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Lots 7009—7104 Found 14,467

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A war shield, Blackwater river, Sepik Region, Papua New Guinea, the design on this shield is symmetrical like a mirror…
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A good quality greenstone Peka Peka red wax in the eyes. Length 8 cm late 20th century
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Quality wooden highly carved lid of a wakahuia box (Please note - lid only). Carved most likely by Rangi Redman, he would have…
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Early 19th century bronze shark fishing hook. Came in with a collection of Maori artefacts. Maori used to work with the whalers…
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Whalebone taiaha fragment fully carved tongue and mouth decorated with H'h' and dog tooth notching. Raised nose and two incised…
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Tackle box (fishing tackle box) Hollowed box and lid with protruding rectangular lugs on side for attachment. Rich, dark-brown…
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Fijian tabua - ceremonial whale tooth, a small but refined tooth with two pierced holes to end for attachment. Rich,…
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Fijian tabua - ceremonial whale tooth polished sperm whale tooth with two pierced holes to end for attachment. Rich creamy…
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Fijian tabua - ceremonial whale tooth polished sperm whale tooth with two pierced holes to end for attachment incised cross…
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Fijian tabua - ceremonial whale tooth polished sperm whale tooth with two pierced holes to end for attachment. Rich creamy…
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Early contact period stone adze in overall good condition, but chip to leading edge. Length 15.5 cm
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Late 19th century/20th piupiu (skirt), traditional all flax with wide woven band, 71 cm band width
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A large Sepik figure, Papua New Guinea, 131 cm
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Antique Zulu hardwood knobkerrie copper wire to the shaft, 79 cm long
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Shields: two West Australian aboriginal shields with carved decoration, c1970s. 75 cm & 104 cm
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A large bird face Sago Flour storage jar Aibom village, Chambri Lakes, Papua New Guinea. Provenance: Ex. Hans Allies Sydney. 55…
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Club (Waddy): East Australian origin, late 19th century. 64 cm
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Boomerang. Old patina with finely incised fluting to one side. Central Australia. Provenance: Paquim collection. Acquired by…
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Australian Aboriginal hunting boomerang, Queensland, of typical curved form, on stand, length 81 cm
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A stone cut boomerang, with good Patina
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A Kuba cloth men's ceremonial skirt, 59 x 442 cm
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Tiwi Island bird, carved and painted wood, 35.5 cm high
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An African Yoruba Ibeji figure, brown patina wooden sculpture, 27 cm high
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A Covered Ceramic Vase, Ifugao, North Luzon, Philippines, (circa 1900), earthenware, bambo, rattan and wood, 20 cm high.…
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Three Kris Handles, Bali, Indonesia, (mid twentieth century), carved hardwood, 11.5 cm; 10.5 cm; 9 cm long (3)
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A Dart Quiver (tolor), Kenyah Dayak, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, (early-mid twentieth century), carved wood and rattan, 33.5…
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A collection of five Papua New Guinea Sepik River carved masks and a food hook. 74 cm (largest height)
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A Medicine Horn, Toba Batak, North Sumatra, Indonesia, (mid twentieth century), carved wood and horn, 28.5 cm long
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A shield, Queensland rainforest mission station origin, 20th century. 78 cm.
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Narritjin Maymuru (1922-1982): Untitled (Possum Dreaming), natural earth pigments on bark. 68 x 36 cm
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A Bird Mask, Nepal (nineteenth century), carved wood and pigment, 21 cm high. Provenance: Shakya, Bali. Acquired from above by…
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Zulu Izikoti (wedding cape), South Africa, comprised of fourteen overlapping cloth panels with beaded edges, 114 cm x 77 cm
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Australian Aboriginal boomerang, Western Queensland, of unusual shape, with incised decoration to both sides, in filled with…
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A carved double-sided creation door, Papua New Guinea, possibly Middle Sepik, female to one side, male to the other, 101 cm high
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19th century Australian Aboriginal woomera, South East Australian, of narrow leaf form, with incised leaf motifs, length 71.5 cm
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Australian Aboriginal fighting club, with large knop end, good patina, length 48 cm
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A male New Guinea Sepik River carved and painted ceremonial figure (meat hook), with shells and textile, 93 cm long
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Two west African carved and pigmented Ere Ibeji femail figures, 20th century, the tallest 27.5 cm high (2)
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Two west African carved and pigmented Ere Ibeji figures, 20th century, the tallest 29.5 cm high (2)
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A Sepik figure, 129 cm high
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A carved wooden deer, Balinese, late 19th century, the recumbent figure with horn antlers, 66 cm high (with antlers), 90 cm long
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Rare fine Man's back ornament, Huli people, Papua New Guinea. Blyth's hornbill upper beak, pig tusks, plant fibre string and…
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Early club, Condah Lakes, Victoria. Carved and engraved hardwood, length 54 x 6 cm. Provenance: Collected by Louis Kurtze…
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Early spear thrower (woomera), Central Australia, Northern Territory. Carved hardwood, spinifex resin and natural pigments. The…
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Large Kanganaman woven dance mask, Middle Sepik, Papua New Guinea. Woven plant fibre and natural pigments. An enormous woven…
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Coiled basket, Victor Harbour, South Australia. Woven plant fibre. Approx length 17 x 7 cm. Provenance: Jeff Fischer, Adelaide,…
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Large coiled basket, Lake Alexandrina Region, South Australia, woven plant fibre (no custom stand) the basket is made from…
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ARTIST UNKNOWN, CIRCA 1970. Water creature. Natural earth pigments on bark, 58 x 25 cm. Provenance: Maniingrida Arts and Crafts…
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An early throwing club, East Australian, 75 cm long
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Bruce Wardungku Maningridda, rainbow spirit consuming creation ancestor, circa 1970, bark painting 40 cm
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Ceremonial flute Iatmul Sepik river, Papua New Guinea, length 113 cm
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Kete muka kiwi. Early woven kete single twining with attached kiwi feathers attached on every second aho (weft). Some feather…
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Two Matua (fish hooks), large bone single piece fish hook and a fish hook barb, the large hook with end broken off.
