- MARQUESAS ISLANDS FIGURATIVE FAN HOLDER
Marquesas Islands figurative fan holder, 19th century, rising on a custom stand, 4"h Provenance: ex. Harvard Art Historian Harry Bober...
[more like this] - WHALING SHIP WANDERER OIL PAINTINGOil
painting of a whale ship, large pod of whales, and 3 long boats titled WHALING SHIP WANDERER OFF THE MARQUESAS. Unsigned, has Treadwell Collection and restoration tag verso....
[more like this] - LATE 19TH C. MARQUESAS ISLANDS WOOD
& STONE ADZE**Originally Listed At $1500**
Oceania, French Polynesia, Marquesas Islands, Enata peoples, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A hefty utilitarian tool known...
[more like this] - STONE POUNDER
MARQUESAS ISLANDS, FRENCH
POLYNESIA basalt, of gradually tapering form with rounded base, patination to the handle from use, remnants of an old label on the reverse19.5cm tallPrivate collection, Scotland,...
[more like this] - TWO 19TH C BOOKS RELATED TO WHALING
AND CAPTIVITYIN THE PACIFIC TO INCLUDE TORREY'S NARRATIVE OR THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF WILLIAM TORREY BY WILLIAM TORREY, BOSTON, 1848. INCLUDED ARE DESCRIPTIONS OF TORREY'S...
[more like this] - 1894 MAP FLORIDA COUNTIES, HAND COLORED1894
County Map of Florida by A. L. Smith. Inset shows "Southern Portion" of Florida including individually labeled keys, continuing on through the Marquesas Keys. Very good condition...
[more like this] - (2) OCEANIC CARVED WOOD WALKING STICKS
Marquesas Island, the larger cane with dark patina, the round tapering stick squaring off towards the top and relief carved with masks and leaf fronds, topped with an orb...
[more like this] - GROUP OF 3 LARGE OCEANIA CARVED WOOD
TIKI FIGURES Polynesia, possibly Marquesas Island. Group of three large carved wood figural pieces. Unmarked. Accompanied by two pedestals. Approx. h. 61.5" (tallest), h....
[more like this] - UNUSUAL DECORATED WHALE RIB 19TH CENTURY
LENGTH APPROX. 46".UNUSUAL DECORATED WHALE RIB, 19th Century, Nearly entirely covered with brown-black inked or painted pictographs including palm trees, whales, ships,...
[more like this] - RICHARD LINDMAR (1867-1956) PORTRAIT
OF A MARQUESAFramed oil on canvas painting, Portrait of the Marquesa de Pravia, plaque inscribed Richard Lindmar (German, 1867-1956), dated 1898, apparently unsigned, sight:...
[more like this] - MAP "POLYNESIA. ISLANDS IN THE PACIFIC
OCEAN" CIRCA 1851 STEEL ENGRAVING ON PAPER, SHEET SIZE 10.5" X 14.25". UNFRAMED. OCEAN", Circa 1851, Published by J. & F. Tallis, London and New York. Drawn and engraved...
[more like this] - RARE 16 PAGE WHALING MANUSCRIPT, 1834,extensively
detailed. Instructions for Captain John Egbert Howell (1813-1840) of the whaling ship Telegraph, Sag Harbor, New York, bound for the Pacific. Signed by his brothers, agents/owners...
[more like this] - MARQUESAS ISLANDS PAEKAHA KING'S HEADDRESS
Possibly 19th c., Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, conch and tortoise shells, fibers, mother-of-pearl, the curved rectangular dark shell plaques incised with geometer...
[more like this] - Bowl carved "In which Princess Nahienaena's
feather lei was returned to Hawaii from the Marquesas by Reverend James K. Kekela in 1899". 8"h.x13"w....
[more like this] - South Pacific Fan Handle, Ke'e Marquesas
Islands, first half 19th century, mellow brown patina, tapering spike for fan attachment, three rectangular plinths framing addorsed tikis, one tiki grasping double-headed...
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