Fine Tribal Aboriginal Art and International Antiquities

A FINE AND EARLY MASSIM WALKING STICK, of wood in slender tapering circular section, decorated with classic figurative ancestor motifs, smooth glossy

AN ETHNOGRAPHIC MASSIM SAGO SCOOP, of wood, the circular section shaft decorated with incised motifs above a narrow projecting terminal, old sennit bi

A FINE MALEKULA CEREMONIAL HEADDRESS, the woven fibre and bamboo frame overmodeled with clay, sculpted in the form of an ancestor visage, decorated wi

A CEREMONIAL MALEKULA ANCESTOR MASK, of earth set fibre and wood, the convex visage decorated with classic polychrome pigments, Vanuatu, 40x16cm Prove

A FINE GOROKA CHEST ORNAMENT, the woven fibre and cane frame with multiple cowrie shell ornaments, PNG, 48x10cm

A SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS MAGIC KINA (somp), of wood in crescent form decorated with resin set mother of pearl, bone and shell tassels, pierced with woven

AN OLD YANGORU BRIDE PRICE (talipun), the woven cane ornament in classic abstract form, earth encrusted, decorated with polychrome pigments and feathe

AN ETHNOGRAPHIC WASHKUK DAGGER, of bone, decorated with incised geometric motifs, resin set shell to apex, smooth glossy patina, PNG, 34cm Provenance:

TWO MAPRIK ABELAM BODY ORNAMENTS (karahut), of shell embroided woven fibre with boar tusk ornaments, earth encrusted, decorated with polychrome pigmen

TWO FINE ABELAM BONE DAGGERS, decorated with classic incised ancestor motifs, one with split shaft, smooth glossy patina, PNG, 29-27cm (2) Provenance: