Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities

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A Lumi shield Papua New Guinea with a relief carved stylised figure of scrolls, lines, two elliptical forms and notches, with fibre bindings and a...

An Asmat shield Casuarina Coast, Irian Jaya with carved stylised figures and a stylised snake finial, with pigment decoration and fibre tufts to t...

A Bahinemo cult hook garra Papua New Guinea with a central mask having a large nose and cylinder eyes, with two hooks above and below, with pigmen...

A Dayak hampatong figure Indonesia carved as a seated figure with a serrated edge cap, a long nose and an open mouth, with an inverted animal in h...

A Dayak hampatong figure Indonesia the standing male with his head turned to his left, with large eliptical eyes and carved teeth, his headdress w...

An Iatmul large ancestor figure Middle Sepik River, Papua New Guinea with inset shell eyes, a long nose and a masked groin, 189.5cm high, on a bas...

An Indonesian carved trunk sculpture depicting figures, a crocodile and dog like animals, with white and black painted decoration, 114.5cm high, o...

An Abelam male figure Papua New Guinea standing and with red, yellow, black and white pigment decortation, 113cm high. Provenance Dr Laurence R. ...

A Mendi shield Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea with a vertical medial ridge and with orange and white pigment decoration, the centre pierced ...

A Lumi war shield Torricelli Mountains, Papua New Guinea carved in relief a stylised multi-scroll motif and with attachment holes, 101cm high. ...

A Lower Sepik River standing female figure Papua New Guinea with a nodule to the back of the neck and concentric rings to the navel, 43cm high, on...

A Sepik River mask Papua New Guinea with pierced eliptical eyes, ears and mouth, with a ridged long nose, with white and brown pigment decoration...

A Papua New Guinea woman's canoe Melanesia the prows with crocodile heads and standing curved male ancestor figures, with a carved stylised egde a...

A Papuan Gulf gope board Papua New Guinea relief carved an ancestor figure, with traces of red and white pigment, 110.5cm high. ...[more]

A Kwoma ceiling panel Washkuk Hills, Papua New Guinea sago palm with pigment decoration in white, yellow and black, depicting three ancestor faces...

An Abelam ceiling panel Papua New Guinea sago palm with pigment decoration in yellow, black, white, orange and green, 124cm high, 32cm wide, on a ...

An Iatmul suspension hook Papua New Guinea with a standing male figure having inset cowrie shell eyes and a pierced septum, 59cm high, a Chambri L...

Three Massim lime spatulas Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea one with a carved figure terminal, 42.5cm long, one carved an animal, with shell in...

A Massim dish Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea oblong with carved scroll decoration and with a seated figure at one end, 16cm high, three Mass...

An Asmat panel Irian Jaya, Indonesia carved two seated figures, stylised birds and a shield shape, with red and white pigment, 58cm wide, mounted ...

A Massim club Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea with a toothed blade, with carved scroll decoration and a male and female figure to the handle, ...

A Massim staff Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea with two carved female figures and scroll decoration, 104cm high. ...[more]

A Boiken bride currency hombulie Papua New Guinea giant turbo marmoratus snail shell and fibre with pigment and cassowary feathers, 27.5cm high.P...

A Papuan Gulf gope board Papua New Guinea with a central carved ancestor mask with a pierced septum, with a peg and with carved chevrons above and...

An Iatmul shield Middle Sepik River, Papua New Guinea the front with carved decoration including three masks, the back with four integral lugs and...

A Korwar figure Geelvink Bay, Indonesia seated with pegged blue glass bead eyes and with a recess through the head, with the hands supporting the ...

An Abelam female figure tetepeku Burui Kunai region, Sepik Plains, Papua New Guinea of slender form with a wide leg stance and her hands on her hi...

A Kwoma mindja yam spirit figure Papua New Guinea with a suspension loop above a head with pierced eyes and mouth and with a long nose, above thre...

A Manambu head Yambun Village, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea with an integral spike to the top of the head, with cowrie shell eyes and paint decora...

A Papua New Guinea comb Melanesia bamboo, with fine incised decoration, 12.2cm long, a Papua New Guinea basalt axe blade, 12.8cm long and two mod...

Three Mendi dolls Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea two males and a female, pandanus leaves, fibre, reeds, shells, seeds, hair and pigment, 53c...

An Asmat standing female figure Irian Jaya, Indonesia with linear carved decoration, with white and red/brown pigment, 71.5cm high. ...[more]

An Iatmul drum Middle Sepik River, Papua New Guinea of waisted form with an integral handle and carved decoration, with reptile skin, fibre and cl...

A Solomon Islands alms dish Melanesia with inlaid shell and gum and with a scalloped edge, with label to the underside Alms Dish as used in churc...

A Santa Cruz Islands feather currency tevau Solomon Islands, Melanesia honeyeater bird feathers (myzomela cardinalis) on a fibre strip, the back o...

A Solomon Islands pendant bakiha Melanesia shell, fibre, coloured glass beads, teeth and seeds, 23cm wide. Provenance Gerasimof Gallery, Noumea, ...

λ λA Solomon Islands kap kap ornament Melanesia shell and turtleshell, worked triangles, lines and four frigate birds, mounted on two discs, and w...

Ten Solomon Islands armbands Melanesia orchid fibre and red dye, two fibre ear ornaments, 25.5cm long, a quill nose ornament, 18cm long, a bamboo ...

A Solomon Islands club kila Melanesia with a medial ridge to the blade and the shaft with a natural and dyed banded fibre binding, 126.5cm long. ...

A Fiji club vunikau Melanesia with a worn root ball head to a tapering shaft with a worked grip having the remains of a fibre binding, 109cm long...

A Kanak club New Calendonia with a domed and pointed root head and the handle with fibre bound printed fabric, the end with collection number 68.2...

A Kanak bird head club New Caledonia the stylised head with relief eyes and the shaft with a raised grip, 68.5cm long. ...[more]

An Austral Islands paddle Polynesia with all-over carving of x's, crescents, niho and two suns to the base of the shaft, the terminal with eight '...

λ λA Fiji pole club bowai Melanesia of tapering cylindrical form with a domed end and a finely carved grip of lines and zig-zags in varoius patter...

A Fiji pole club bowai Melanesia of slightly tapered form with a domed end and a carved tavatava grip, one of the lines with six triangle notches,...

A Fiji pole club bowai Melanesia with a notch carved grip and with a series of scored 'kill' marks above and with a concave butt, pierced at the e...

A Marquesas Islands fan handle French Polynesia carved two seated tiki figures with hands placed on abdomens, 8.2cm long, on a wood base. (2) Pr...

A Marquesas Islands bowl and cover Polynesia ovoid with a circular foot and knob handle, with incised linear geometric decoration, 19.5cm high. (2...

A Tokelau Islands large fishing tackle box tuluma Polynesia kanava wood, with a cover and lugs with a sennit cord, 31.5cm high, 35cm wide. ...[mo...

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