Fine Antiquities, Tribal & Aboriginal Art

KOREWORI CULT HOOK (yipwon), carved wood with stylised human form with opposing rib like protrusions, PNG, 180cm

KOREWORI CULT HOOK (yipwon), carved wood with stylised human form with opposing rib like protrusions, PNG, 149cm

KOREWORI CULT HOOK (yipwon), finely carved series of serrated rib like protrusions focussed around stylised central motif, PNG, 121cm

KOREWORI CULT HOOK (yipwon), carved wood with stylised human form with opposing rib like protrusions, with two head carvings, some damage to protrusio

A MONUMENTAL KOREWORI CULT HOOK (yipwon), carved wood with stylised human form with opposing rib like protrusions, surrounding a central carved human

AN EARLY KWOMA ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENT, early 20th Century, of museum significance, the wood section sculpted in with classic ancestor motifs in relief,

A SUPERB ABELAM LINTEL, c.1960s, of wood in classic robust form, the edge pierced for attachment, decorated with classic ancestor figures in relief, p

A SUPERB MONUMENTAL WOSERA SCULPTURE, c.1960s, of wood sculpted in the classic form of a male yam ancestor, decorated with polychrome pigments, weathe

AN OLD KWOMA ANCESTOR SCULPTURE (mindja), of wood sculpted in classic tapering ovoid form with openwork medial ridge, pierced eyes and mouth below a p

AN OLD PAPUAN GULF ANCESTOR BOARD (gope), c.1960s of wood in ovoid form with the classic figurative motif of an ancestor visage to anterior, projectin