*** | A parrying shield Qauata, San Christobel, Solomon Islands, carved with an ancestral figure at the base of the handle., 128 cm long. Provenance: Sotheby's, Melbourne, Aboriginal & Oceanic Art, 15-16 November 2005, Lot 17, Sold Hammer $8,500 | *** | |
*** | A dance club, Kikavo, Fiji, finely carved throughout, with deep glossy patina, 115 cm long. Provenance: Sotheby's, Melbourne, Aboriginal & Oceanic Art, 15-16 November 2005, Lot 26, Sold Hammer $5,500 | *** | |
*** | Artist Unknown (Tiwi Islands), Tutuni, Pukumani Pole, natural earth pigments on carved ironwood, 248 cm high | *** | |
*** | Artist Unknown (Tiwi Islands), Tutuni, Pukumani Pole, natural earth pigments on carved ironwood, 254 cm high | *** | |
*** | Artist Unknown (Tiwi Islands), Pukumani Pole (Pelican), natural earth pigments on carved ironwood, 279 cm high | *** | |
*** | An orators stool, Sepik Region, Papua New Guinea, a figural ceremonial stool carved from Kwila wood decorated with applied clay, money cowrie shells, woven fibre and vegetable pigment paint, 226 cm high. Other Notes: This artifact is known as an Orator's… | *** | |
*** | A Barramundi totem, Central Arnhem land, natural earth pigments on wood, 44 cm high, 74 cm wide, 8.5 cm deep | *** | |
*** | A small orator's stool, Middle Sepik River Region, Papua New Guinea, the ancestral figure with applied clay patterning the enlarged face and cowrie shell eyes, bordered by money cowrie shells, feathers protruding from the head and chin, woven rattan… | *** | |
*** | Two convict love tokens, copper, late 18th century, both coins smoothed, the larger engraved with decorative initials and a motto: 'when this you see * remember me' 1772, and to the reverse, a ribbon and floral decorated shield enclosing the initials,… | *** | |
*** | Two large Massim lime spatulas, Trobriand Islands, the largest 83 cm long | *** | |
*** | An African female figure, wooden, 28 cm high | *** | |
*** | An aboriginal woven pandanus mat, reputedly woven by a wife of David Malangi, 135 x 125 cm, woven area, 2 metres diameter (approx) with fringing, Provenance, Gift of the weaver, Ramingining 1979 | *** | |
*** | A group of three antique and vintage Zulu Assegai and Iklwa, Southern Africa, throwing and stabbing spears each with a wooden shaft joined to forged iron slender leaf shaped spear heads, wrapped at the joins with plaited reeds, one with finely wrapped… | *** | |
*** | A middle Sepik River 'Yetchen' ancestral figure carved in honour of a crocodile hunter, Papua New Guinea, 202 cm high | *** | |
*** | A large carved Abelam totem, Maprik Hills, Papua New Guinea, 170 cm long | *** | |
*** | A carving of a catfish, Middle Sepik river, Papua New Guinea, circa 1975, carved by Gomara from the Middle Sepik river village of Agriman, used for fertility ceremonies associated with fish in the Sepik River and housed in the village spirit house, 197 cm… | *** | |
*** | A Pacific Islander carved hardwood club, circa 1900, 41 cm long | *** | |
*** | An early Massim lime spatula, Papua New Guinea, 39 cm long | *** | |
*** | A large male ancestral figure, Upper Sepik River, of standing form, the bald painted face with a pointed nose and flaring nostrils above stylized bared pointed teeth, his upper arms carved with horned armbands, the chest with a raised breastplate, wearing… | *** | |
*** | A ceremonial paddle, Trobriand Islands, 153 cm high | *** | |
*** | A pair of lower Sepik canoe boards, with carved and incised butterfly decoration, 133 x 35 cm (each) | *** | |
*** | An African Mumuye male figure, sculptured wood, 36 cm high | *** | |
*** | Two early carved wood bowls, Vanuatu, one with an original sennit binding repair, the largest 78 cm long | *** | |
*** | A New Guinea, middle Sepik wild pig, woven sculpture with textiles, feathers, straw, shells and paint, 29 cm high, 65 cm wide, 34 cm deep | *** | |
*** | An African Akan Slingshot, sculptured wood, 20 cm high | *** | |
*** | Two early carved wunda shields, Western Australia, the largest 80 cm long | *** | |
*** | A Maori tiki motif walking stick together with two Oceanic style staffs, the maori stick with paua shell inlay, the longest 90 cm | *** | |
*** | An African Baule figure, sculptured wood, 18.5 cm high | *** | |
*** | A Cia Manna 'Tamoa' porcelain figurine of a Balinese dancer, Italian, 1940-1950, with factory mark, signature, title and edition N.637 to base, 44 cm high | *** | |
*** | A New Guinea, middle Sepik large male figure, wood, textile and shell, 194 cm