*** A tribal storage vessel, carved wood and cane, North African origin, 38 cm high ***
*** An African drum, carved wood, hide membrane and polychrome pigments, East African origin, 37 cm high, 25 cm diameter ***
*** A tribal mask, carved wood with remains of colour decoration, Papua New Guinea, 85 cm high ***
*** Kudu antler piece (interior), African origin, 64 cm long ***
*** A Swazi headrest, carved wood, Swaziland, African origin, 14 cm high, 45 cm wide ***
*** An earthenware cooking bowl with incised decoration, Papua New Guinea origin, 21 cm high ***
*** A tribal mask, carved and lacquered wood, African origin, 29 cm high ***
*** A calabash stand, carved wood fabric and fibre, North African origin, 90 cm high ***
*** Decoy duck, Pacific Islands tapa cloth, Egyptian alabaster vase, figural statue, Spanish bowling ball, and a Jane Pinkney watercolour of a mouse, (6 items), the statue 34 cm high ***
*** Figurine selection: comprising metal figure of a West African native with flexible coiled-wire neck and limbs, height 12 cm; 'Dismal Desmond' celluloid dalmatian dog (missing tail), pull-out tape measure, height 4.5 cm; Tri-ang/Wakouwa wooden dog… ***
*** A tribal drum, carved hardwood, Papua New Guinea, 20th century, 74 cm wide ***
*** 'Advance Australia, souvenir of Australia, Duke of York, 1927' boomerang, 41 cm wide ***
*** Maori warrior statue, carved wood and paua shell,20th century, 39 cm high ***
*** A head ornament, fired clay, Yuat river, Papua New Guinea, mid 20th century, 22 cm high ***