African and Oceanic Art | Antiquities

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A Santa Cruz dance club napa Solomon Islands with red and black pigment decoration of figures, fish, a long tailed animal and geometric panels, 91...

A Kanak club New Caledonia of phallic form with faint incised chevron banding and with circles and semi-circles, 76.5cm long. ...[more]

A Buka Island dance paddle Solomon Islands with a Janus head finial with a leaf shape headdress above a panel of incised concentric designs and a ...

A Solomon Islands paddle Melanesia with a leaf shape blade and a T shape handle with carved head terminals, each with black encrusted pigment, 141...

A Buka Island dance club Solomon Islands of spatulate form with a carved Janus head finial above serrated edges and concentric incised panels, wit...

A Marqueses Islands U'u war club Polynesia with relief carved tiki heads, faces and geometric motifs, the cylindrical shaft with a phallic termina...

A Rennell Island club baukiaga Melanesia basalt, wood and leaf fibre, with a twelve point head bound to the tapering handle with a carved zig-zag ...

A Bougainville Island spear Solomon Islands, Melanesia palmwood, bone and fibre, with barbed tip and woven two-tone fibre, a tightly formed sphere...

A Bougainville Island spear Solomon Islands, Melanesia palmwood, fibre and bone, with barbed tips, woven two-tone fibre, carved figures and a tigh...

A Bougainville Island spear Solomon Islands, Melanesia palmwood, fibre and bone, with a barbed tip, a band of two-tone woven fibre, carved heads a...

An Austral Islands paddle Polynesia the flared pommel with eight dancing girls and a carved concentric circle and niho teeth top, above all-over c...

An Austral Islands paddle Polynesia with all over carved decoration, the rectangular pommel with a dancing girl either side above a square section...

A Kanak bird head club go porowa ra maru New Caledonia the back of the head crested and with a stepped out grip, 19th century, 76cm long, on a sta...

A Rennell Island shark hook gaung'akao Melanesia wood with sennit, 34.6cm high including the loop, 20cm high, without the loop. Provenance Bill Ev...

A Kanak mask apuema New Caledonia with arched brows and lozenge shaped eyes, a hooked nose with flared nostrils to an open mouth, 38cm high, on a ...

A Rapa Nui figure moai tangata Easter Island having large eliptical eyes with vacant pupils, 31.5cm high. Provenance By repute Lt. Gen. Augustus H...

A Rapa Nui male figure moai kavakava Easter Island with inset shell eyes having the remains of resin for the obsidian pupils, 57.5cm high. ...[mo...

A Koromo dance apron Mimika, Irian Jaya, Indonesia cassowary feathers and fibre, 130cm long, and a Papua New Guinea fibre apron, the woven belt wi...

A Papua New Guinea bag Melanesia woven fibre with applied shells, animal teeth, seeds, vertebrae and decorated cane, 18cm wide. ...[more]

A Humboldt Bay female figure New Guinea, Melanesia wood wearing a headdress and with a knot at the back of her head, pierced ears and linear decor...

A Biwat mask Yuat River, Papua New Guinea with pierced eyes, nose and mouth, with remains of pigment, 20th century, 49.5cm high, on a stand. (2) P...

A Sepik River tambuan mask Papua New Guinea plant fibre with pigment decoration, 70cm high. Provenance Marisa Viaggi Bonisoli Collection, Turin, I...

A Sepik River paddle East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea with an abstract pigment design to the blade and carved decoration o the top of the ste...

A Massim fighting club pulata Trobriand Islands the end of the blade with a medial ridge and six bands of carved zig-zags, the handle with a disc ...

A Lake Sentani ceremonial bowl Irian Jaya, Indonesia with carved and pierced handles and the underside with a carved tiered arched design, 1st hal...

A Massim fighting club pulata Trobriand Islands the end of the blade pierced above stylised carved decoration, with handle with a scalloped edge a...

A Boiken dish Papua New Guinea with carved linear decoration to the shallow rim. the underside with a central crab claw design and two pairs of ey...

A Massim dance paddle Trobriand Islands with a ribbed leaf shape blade and a carved bird head terminal, one side with painted stylised decoration,...

A Papuan Gulf anthropomorphic headrest Era and Wapo Delta, Papua New Guinea carved from one piece with a stylised head having the remains of thick...

A Massim drum Trobriand Islands with a central carved scroll band and with a side handle issuing zoomorphic ribs with concentric arches and stylis...

A Massim drum Trobriand Islands with a moulded girdle and a side handle with arched ribs and a lizard skin with a split fibre binding, early 20th ...

A Lower Sepik figure Papua New Guinea with applied cowrie shell eyes, the flat back with a painted collection number 3, 34cm high, on a stand. (2)...

A Keram River / Yuat River male figure Papua New Guinea with applied shells, buttons, beads and inset irregular mother of pearl to the eyes, the f...

An Iatmul standing male figure Papua New Guinea with inset shell eyes and fibre ornamentation, having two crocodiles to his sides, with pigment de...

A Sepik River pestle Papua New Guinea of janiform, carved two opposing lizards with wrapped tails, the sides with a mask, having traces of a blue ...

An Iatmul large platter Blackwater River area, Papua New Guinea of shallow oblong form with a carved border of circles and the underside with styl...

A Mendi shoulder shield Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea with incised decoration with white, red and black pigment, with a diagonally fixed fi...

An Asmat male ancestor figure Irian Jaya, Indonesia standing and holding a snake, with remains of pigment, 20th century, 127.5cm high. ...[more]

A Sepik River standing female figure Papua New Guinea with inset cowrie shell eyes, pierced ears and an attachment loop to the neck, with pigment ...

A Sawos canoe prow ornament Middle Sepik River, Papua New Guinea carved stylised bird and crocodile heads and with pigment decoration, 92cm long, ...

A Wuvulu Island club Papua New Guinea with four curved whalebone ribs attached to a wooden shaft, 115cm long, and a Papua New Guinea stone head ad...

Two Massim staffs Trobriand Islands with carved figures, the larger with male and female, and with lime fill, 108cm and 105.5cm long. (2) ...[mor...

An Asmat spear Irian Jaya, Indonesia with a pointed and barbed tip to carved decoration including a flat panel pierced with stylised seated figure...

A Tami Islands bowl Papua New Guinea with relief carved stylised fish and birds with red and white pigment decoration, 62.2cm long, and a Massim t...

A Maori box and cover Rotorua area, New Zealand with carved tiki figures and masks and inset haliotis shell, early 20th century, 31cm high, 43cm w...

A Maori staff New Zealand with three carved tiki figures, one male and two female, the male with his left hand to his mouth, with haliotis shell i...

A Maori walking cane New Zealand with three carved tiki figures having inset abalone eyes and with bands of linear and notched decoration, the han...

An Aborigine hooked boomerang Australia with fine grooved decoration to one side and a textured surface to the other, with red ochre, 19th century...

An Aborigine boomerang club Darling River, New South Wales, Australia with shaped ends and with banded linear carved decorated, the reverse with c...

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