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Tribal

Lots 6337—6432 Found 14,467

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Carved wooden bowl of the Marquesas Island, height 24 cm.
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Carved elephant ivory figural piece of an African lady, height 21.5 cm
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Two (2) clubs. South East Queensland. One of smooth curved form and dark patination, the other with incised bulbous handle and…
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Fire stick. Cape York region. A single stick with red seed pod double sheath. Gum and fibre binding. 67 cm
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An African earthenware pottery head form bowl, diameter 22 cm
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Club. Fiji. Rifle stock shaped club. Pecked inner edge and mushroom grip. 82 cm
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Throwing club. African. Tapering cylindrical form with carved snake coiling along the shaft. Glass bead eye and lead filled…
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Nias Island stool, anthropomorphic three legged stool with a flattened rectangular mid-section tapering cylindrical head to…
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A carved and polychrome New Guinea ancestor figure, Sepik River, of a man in a bird headdress, height 128 cm. Provenance:…
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A striking war shield with incised design decorated with natural ochres, Min people, West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea,…
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Fijian Thowing club, ula, type of throwing or missile club with dark, rich patina. 9th century. Height 43 cm, width 5.5 cm
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An early Taiaha with un-carved tongue and head. Length 160 cm Y6117
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18th century or earlier carved ketu (spade) of relatively short length with flat blade and serpentine form handle, length 62 cm
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An old Maori stone mahe (sinker) with latitudinal lashing groove, pale tone, length 8.2 cm.
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Fijian tabua small whale tooth, 14.5 cm length
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Large light grey gabbro toki (adze), of tapering quadrangular shape with a steep bevel, Y08982, L. 28.5 cm. Provenance: Private…
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Three stone small toki (adzes), all with good patina, one found at Cable Bay and another at Onapua Bay, Y13296, Y14306, Y14307,…
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African ivory tusk, well carved with a native bust
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A pair of finely carved and painted Sulawesi panels, Indonesian, early 20th century 106m high, 32 cm wide
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A Sepik carved wood mask, with painted decoration. 68 cm high
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Dick Nguleingulei Murramurra Two Barramundi, circa 1977 natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark 32 x 62 cm
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A Southern Queensland boomerang 62 cm long
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A gilded copper Balinese Kris Hilt. Bali, Indonesia, height 13.5 cm, including stand 20.5 cm. The hilt is in the form of the…
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A carved and painted canoe splashboard from a sea-going canoe, Trobriand Islands 71 cm high, 56 cm wide
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A Dart Quiver (tolor), Kenyah Dayak, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, (circa 1900), carved wood and rattan, 41 cm long.…
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A Dart Quiver (tolor), Sempet Village, Dayak Bahau, Indonesia, (early-mid twentieth century), carved wood and rattan, 35.3 cm…
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A Mask, Dirum Village, Belu, West Timor, (nineteenth century), carved wood, 20.1 cm high. Provenance: Special Timor Primitive,…
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Papua New Guinea, New Ireland, Malangan carving, with natural hair, painted with white, black and orche, and decorated with…
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Australian Aboriginal club, Central Desert, of flat tapered form, with fluting and painted decoration to both sides, length 83…
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Australian Aboriginal implement, in hardwood, with flattened end and fluted body, with pointed end, evidence of natural pigment…
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Bluey Ilkirr Western Arnhem land two Mimih spirits, bark painting 44 x 23 cm
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Western Arnhem land kangaroo, circa 1970, bark painting 65 x 33.5 cm
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An African Songe tribal carved wood figure, modelled standing with hands clasped to swollen belly, a fetish tied to its left…
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A Maori contemporary greenstone pounamou mere. Length 36.5 cm
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A Maori stone patu Whitau/Fibre Beater of circular club like shape with reduction to grip. All over polish and pitted surface.…
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A large natural and cut block of nephrite pounamu, displaying medium to dark green tone, some old chips and inclusions, 9.3kg.