high | *** | |
*** | A New Guinea, middle Sepik ancestral mask, natural earth pigments, wood, shell, feather and textile, 59 cm high, 50 cm wide, 29 cm deep | *** | |
*** | A New Guinea, middle Sepik Kumbiamu figure, natural earth pigments, wood and shell, 114 cm high | *** | |
*** | Tiwi Island, Pukumani pole, natural earth pigments on carved wood, 70 cm high | *** | |
*** | A Queensland 'pineapple headed' club together with a bulbous headed club, the club with incised burnt decoration 83.5 cm long | *** | |
*** | A collection of Massim lime spatulas, Trobriand Islands, comprising six pieces with figural and pierced handles, the largest 40 cm long | *** | |
*** | A large flying fox cult spirit figure, possibly Iatmul, Middle Sepik River, New Guinea, with woven fibre, bead, cowrie shell and feather adornments, figural basket hook to base, 167 cm high, 68 cm wide | *** | |
*** | A collection of eight Congolese vintage handwoven Kuba Shoowa cloths, 19th century, 140 cm long, 120 cm long and 70 cm long (six) | *** | |
*** | A middle Sepik, New Guinea male ceremonial figure, painted wood, shell and textile, 156 cm high | *** | |
*** | A large Washkuk totem together with a painted and pierced spirit figure, both Sepik River, New Guinea, the totem 304 cm long | *** | |
*** | A Balinese rosewood carved sculpture of Hanuman and snake, the ornately carved Hindu monkey god fighting a snake, 57 cm high | *** | |
*** | John Patrick Kelantmama (born 1952), Pukumani pole, Tiwi Islands, natural earth pigments on carved wood, 80.5 cm high | *** | |
*** | An African silver mounted horn switch 88 cm high. Provenance: The Estate of Joan Harris Am and Frederick Parslow Am. | *** | |
*** | A lizard skin Huon Gulf drum, Papua New Guinea, 1930's, 65 cm high | *** | |
*** | An African male figure, wooden, 29.5 cm high | *** | |
*** | A Fijian Kiakavo club, late 19th century, 85 cm long | *** | |
*** | A large Huon Gulf Kundu drum, New Guinea, an incised design to the central handle, with a lizard skin resonant head, 67 cm high | *** | |
*** | A large wide Asmat war shield, Papua New Guinea, 20th century, 142 cm high, 65 cm wide | *** | |
*** | A pair of primitive style drums on stands, possibly African, in muted red, green and yellow colours with hide skins and strapping, 179 cm and 165 cm high | *** | |
*** | Two Dayak blowpipes, Berau District Borneo, Kalimantan, both acquired in 1983, the shorter for active hunting use in the headwaters of the local river system; the longer acquired in the regional town of Tanjung Redeb; both blowpipes have matching bamboo… | *** | |
*** | A crested helmet wood Songye mask, Democratic Republic of Congo, the antique mask with high sagittal crest, light engraving and bands of natural pigment, on display stand, 47 cm high (mask only) | *** | |
*** | Tiwi Island bird, carved and painted wood, 35.5 cm high | *** | |
*** | An African Yoruba Ibeji figure, brown patina wooden sculpture, 27 cm high | *** | |
*** | A carved double-sided creation door, Papua New Guinea, possibly Middle Sepik, female to one side, male to the other, 101 cm high | *** | |
*** | A male New Guinea Sepik River carved and painted ceremonial figure (meat hook), with shells and textile, 93 cm long | *** | |
*** | A carved wooden deer, Balinese, late 19th century, the recumbent figure with horn antlers, 66 cm high (with antlers), 90 cm long | *** | |
*** | A Tapa cloth, Oro Province, Papua New Guinea, 105 x 183 cm long | *** | |
*** | A ceremonial or fighting boomerang, probably central Desert region 66 cm long | *** | |
*** | A collection Aboriginal wooden vessels and weapons comprising two clubs, a small bowl, a parrying shield and a spear the spear 92 cm long | *** | |
*** | An African Yomba Divination carved bowl, wooden, 16.5 cm high | *** | |
*** | A garamut drum, food hook and alligator stool, Sepik River, Papua New Guinea, each piece with inset cowrie shell eyes, the horizontal slit-gong drum 28 cm high, 133 cm wide, 20 cm deep | *** | |
*** | A large wide Asmat war shield, Papua New Guinea, 20th century, 138 cm high, 64 cm wide | *** | |
*** | A tall Asmat war shield, Papua New Guinea, 20th century, 173 cm high, 30 cm wide | *** | |
*** | A medium sized Asmat war shield, Papua New Guinea, 20th century, 121 cm high, 50 cm wide | *** | |
*** | Two woven masks, Sepik Region, Papua New Guinea, comprising a woven Gable mask, Black Water Lakes Sepik region, decorated with natural earth pigments and fibre and a woven reed yam mask, Maprik Hills, Sepik