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Auction House:
Mossgreen Auctions (No longer trading)
Number of lots recorded:96
Lots with images:96
Prices available:96
Category:
New Guinean
LotDescriptionPriceImage
*** A stone Tapa Beater, New Guinea. Height 34 cm ***
*** Two New Guinea stone axe blades, the smaller with painted label 'Adze, New Guinea ' and from the Lieutenant General Pitt Rivers collection; 1890s 17 cm and 13 cm ***
*** A Middle Sepik spirit figure, Png, circa 1970s ***
*** An Asmat shield, New Guinea, 133 cm ***
*** A painted turtle shell mask, middle/upper Sepik, perspex and oak case 52 x 45 cm ***
*** A Sepik painted and shell inlaid figural hook. 94 cm high ***
*** Two bowls, Boiken People, Papua New Guinea, (early twentieth century), carved hardwood, 45 cm; 46 cm diameter (2). Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney ***
*** Painted mask, New Guinea, 63 x 19 cm. Provenance: Collected 1946 ***
*** A large Sepik carved wood figure. 69 cm high ***
*** Three carved and painted wood birds, New Guinea, 66 cm to 49 cm ***
*** An over-modeled bone dagger, Sepik, New Guinea, 33 cm ***
*** One mask, Umboi, New Guinea, 60 cm high ***
*** A Sepik carved wood mask, with painted decoration. 68 cm high ***
*** A carved and painted canoe splashboard from a sea-going canoe, Trobriand Islands 71 cm high, 56 cm wide ***
*** A New Guinea polychrome decorated vase with two apertures 12 cm high ***
*** Three large Papua New Guinea Sepik River carved face masks. 86 cm (largest height) ***
*** Three Papua New Guinea Sepik River carved figures. 92 cm (largest height) ***
*** Two Papua New Guinea masks, carved timber shell, feather & fibre, mid to late 20th century. 89 & 90 cm. ***
*** A spatula, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea (mid twentieth century), carved hardwood, 39 cm long ***
*** A Sepik Gabel mask, 70 cm ***
*** Rare Sepik wand, 65 cm high ***
*** A large Sepik figure, Papua New Guinea, 131 cm ***
*** A collection of five Papua New Guinea Sepik River carved masks and a food hook. 74 cm (largest height) ***
*** A Sepik figure, 129 cm high ***
*** A Massim brown ebony mortar and pestle well-carved with a pair of adorned squatting figures supporting the cup, good patina 16.5 cm high (mortar) ***
*** An earthenware head, Papua New Guinea (mid-late twentieth century), earthenware, 13 cm high ***
*** A pair of New Guinean stone garden markers ***
*** Two Papua New Guinean masks, 48 cm high (largest) ***
*** A Sepik River food hook and mask, 94 cm high (food hook) ***
*** A large Papua New Guinean clay 'Sero' style cooking pot, middle Sepik River origin, 55 cm high, 42 cm diameter ***
*** A large painted Sepik figure, 75 cm high ***
*** Two early New Guinea shell Trumpets 30 x 26 cm, fine patina and with circular mouthpiece ***
*** Papua New Guinea Sepik river hook, carved wood with shell eye decoration, 92 x 39 cm, 92 x 39 cm ***
*** A New Guinea polychrome decorated mask vase 18 cm high ***
*** A fine New Guinea greenstone axe blade possibly used as a bride price due to its large size and the fine quality of the stone 25 cm ***
*** A Yam mask with Shell, Abelam, Middle Sepik River, Papua New Guinea (mid twentieth century), rattan, natural earth pigment and conical shell, 28 cm high ***
*** A collection of five Papua New Guinea Sepik River carved masks. 39 cm (largest height) ***
*** A shell armband, Papua New Guinea shell rings, rattan, cowries. Provenance: Ex Chris Boylan ***
*** An Abelam painted wicker mask, Maprik Hills New Guinea, 38 cm high ***
*** A yam mask, Abelam, Middle Sepik River, Papua New Guinea (early-mid twentieth century), rattan and natural earth pigments, 18.5 cm high ***
*** A carved bowl, Tami Island, Papua New Guinea (mid twentieth century), carved hardwood and natural earth pigments, 56 cm long ***
*** A Papuan New Guinea food hook;carved wood,shell inlay and rattan;43.5 cm high ***
*** A Sepik RIver dance shield, circa 1960s ***
*** A Sepik New Guinea figure panel, 82 cm high ***
*** A Sepik painted wood mask. 55 cm high ***
*** A Sepik painted wicker yam mask ***
*** Sepik river mask, mixed media including boneshells and feathers, Papua New Guinea. 