- AFRICAN OCEANIC NEW GUINEA PAINTED HOHOA
BOARDAfrican Oceanic New Guinea painted wood board/ shield, possibly a Hohoa spirit/ ancestral board, having narrow elliptical form, geometric and figural images throughout,...
[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] - FINE TAINO STONE AXE W/ ZEMI FACEPre-Columbian,
Caribbean, Dominican Republic, Taino, ca. 15th century CE. This is an amazing and fine polished stone effigy axe featuring an abstract zoomorphic or anthropomorphic zemi figure...
[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] - LARGE NATIVE AMERICAN TULAROSA POTTERY
JARNative American, southwestern United States, New Mexico, Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) period, Tularosa, ca. 900 to 1450 CE. A stunning pottery bowl of an impressive scale,...
[more like this] - 19TH C. TLINGIT / HAIDA BONE PENDANT
EAGLE HEAD SHAMANNative American, Pacific Northwest Coast, United States or Canada, Tlingit or Haida people, ca. 19th century CE. A marine mammal bone amulet and pendant in...
[more like this] - SIGNED TONY ABEYTA MIXED MEDIA - "MORNING
STAR PEOPLE"Tony Abeyta (Navajo, b. 1965). "Morning Star People" mixed media on paper, n.d. Signed on lower right. "Morning Star People" is a captivating mixed media composition...
[more like this] - EARLY 20TH C. PLAINS TRIBE CHEYENNE
GHOST DANCE DRESSNative American, Western United Sates, Plains Tribes, Cheyenne people, ca. early 20th century CE. An incredibly important piece of religious attire, a cotton...
[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] - 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] - PAPUAN TRIBE, BIOMA ANCESTRAL SPIRIT
FIGURE 19th/20th c., New Guinea, carved wood with red earth pigment, sheet metal necklace, the standing male figure featuring round head with pierced nose, mounted on black...
[more like this] - AFRICAN MUMUYE TRIBE ANCESTRAL CARVED
WOOD FIGURE Africa, NigeriaEarly 20th CenturyStanding figure with elongated torso, wide eyes, and swaying arms. These figures were used to communicate with spirits as well...
[more like this] - Contemporary tribal items including:
Spirit Mask original hand carved piece from Tambanum Middle Sepik River New Guinea 1964-1969 period with boar's tusks and cassowary bird feathers 36'' h. x 14'' w. (Certificate...
[more like this] - Unusual Chinese Ancestral Portrait,
19th century, the large scroll painted with forty-one people representing five generations, all dressed in semi-formal robes, seven of the men and eight of the women wearing...
[more like this] - Carved Gope Board New Guinea Possibly
Ewta or Fayit River Region ca. 19th Century Carved lozenge shaped wood panel the front with raised relief carving of figure with pigments of lime red core and other native...
[more like this] - A Large Ancestral Figure Dogon Mali
Region Male ancestral figure carved open work in wood having been personalized with knotted cord and hair. Usually representing an ancestor or spirit these figures were treated...
[more like this] - Fine and Unusual Chinese Multi-Generational
Ancestor Portrait, 19th century, gouache on paper, depicting fifteen persons probably representing six generations, all seated before an ancestral altar with spirit table,...
[more like this] - A 20th Century Chinese (Hunan Province)
carved and painted wooden ancestral figure (a spirit medium with a concealed chamber containing a paper dedication ''To Mr Jung'' a written charm and a cloth sack containing...
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