Fine Tribal, Aborigional Art and International Antiquities

A FINE COASTAL RAMU STEERING OAR of wood, in robust form the broad blade of slender section decorated with classic raised motifs below a projecting

A HUMBOLDT BAY CANOE PROW (tablu wusa) of wood, remnant polychrome pigment, Irian Jaya, 64cm

A HUMBOLDT BAY CANOE PROW (tablu wusa) of wood, remnant polychrome pigment, Irian Jaya, 40x34cm

AN OLD ASMAT CANOE PROW FRAGMENT of wood in classic openwork form depicting a stylised male with bird, remnant polychrome pigments, encrusted and w

AN OLD ASMAT CANOE PROW FRAGMENT of wood in classic openwork form depicting a stylised male with resin set seed eyes and bird motifs, remnant polyc

AN ASMAT CANOE PROW FRAGMENT of wood sculpted in robust form with a stylised male below bird motif at apex, black pigment encrusted, Irian Jaya, 10

A SPLENDID COSTAL ASMAT CANOE PROW FRAGMENT of openwork wood in classic figurative and abstract form, decorated with polychrome pigments, Irian Jay

A RAMU RIVER CANOE PROW SECTION of wood, the truncated bow sculpted with a classic ancestor motif in relief below a crocodile visage, remnant polyc

A FINE AND RARE ASMAT DANCE COSTUME of woven cane and fibre with grass tassels, adorned with wood, feather, seed and fibre ornaments to upper secti

A SUPERB ASMAT DANCE COSTUME the woven cane bodice above a fibre tasselled skirt together with a headdress of slender section open work wood in the