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Papua New Guinea Abelam yam mask, bush fibre with natural pigments. Used in yam harvest festivals, collected in the East Sepik…
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A coastal Ramu river ceremonial mask, of wood, the anterior decorated with thick resin and red pigments, resin set shell eyes,…
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A Balinese carved bamboo ceremonial container, with incised designs of a figure swimming in a sea of suffering, the stopper in…
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An Ifugao ancestor sculpture, of wood in the form of a woman standing above a irregular circular base holding a child at her…
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A fine Buka Island basket, of woven cane, smooth glossy patina, 49 x 44 cm
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An Indonesian Batic horn bill ear pendant, circa 1900-1925, 8 cm width
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An old Fijian bowai club, plain cylindrical shape with notch carved grip. Length 85 cm
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Early 20th century ebonised work box, all carved with Maori motifs
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Wooden Maori 'Gavel' with carved figures on handle, paua shell insets to all carvings. (See photo). Length 28 cm
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Carved Maori panel, c. 1900, from the Taranaki Region. Length 53 cm. Width 14 cm
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Three Pre-European toki, two are polished with well defined lateral edges and bevels with sharp blades. One is flaked on the…
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Three pieces of worked pounamu, with lateral scarf marks and the wording 'Te Waikakahi' inscribed.
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Aboriginal bark painting of 2 fish
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Two Niue barbed spears, black wood heads. Provenance: Owen Mapp collection, 124 cm length
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Two Nagaland Konyak spears, each with lanceolate shaped blade and decorated with attached bands of dyed red and black hair.
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A New Britain stone headed club, a fine club with stone head set on a wooden tapering shaft with raised end. Length 77 cm
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A late 20th century carved Maori wakahuia, traditional notched carving to the sides, the lid and handles carved with the…
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An old African Zulu spear, the flat tapered iron with fine brass/copper bound wire-work to the wooden shaft, fur and skin bound…
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Patu aruhe (fern root pounder). Length 31 cm
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A Samoan folk art figure carved crouching holding a bowl carved in the form of a turtle, raised on a circular base inscribed…
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An Eastern Javanese Majapahit bronze mirror with handle, 13th to 16th century, the hand mirror, with a raised boss within…
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An early Wunda Aboriginal shield, Western Australia (circa 1880) length 62 cm
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A good 19th century Fijian ceremonial dance club (kiakavo), the heavy robust club carved from casuarina wood, the head section…
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Two Maori pre-European stone toki (adze), length 170 & 16.5 cm
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Two Maori pre-European stone toki (adze), length 190 & 18.5 cm
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Maori wooden boundary marker post, probably 17th century, with decoration of eyes, nose and mouth (primitive carving) at the…
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A Fijian whale tooth tabua, the undrilled tooth with typical turmeric staining, old fractures to the ivory at the tip. Length…
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A 19th century whalebone heru (hair comb), double sided, with two profile manaia cresting a koruru head above two divided…
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A 1930s African elephant ivory crocodile carving. Length 55 cm
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Group of three (3) spears. Northern Australian origin. Two with single barbed tips, remains of gum and fibre joins, the other…
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Club. South East Australian. Bulbous pointed head and carved bulbous handle, the shaft and head pecked decorative bands. Cracks…
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An old Polynesian root-stock club the head with irregular root spurs, the shaft with notched detail at the terminal end, length…
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Samoan club, wooden war club the shaft widening to the blade which tapers to a point and with a central ridge on the tapered…
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A Papua New Guinea Highlands shield, with large circular design in red and white ochre, Western Highlands region, Papua New…
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Australian Aboriginal throwing club, with pointed baluster end and tapering handle, paper label 41, no.86 to base, length 49 cm…
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A soft wood painted Vanuatu figure, 137 cm
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A New Ireland lintel. Provenance: David Baker Collection. 172 cm
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A Yena figure wood with natural ochres and incised pattern verso, with custom stand. Washkuk area, upper Sepik Region, Papua…
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An ancestral figure, Abelam area, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea with stand; A/F
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An ancestral figure, with woven cane head covering and tapa lap lap. Papuan Gulf, Papua New Guinea; with metal stands
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A clay plaque and a small ornament by William Ricketts (1899-1993), the plaque featuring the face of an aboriginal youth in…
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A Malekula ceremonial plaque. Provenance: David Baker Collection. 91 cm x 51xm
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Boomerang, mid 20th century a fighting boomerang. Two incised stripes on one end. Signed 'Jimmy'. 70 cm