Region, the largest mask 20 cm high | *** | |
*** | A collection of twelve indigenous spears, Central Australia, the largest 242 cm long | *** | |
*** | Two painted and carved wood masks, Sepik River Region, Papua New Guinea, Two carved and painted wood masks, Sepik River Region, Papua New Guinea, including a black pigmented 'Spirit' mask, the largest 54 cm long | *** | |
*** | A sterling silver mounted Blackwood boomerang, early 20th century, the boomerang set with small shaped plaque inscribed 'The Countess of Stradbroke from members of the William Forster Try Boys Society', together with two red gum spinning tops, the… | *** | |
*** | A Massim carved wood figure group, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, 19.5 cm high, 40 cm long | *** | |
*** | An African Boule carved drum beater, wooden, 20.5 cm high | *** | |
*** | An African Burkina Fazo carved flute, wooden, 62 cm long | *** | |
*** | Ceremonial mask, middle Sepik River, New Guinea, woven and painted textile, timber, grass and feathers, 103 cm high, 45 cm wide, 37 cm deep | *** | |
*** | A carved Papua New Guinean ancestral mask, 20th century, decorated to the rim with feathers, 60 cm high | *** | |
*** | An aboriginal wooden spear-thrower, North Queensland, with a wood peg attached at a right angle to distal end by fibre string and resin and two oval sections of bivalve shell attached to proximal end by resin, 82.5 cm long | *** | |
*** | A large ceremonial painted shield, Blackwater, Sepik River, New Guinea, the incised and ochre painted face with inset shell eyes, 78 x 37 cm | *** | |
*** | A collection of Aboriginal and Tiwi Island painted sculptural items and shells, circa 1990's, comprising an ironwood Bima figure, two painted birds, and two painted shells both signed and dated, the Bima figure 42 cm high | *** | |
*** | Two Aboriginal carved boab seeds, one with aquatic scenes, the other featuring an emu, the largest 22 cm long | *** | |
*** | Lesperance, African mother and child, sculptured wood, incised on base: Lesperance, 120 cm high, 32 cm wide, 26 cm deep | *** | |
*** | A provincial pierced terracotta pot, possibly Papua New Guinea origin, with woven reed handle, 25 cm high | *** | |
*** | Small and large Samoan kava bowls, carved wood, 8 cm high, 20 cm wide (small) 17 cm high, 44 cm diameter (large) | *** | |
*** | A Papua New Guinea, lower Sepik River ceremonial shield, painted, carved and incised wood with natural ochres and textile, 144 cm high, 18 cm wide, 9.5 cm deep | *** | |
*** | A large ebony Massim sword club, Papua New Guinea, 77 cm long | *** | |
*** | A lizard skin kundu drum, Massim Region, the long curved body with a crosshatched handle, and raised relief carved animal and human heads to each side, 70 cm high | *** | |
*** | A female ancestral figure, Sepik River, Papua New Guinea, the standing figure with cowrie shell eyes inset to a red and black painted oversize head surmounted by a bird, with draping fibre ornaments extending from the ears and nose, leading to an exposed… | *** | |
*** | An African Secretary bird shield mask, shaped wood of stylised bird shape with geometric pigments, 110 cm high, 50 cm wide | *** | |
*** | A ceremonial bowl, Tami Islands, Huon Gulf, 20th century, with unusual carved club form designs to the rim on either side, 86 cm long | *** | |
*** | A Central African beaded pelt decoration, 55 x 42 cm | *** | |
*** | A large Papua New Guinean Morobe carved wooden bowl 74 cm long | *** | |
*** | Pole a large Papua New Guinean wooden ceremonial tool 98 cm long | *** | |
*** | Western Samoan bailer, carved wood, 12.5 cm high, 42 cm wide, 14 cm deep | *** | |
*** | A Papuan Gulf Gope board together with an Abelam mask, the board 67 cm long, the mask 49 cm long | *** | |
*** | A decorative flute from the Middle Sepik River region and a hardstone embellished staff, the flute 138 cm long when assembled | *** | |
*** | A figurative ceremonial spear, Bacouba, Democratic Republic of Congo, polished wood and iron, made by the Kuba kingdom, 152 cm long. Provenance: Sidewalk Gallery | *** | |
*** | A Melanesian carved wood ceremonial paddle., 140 cm long | *** | |
*** | South Pacific ceremonial mask, carved, incised and painted wood, 102 cm high | *** | |
*** | Jean Lycette, Pandanus basket, irregular weave of vine and twisted cord with arching stick handle, 26 cm high, 30 cm diameter approx | *** | |
*** | A large New Guinean carved crocodile mask, carved wood with natural pigments, 78 cm long | *** | |