- KORWAR CARVED WOOD ANCESTOR SCULPTURE
Korwar Carved Wood Ancestor Sculpture, Indonesian, Melanesian, or Papua New Guinea, depiction of an ancestor figure propping his chin on a shield, wearing a crown, single...
[more like this] - MELANESIAN TRIBAL MASK AND AN AFRICAN
CARVED WATER BUFF...Melanesian Tribal Mask and an African Carved Water Buffalo Horn. Mandagu, Manabara, Tambenum Village, Sepik River Basin. Mask size: 21" x 17" (53 x 43...
[more like this] - HUGE 20TH C. MELANESIAN VANUATU SLIT
DRUM / TAMTAMOceania, Melanesia, Vanuatu, ca. early 20th century CE. A splendid and sizeable slit drum or tamtam, skillfully hand-carved from butterscotch-hued wood in the...
[more like this] - 19TH C. SOLOMON ISLANDS SHELL KAPKAP
(HEAD / PECTORAL)**Originally Listed At $1000**
Oceania, Melanesia, Solomon Islands, ca. 19th to early 20th century CE. A beautiful example of a kapkap, a head or pectoral...
[more like this] - LEDOUX NOTES 1932 FIRTH FIELD AND CG
SELIGMANNNotes typed by Louis Pierre Ledoux on 1932 R. Firth's field notes, and 1910 C.G. Seligmann's "The Mels of British N.G..."
Typed notes entitled "Field Method: notes...
[more like this] - LEAFLETS MUSEUM NATURAL HISTORY, TOBACCOThree
leaflets by Albert B. Lewis, Assistant Curator of Melanesian Ethnology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. 1923 "The Use of Sago in New Guinea"; "1924 "Use of Tobacco...
[more like this] - A Collection of Five Related Oceanic
Art and Culture Publications. Sculpture Monumentale d'Oceanie. Sculpture monumentale de Nouvelle Guinee et des Nouvelles Hebrides. Catalogue d'exposition Galerie Jeanne Bucher...
[more like this] - (10) SOLOMON ISLANDS MELANESIAN FISHING
LURES Carved mother-of-pearl, turtle shell hook and twine, 3.5"l (largest)...
[more like this] - PAPUA NEW GUINEA WOOD CARVED STAFF,
LIZARD Oceania, 20th century. Carved wood staff, likely Melanesian, with lizard motif. Apparently unmarked. Approx. h. 51.25". Provenance: From the Estate of Jack Warner...
[more like this] - A MELANESIAN FETISH PURSEA Melanesian
fetish purse, 20th Century; Western New Guinea The woven natural fiber bag adorned with sea shells, beads, and feathers 20" H x 9" W x 3.25" D approximately Dimensions:...
[more like this] - LEAFLETS MUSEUM NATURAL HISTORY, TOBACCOThree
leaflets by Albert B. Lewis, Assistant Curator of Melanesian Ethnology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. 1923 "The Use of Sago in New Guinea"; "1924 "Use of Tobacco...
[more like this] - MELANESIAN POLYCHROME TREE ROOT MASKMelanesian
Polychrome Tree Root Mask, early 20th c., Hog Harbor, Espiritu Santo Island, Vanautu, New Hebrides, h. 11 1/2 in., w. 7 in., d. 3 3/8 in....
[more like this] - MELANESIAN DOUBLE GOURD VESSEL WITH
LID Oceania, gourds carved with bands of repeating patterns, the incised areas filled with light brown pigment, the two gourds joined by wound fiber braces, a 1.25"dia carved...
[more like this] - Melanesian Rain Cape woven of palm fiber
resembling a vest with cape over shoulders length 26''. Property of the Children's Museum of Indianapolis Condition: Excellent but with wear....
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