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New Guinean — Tribal

Lots 1921—2016 Found 4,010

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A large coastal Sepik mask, finely carved with a bird totem on the forehead & a dog totem coming out of the mouth, Ex Ruth…
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West Papuan Dani stone axe. Morticed hardwood handle fitted with a tapered stone blade. A well used tool. Length 74 cm
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Two Papua New Guinea bone daggers. All over carved hilt with red infill. Use patina. Length 37 cm (longest)
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A figure and two woven Headdresses, Abelam. Length 65 cm. Diameter 48 cm, 35 cm
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A Gope board, Papuan Gulf, well carved and with ochre infill designs. 113 x 20 cm
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Early Papua New Guinea Asmat carving. Canoe form with relief carved back, human and, bird totemic finial. Old lime and…
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An old Aitape ancestor mask, of wood in classic abstract form, the convex anterior with applied red pigment, weathered, north…
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Collection of Papua New Guinean artifacts including two large sculptuarl pieces depicting faces (a lot)
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Papua New Guinea Sepik spirit carving. Iatmul carved anthropomorphic hornbill. Decorated with cassowary feathers and Job's…
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Papua New Guinea Sepik River orator's chair. Older, tall, carved seated figure playing a flute, tusk, shell and plaited fibre…
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Waikali, Waki (New Guinea active 1980s) 2), 'Dressed Myself (?) to go for Dance,' 1990 82 x 44 cm; and 'Dancing Huli Wigman,'…
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Large Papua New Guinea Torres Strait Islands drum. Carved wood and snake skin, height 116 cm
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Early Kundu drum, Asmat Peoples Papua New Guinea. Carved wood and snake skin, height 75 cm
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Papua New Guinea Tami Islands canoe splash board, height 134 cm
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Large Chinese carved polychrome and gesso head of Kwan Yin, depicted with headdress, accented with floral motifs, with a serene…
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A New Guinea stone club, ground stone disc head on wooden shaft with fibre bindings, Kukukuku people, Morobe region, PNG, 92 x…
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A woven Helmut dance mask, Abelam people, Sepik, Papua New Guinea, serrated triangular motifs around the orange face and…
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A Kwoma neck band set with approx. eighty dog teeth and a Kwoma pectoral panels set with approx 70 dog teeth, Papua New Guinea…
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A lower Sepik river mask New Guinea. Height 59 cm
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A ritual bird figure, Hornbill, Abelam people, Maprik Region, Papua New Guinea 79 x 39 cm
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Large old food bowl, Boiken, Sepik. Engraved human figure. Height 57 cm
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A Mortlock Island stool, Micronesia, fine sennit binding to both legs 43 x 54 cm
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Gope, Goribari Island, Papua Gulf. Height 191 cm
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Ritual pottery figure, Waskuk Hill, Upper Sepik River. Height 35 cm
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An New Guinea Highlands Asaro earthenware mask, Papua New Guinea
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A New Guniea Karawari figure, Papua New Guinea, early example with more recent applied natural earth pigment decoration.…
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Stone headed club. Collected Eastern New Britain, Papua New Guinea, prior to World War II. Length 108.5 cm. Collection Dr John…
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A Trobriand Island stool, Papua New Guinea 42 cm
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A Massim panel, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, with incised design decorated with natural ochres
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A middle Sepik pottery food bowl, Koiwut village, incised stylised faces and fertility symbols, 30.5 cm diameter
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A huon Gulf ladle, carved ancestral face to handle, 77 cm high
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Three Papuan ceremonial Gope boards, each with carved tribal totem. The largest, 20 cm
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A Wossera Region head dress and an Abelam head ornament, the latter, 86 cm x 38 cm
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A fine, old authentic Karahut figure, Abelam people, north of the middle Sepik river, woven from hibiscus bark twine and sennit…
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A West Papua, Korwar figure, modelled as father and Son, open work carving, 30 cm high
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A large Janus figure basket hook and a middle Sepik ancestor mask, the hook, 97 cm high
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A collection of five Papua New Guinea ancestral figures,
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Three tribal objects, including Massim betelnut mortar, Tongan tapa beater and West Papuan korwar figure, the latter 21.5 cm
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A Nangissap village Tumbuan dance costume, Papua New Guinea, large face with protruding eyes, rattan girdle with loops for…
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A large Papua New Guinea Plaited Fibre and painted Saksak bark Cassowary, Tambanum village, 101 cm long
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Three New Guinea objects, including figural garamut drum lug, Maprik region yam digging staff and crocodile spear finial, the…
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A lake Sentani Tapa painting, West Papua, depicting two tribal mothers with a baby between them, framed, 76 cm
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A West Papuan Cassowary quill Neckband, longest quill, 30 cm long
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A New Guinea n terracotta figural vessel
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A Massim ceremonial axe Milne Bay Province, Eastern New Guinea
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A New Guinea wicker covered shield Oro Province
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A Sepik painted and feather mounted mask
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A large carved board, upper Sepik New Guinea 42 x 200 cm
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A New Guinea polychrome painted mask vase 16 cm high
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Two Massim mortar and Pestles, each with signs of considerable age 24 cm & 12 cm (mortar only
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A group of Sepik river Arrows some with finely carved shafts and other decoration
