- Papuan Gulf Gope Spirit Board, Papua
New Guinea, 20th century carved wood with natural pigments height 32 in — 81.3 cm...
[more like this] - Yipwon/Yiman Hook Spirit Figure, Korewori
River, Papua New Guinea, 20th century carved wood with natural pigments, includes stand height 40.25 in — 102.2 cm...
[more like this] - AFRICAN BLACKWATER RIVER SPIRIT FIGURE
20" x 9" x 3?" Carved wood spirit frigure f=rom the Blackwater River, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea mounted on wood base....
[more like this] - PAPUA NEW GUINEA CARVED WOOD SPIRIT
FIGURE Papua New Guinea carved wooden spirit figure with natural pigments. 24" H x 8.5" W....
[more like this] - LARGE OCEANIC CARVED BOARD PAPUA NEW
GUINEALarge Oceanic figural carved wood board/shield, Papua New Guinea, possibly Gope ancestral board, of elliptical form, carved central figure of a spirit, flanked by semi...
[more like this] - Papuan Gulf Gope Spirit Board, Papua
New Guinea, mid 20th century carved wood with natural pigments height 77 in — 195.6 cm...
[more like this] - NEW IRELAND MASK OR HEAD, HAVING ORIGINAL
PAINT AND HAI...New Ireland Mask or Head, having original paint and hair, depicting jumping fish on top as well as black snakes circling the face, small section missing from...
[more like this] - PAPUAN GULF SPIRIT FIGUREPapuan Gulf
Spirit Figure Carved and painted Papua New Guinea wood Height 33 inches (as is)
Condition:
All lots are sold "AS IS" The condition of lots can vary widely and are unlikely...
[more like this] - HOOK FIGURE, SEPIK RIVERHook figure,
sometimes also known as 'Samban", carved with both male and female elements, with red and black pigment. Typical geometric design at back of neck, mask-like face, standing...
[more like this] - KANDIMBONG ANCESTOR FIGUREAncestor figure,
Kandimbong, large, with conical headdress and mask-like face. Simple, clean lines, yet very expressive.
Traditional Lower Sepik River figures, representing clan founders,...
[more like this] - DOUBLE FIGURE, LOWER SEPIKLower Sepik
River Figure, double figure. Rare. Main figure with mask-like face and large slanted, oval stylized eyes, and smaller figure at below with similar stylized, oval, slanted...
[more like this] - LOWER SEPIK RIVER MASK, KOPAR / ANGORAM
STYLECarved Wooden Mask with very long, pointed nose. According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this kind of mask with its long, pointed beak-like nose is typical of Lower...
[more like this] - OPENWORK FIGURE, KOPAR / ANGORAMOpenwork
carved figure, Kopar / Angoram style, with white stripes, red and yellow pigment, shell and rope ornamentation. Anthropomorphic.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art describes...
[more like this] - KAKAR SPEARKakar spear, with rattan
and rope band, face of ancestor figure. Kakar spears are some of the most sacred and important features of Murik society, as they are thought to possess spiritual powers to...
[more like this] - LOWER SEPIK RIVER MASK, KOPAR / ANGORAM
STYLECarved Wooden Mask, long pointed nose, stylized.
Damage and repair to bottom chin area.
According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this kind of mask with its long,...
[more like this] - PAPUA NEW GUINEA, LARGE GARAMUT DRUM
Sepik River Region, coral, white and black pigment on carved wood, the long hollowed canoe-form body decorated with incised circular pattern and painted link scroll, with...
[more like this] - PAPUA NEW GUINEA, LARGE CROCODILE SPIRIT
CARVING Possibly Sepik River, carved and painted wood with cowry shell and pigment, detailed ribs and vertebrae, with crocodile head at one end and animal with bared teeth...
[more like this] - TURAMA PEOPLE, GOPE SPIRIT BOARD Late
19th c., Papua New Guinea, oval shaped relief carved wood with white and brown pigment, depicting an imunu spirit, 51.5"h x 11"w...
[more like this] - TURAMA PEOPLE, GOPE SPIRIT BOARD Likely
19th c., Papua New Guinea, relief carved wood with white and brown pigment, 51.5"h x 11"w...
[more like this] - PAPUA NEW GUINEA CARVED WOOD CHIEF CANOE
PROW Oceanic / Papua New Guinea. Lower Sepik crocodile and spirit figure canoe prow on stand. Provenance: From a Global Canadian Collection....
[more like this] - TWO PAPUA NEW GUINEAN CARVED WOOD ITEMSTwo
Papua New Guinean carved wood items, Two works: A carved wood crocodile spoon Fourth-Quarter 20th Century; Sepik River, Papua New Guinea The stylized crocodile carving...
[more like this] - PAPUA NEW GUINEA JUGATE SPIRIT FIGURE,
CIRCA 1930 Iatmul Peoples, Middle Sepik River, Ancestral Spirit carrying Mask on Back, the figure reaching up to touch his tongue, carved and painted wood, of one piece, slightly...
[more like this] - YIPWON FIGURE, SEPIC RIVER REGION 1st
half 20th c., Papua New Guinea, carved wood with pigment, representation of a primordial hunting spirit, in abstract human form, on custom mount, 23.25"h x 2.5"w x 3.5"d (figure),...
[more like this] - INYAI-EWA PEOPLE, ARIPA MALE FIGURE
18th c., Papua, New Guinea, carved wood with white pigment, representing spirits to serve as hunting helpers, carbon dated to c. 1735 (copy of test from Univ. of Illinois...
[more like this] - AN ABELAM PAINTED CARVED WOOD MASKAn
Abelam painted carved wood mask, 20th century; Abelam Peoples, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea Appears unmarked Created for the celebration of the yam harvest, the...
[more like this] - (2) Papua New Guinea tribal masks to
include mask carved wood heart framed face, the holes running around the perimeter of this mask would originally have held a beard and hair of grass, raised on stand, 18"H...
[more like this] - OCEANIC SPIRIT BOARD, POSSIBLY PAPUA
NEW GUINEA Oceanic spirit board, possibly from Papua New Guinea, polychrome hand-carved wood. 65.5" H x 13.5" W...
[more like this] - Mai Spirit Board (Gope) From Papua New
Guinea Carved wood in the form of an elongated mask generously covered in pigment and cowrie shells applied pigments. Includes a custom metal stand. The Mai use spirit boards...
[more like this] - Papua New Guinea Sepik River Crocodile
Mask, ca. 20th Century A hand carved wood mask of a clan spirit or totem crocodile (pukpuk) with a bird, painted with natural pigments and decorated with cowery and snail...
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