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Contact period Maori shark hook. Metal 'U' shaped point lashed with flax fibre snood and line (broken off). Width 4.5 cm
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Early 19th century Maori hocken flax thread and needle. Used on capes and cloaks. Length 5.5 cm (excluding thread)
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Papua New Guinea Anstead mask. Made from a whole tortoise shell body. Ex Hudig collection Wellington (Hudig visited Papua New…
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Malagan frieze from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. U sed for story telling. Brightly decorated with birds and a central male…
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A Dan passport mask, ivory coast, carved from a single piece of light wood. The Dan people also carried small masks called…
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A Bena Lulua maternity figure, Democratic Republic of Congo, carved from a single piece of wood. This figure depicts a kneeling…
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A stone hand adze, Malaita Island, Solomon Islands. A ceremonial adze of heavy proportions. A long handle with two protruding…
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A Kinikini club, Fiji, used in combat. Carved from a heavy hardwood. Featuring a large blade with incised patterns, ribbed…
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A Kaikavo club, Fiji, used in combat. This club is carved from hardwood. It features a long cylindrical shaft and and a curved…
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A mid-20th century large Maori carved poutokomanawa type figure, the stylised standing male figure with small 'kumete'…
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A fine Abelam ceremonial yam mask, of tightly woven cane, the anterior earth encrusted and decorated with polychrome pigments,…
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A sandstone sculpture, 19th century, possibly Indonesian, the simple and stylised image of a man and a woman riding a half…
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A rare Neolithic Highlands ritual bowl, the stone vessel with remnant red pigment to the interior, usewear evident,Papua New…
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A collection of five African ivory ear ornaments, the circular ear lobe plugs mounted on a display stand, 4-5 cm (5)
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Message stick. Ovoid shaped with incised spiral designs and animal tracks
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Pre-Eurpoean Argillite Toki or Adze of Quadrangular shape. Length 21 cm
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Stone toki/adze, 21 cm long
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Four stone toki/adze, 22 cm, 22 cm, 12 cm, 11 cm
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Two pounamu toki/adze, 9.5 cm 6 cm long
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Composite moulded Maori poupou wall panel, two full tiki figures on plinth base, 1340 cm high
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A carved wood Maori panel, in relief with an ancestor figure, with Weku head with inlaid paua eyes. 44 x 24 cm
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A Fred Money silver hei matau (fishhook) with greenstone carved barb fine rope and Maori mask detail. Suspended from a bar with…
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A colonial 9ct rose gold and pounamu cigar holder, by A. Kohn, engraved G. de C.L. 1907. (George de Clive Lowe was an early…
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A Maori flax skirt c.1890-1920, Piupiu variety made, with twisted cords of natural and black dyed flax as well as yellow and…
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A 19th century Fijian tabua, the sperm whale tooth in old polish, scratch incised markings to the reverse, of unusual…
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Maripi (shark tooth knife) by Rangi Redman, carved in the traditional style with manaia forms with inset paua shell eyes. The…
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Pende mask Democratic Republic of Congo, with high forehead and triangulated face with downcast eyes and open mouth barring…
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Four Papua New Guinea Gogodala masks, pigment painted and adorned with cassowary feathers, collected near Balimo in the western…
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A Papua New Guinea Sepik River ancestor figure, modelled seated with hands clasped behind his neck. Adorned with boars tusks to…
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Fijian Ula Soba wooden throwing club with carved grip
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A boomerang club with incised linear decoration on front and patterned motif on reverse, West Australian origin, 66 cm.…
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A Boomerang, Western New South Wales origin, late 19th century, 71.5 cm. Provenance: Private Collection South Australia
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A ceremonial bird, Arnhem Land, Northen Territory (circa 1980s), paperbark, bush string, natural earth pigments and feathers,…
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A club, Austral Islands, Polynesia (mid twentieth century), carved hardwood, 108.5 cm
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An African assegai and short spear, the assegai with typical leaf shaped blade on short shaft, the other spear with a small…
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Copper Discovery of New Zealand fire screen, depicting a waka with Maori warriors at sea
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An old canoe prow, profusely carved, incorporating hornbill, fish, and stone axe motifs, mounted on custom metal stand, Asmat…
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Crocodile ancestor figure, Tigowi village, Middle Sepik River, this figure is a Creation ancestor, called 'Kumbiamu', the first…
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Aboriginal shield, mid 20th century from the Kimberley in Western Australia hardwood, intricate carving, lineal fluting to…
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Papua New Guinea carved post. Kwoma Yina Koma Minja figure. David Said Collection, length 129 cm
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Spear thrower (woomera) a fine Central Australia carved woomera resin handle with stone cutting tool on the handle. Kangaroo…
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Australian Aboriginal Hooked fighting boomerang No.7, central Desert, with hooked end, fluted on one side, evidence of natural…
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Maori Toi Whakairo carved wooden panel, depicting a figure with the tongue sticking out and wide open paua shell set eyes, 48 x…
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Early Western NSW boomerang. Club style, long boomerang in very dense hardwood. Finely incised all over the convex surface,…
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A war shield, with ochre decoration to face, Mendi area, highlands PNG. Provenance: The Dr George Soutter and Dr John Yu…
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Timbuwara figure, woven fibre and natural earth pigments, Highlands region,Papua New Guinea, 66 cm x 150 cm
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A male ancestral figure, in the form of an ancestral man standing atop an elaborate ancestral being, collection # 880170, Asmat…
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A yam mask, finely woven on natural fibre decorated with polychrome ochres, Abelam people, Maprik region, Papua New Guinea.…
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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…
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19th/20th century whale bone tiki, beautifully carved and set with shell eyes, on stand, height 12 cm. Provenance: Purchased…
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19th/20th century whale bone tiki group, carved in the tiki and bird, set with shell eyes, on metal stand, height 15 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…
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Green river war shield a very large war shield from the green river region of Papua New Guinea. 145 cm
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Navajo rug, American c. 1930s cream ground with red and brown geometric pattern
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Central Australia woomera, bearing a watercolour painting by Walter Ebatarinja (1915-1968) on the reverse. The front has a…
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Bali, handle, ivory modelled in the form of a pregnant woman holding her stomach, 10 cm height
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Aboriginal artists unknown. A carved shield and a woomera circa mid to late 20th century, each being carved to front and back,…
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A Waskuk ritual bowl, with two formed ancestral faces showing mirthful expressions, Mino village, Washkuk Hills, upper Sepik…
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Balinese carved figure of a temple guardian, depicted with hands in pose with elaborate dress, painted in tones of red, blue,…
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A Splashboard, incised design to top, portion of base painted with pink enamel paint, signs of extensive use, Trobriand Islands…