44 cm high ***
*** Four Papua New Guinea artifacts comprising a cassowary mounted ceremonial head-dress, a club, a carved figure and a carved ceremonial horn ***
*** Tribal Artifacts: group comprising Cook Islands seated figure; carved timber statues & masks from Papua New Guinea & Africa; carved hippopotamus tooth; pair carved bone figures; lime spatula. Mixed condition & age. (14 items) ***
*** A Papuan Echidna quill and twine necklace ***
*** A New Guinea n terracotta figural vessel ***
*** A Massim ceremonial axe Milne Bay Province, Eastern New Guinea ***
*** A New Guinea wicker covered shield Oro Province ***
*** A Sepik painted and feather mounted mask ***
*** A large carved board, upper Sepik New Guinea 42 x 200 cm ***
*** A New Guinea polychrome painted mask vase 16 cm high ***
*** Two Massim mortar and Pestles, each with signs of considerable age 24 cm & 12 cm (mortar only ***
*** A group of Sepik river Arrows some with finely carved shafts and other decoration ***
*** A Massim walking stick well carved with figures and masks 91.5, cm; and a Sepik walking staff, the upper part carved with a full human figure, 94 cm ***
*** A Sepik tribal piece, Waskukli Ranges, 1961, Malina Tribe, 22 cm high. Provenance: Purchased from Jim Davidson ***
*** A Sepik gable mask, 12 cm ***
*** Carved tribal figure, New Guinean, 61 cm high ***
*** A tortoiseshell mask, Sepik, New Guinea, 36 cm high ***
*** A large New Guinea n painted wood shell decorated and feather and grass embellished ceremonial mask .80 cm high ***
*** A cassowary bone dagger, Sepik, 42 cm long ***
*** A Sepik mask, 77 cm high ***
*** A carved wood hornbill, Maprik New Guinea, 45 cm high ***
*** A Feasting bowl. Schouten Islands, Papua New Guinea. Carved wood and pigment. 56 cm x 28 cm x 8.2 cm ***
*** A large New Guinea figure, 75 cm ***
*** A carved bird and stone carved spearthrower, Abelam, Papua New Guinea, (early twentieth century), carved wood and natural pigments, 27.2 cm; 21.4 cm high (2). Provenance: Michael Hamson, United States of America. Private Collection, Sydney ***
*** Two clubs, Trobriand Islands (circa 1900), carved hardwood. 56.5 cm & 67 cm long ***
*** FRAZER, James George: 'The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead. Vol. I: 'The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia', 495pp; Vol. II: 'The Belief Among the Polynesians', 447pp; Vol. III… ***
*** A Papuan Gulf Gope board ***
*** A New Guinea black terracotta vase 18 cm high ***
*** A Massim staff, 140.5 cm length ***
*** An Abelam painted wicker mask, Maprik Hills New Guinea, 37 cm high ***
*** A pair of over-modeled bone dagger with faces and emu feathers, Sepik, New Guinea, 49 and 45 cm ***
*** Two masks, Sepik, New Guinea. 57 and 62 cm high ***
*** An Png adze, 52.5 cm high ***
*** A carved Sepik figure, 9 cm ***
*** A Sepik painted wood mask carving.124 cm long, 38 cm wide ***
*** A Sepik figure, New Guinea, 49 cm ***
*** Paddles: carved wood, Papua New Guinea origin, 20th century. 120 cm to 180 cm. ***
*** A bowl in the form of a turtle and a carved wooden pig, early 20th century, Massim, Eastern New Guinea. 42 and 20 cm long. Together with a carved wood pig ***
*** Two bone daggers, New Guinea. 32 and 23 cm high ***
*** A bowl, Highlands, New Guinea, 53 cm wide ***
*** A New Guinean staff, 206 cm high ***
*** Collection of World War I and World War II Allied forces badges, buttons and patches, collected by Fred McDonald (6th Batt. A.I.F.) who was an original Gallipoli lander on the 25th of April 1915, he was wounded and shipped to Malta and then on to England.… ***
*** A Sepik painted cane and grass mask decoration. 27 cm high ***
*** A Kana shell, New Guinea highlands, 50 cm wide ***
*** A Trobriand Islands carved lime spatula. 35 cm long ***
*** Food hook: Papua New Guinea origin with painted decoration, 20th century. 125 cm. ***
*** A New Guinea green stone axe ***
*** A New Guinea painted wooden comb ***
*** A Png food pounder, 50 cm length ***
*** A Middle Sepik (Png) gable mask of wood, 63 cm high ***