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A Massim walking stick well carved with figures and masks 91.5, cm; and a Sepik walking staff, the upper part carved with a…
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A tribal dagger, obsidian and carved parinarium nut (putty nut) with orange pigment, Admiralty Islands, early 20th century, 27…
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A tribal spirit figure, carved wood, shell and natural earth pigments, Papua New Guinea, 54 cm high
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Mwai mask, carved wood, tusk, shell and hair with earth pigments, Korongo village, middle Sepik, Papua New Guinea, a€‹88 cm high
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A tribal drum, carved wood, lizard skin and fibre with remains of piped clay and ochre, Huon Gulf, East Papua New Guinea, 81 cm…
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Gopi spirit board, carved wood, shell and fibre with remains of painted decoration, Papua New Guinea, 112 cm high
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Trench art: Lockheed P-38 Lightning mounted on stand depicting Papua New Guinea, aluminium, c. 1940s, 26.5 cm high and 21 cm…
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A West Sepik Papuan bride adornment, traditional currency used for bride price. Plant fibre, egg cowries and cowrie shells.…
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AntiquePapua New Guinea rare pair of sawfish bills. 45 cm long each
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An ethnographic Washkuk ancestor sculpture (nogwi), c.early 20th century, of wood in the form of a female, decorated with…
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An upper Mendi ceremonial pig Killing Apron, the woven fibre cloth, earth encrusted, decorated with polychrome pigments, cane…
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Papua New Guinea Karawari river carved Yipwon. Height 74 cm
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Papua New Guinea carved wood yam mask. Ovoid head with drilled ears and shell eyes. Stylised decoration in white and red ochres…
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Papua New Guinea Sepik ancestral mask. Ovoid formed face ringed in protruberances, decorated in cruciform lime and red ochre.…
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Papua New Guinea East Sepik Province basket hook. Middle Sepik river, c.1970s. Collected in situ by Keith black. Provenance:…
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A Papua New Guinea tribal mask carving height 68 cm
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A large PNG mask, large beak-like nose, carved detail to the chin and forehead, shell eyes, with fine dry grass woven into the…
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Papua New Guinea Sepik Totemic carving. Hornbill and other birds mounted on figures. Collected 1960s. Height 111 cm
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Massim lime spatula, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea. Carved and engraved hardwood, dark glossy patina. Spatulas were used…
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Four various New Guinea crocodile Hides. Collected in 1960s. Length 199 cm
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Papua New Guinea Kwoma Mindja figure. Single concave face over raised medial carving. Washkuk village, East Sepik, 1960's.…
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A Murik Lakes food platter, Lower Sepik Region, Papua New Guinea, 83 x 26 cm
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A pair of Sepik River stools in the form of a crouching ancestral figure 35 cm
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A delicately carved Trobriand Islands feast dish, Papua New Guinea, carved from dense wood, of elliptical form raised on a…
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Two various Melanesian canoe Paddles, including lake Sentani man's paddle (carved); leaf shaped river paddle; and Trobriands…
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Papua New Guinea quatrefoil stone headed war club. With fibre binding, length 70 cm
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New Ireland, Malagan mask. Carved wooden mask with shell inlaid eyes. Height 36 cm
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Papua New Guinea feast bowl, with carved side handles. Provenance: Nigel Hillind collection, 43 cm length
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Melanesian carved wooden figure with shell inset eyes, and a New Ireland (?) carved statue. H. 32 cm and 58 cm
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Tribal drum, Gulf of Papua, deep ribbed incised lines with red, white and black colouring, lizard skin and grass binding
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A good Papua New Guinea Siassi Kundu drum, the wooden drum beautifully carved with clan motifs, the handle flanked by carved…
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Papua New Guinea breast ornament, Abstracted figural form embellished with shells and boar's tusks, 26 cm length
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An Asmat drum, West Papua, condition: there is a crack and the skin is missing, height 66 cm, diameter 21 cm
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Three pigment dishes, Iatmul people, middle Sepik River, Papua New Guinea, all take the form of the crocodile (the most common…
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A large clam shell ring money token (wenga), Boiken people, Papua New Guinea, hand formed irregular disc shape from giant clam…
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A Sepik tribal piece, Waskukli Ranges, 1961, Malina Tribe, 22 cm high. Provenance: Purchased from Jim Davidson
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Two Sepik bone Daggers, the anterior decorated in incised motifs, tapering to a pointed terminal, smooth glossy patina,Papua…
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A collection of six highland arrows, in classic composite form, the hardwood points above bamboo shafts, one tipped with…
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Kwoma Nogwi female figure. Deeply incised upper body with weathered polychrome decoration. Washkuk village, East Sepik, Papua…
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Ramu River paddle from Papua New Guinea, stylized ancestor figures painted with dark pigment are displayed on one side of the…
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A Papua New Guinea war shield from the Pora Pora river, East Sepik Provence, broad wedged shield with a central ancestral…
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A Papua New Guinea roof gable figure, raku fired clay avian/anthropomorphic sitting figure surmounted on an ovoid base. Aibom…
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A Papua New Guinea Aibom village Sago storage jar, raku fired coiled clay vessel with flared rim and decorated with…
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An old New Guinea stone adze blade of swollen ovoid form, dark green tone with pale inclusions, labelled 'Melanesian Woodlark…
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Food Hook New Guinean Carved Totem with Original Ochre Decoration & Shell Eyes 90 cm Length