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New Guinea Bull Roarer
Lot: 1092UnsoldNew Guinea Bull Roarer, Elema, Papuan Gulf Province, decorated with an ancestor motif on one side, traces of white lime pigment, with small hole at top for cord attachment, lg. 19 in. more ...
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New Guinea Feather Bag
Lot: 1093Sold for: $313$250New Guinea Feather Bag, c. 1900, cassowary feather woven bag, with paper label "1903 Cassoway feather bag. Aunty had brought back from Australia," 11 x 8 1/2 in. Provenance: Eleanor Tulman more ...
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New Guinea Coconut
Lot: 1094Sold for: $250$200New Guinea Coconut, coconut water container, decorated with relief carved designs, ht. 4 3/4 in. more ...
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Twenty-two Tribal Wood Stools
Lot: 1095Sold for: $625$500Twenty-two Tribal Wood Stools, including from Papua New Guinea, Sepik River region, sizes vary. more ...
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Miniature New Guinea Mask
Lot: 1096UnsoldMiniature New Guinea Mask, Madang Province, Ramu River delta, small maskette with pigments, pierced around the rim, probably for attachment to a bag, lg. 5 in. more ...
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Ceremonial Stone Axe Head
Lot: 1097UnsoldCeremonial Stone Axe Head, Highlands, New Guinea, probably a green argillite stone, (minor repair),lg. 9, wd. 8 in. more ...
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New Guinea Conch Shell Trumpet
Lot: 1098UnsoldNew Guinea Conch Shell Trumpet, Schouten Island, early to mid-20th century, pierced toward to top, with sooty blackened patina, (tip broken off),lg. 12 1/2 in. Provenance: The Rosman Rubel more ...
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New Guinea Coconut Cup
Lot: 1099Sold for: $125$100New Guinea Coconut Cup, Maprik, early/mid-20th century, a cut-out section of a coconut formed into a ladle or cup, decorated on the exterior with a human face and two birds, dark patina, lg. 4 3/4, more ...
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New Guinea Wood Mask, Mwai
Lot: 1100Sold for: $281$225New Guinea Wood Mask, Mwai, middle Sepik River, Sawos people, heavy wood ancestor mask, decorated with shells including nassa and cowrie, with boar tusks in nose and cassowary feathers around the more ...
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Four New Guinea Lime Spatulas
Lot: 1101Sold for: $88$70Four New Guinea Lime Spatulas, three fashioned from cassowary leg bones, and one from wood, lg, 13, 11, 9, and 6 3/4 in. Provenance: The Rosman collection, New York City. more ...
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New Guinea Ceremonial Figure, Minja
Lot: 1102Sold for: $250$200New Guinea Ceremonial Figure, Minja, upper Sepik River, Washkuk, abstracted head on a spike, represents a water spirit, and used in yam ceremonies, (minor wood loss),lg. 32, wd. 12 1/2 in. more ...
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New Guinea Bone Dagger
Lot: 1103Sold for: $125$100New Guinea Bone Dagger, 19th century, possibly Maprik, polished cassowary leg bone with two incised circular designs on one side, with metal stand, lg. 12 1/2 in. Provenance: Fortess collection, more ...
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New Guinea Wood Stool
Lot: 1104UnsoldNew Guinea Wood Stool, Sepik River, wood stool with carved abstract faces on each side, (age crack on the top),lg. 21, wd. 10, ht. 10 in. more ...
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New Guinea Woven Mask
Lot: 1105UnsoldNew Guinea Woven Mask, Blackwater River, woven cane helmet mask with dried clay and pigments, lg. 31, ht. 15 in. Provenance: Fortess collection, Honolulu, Hawaii; Mark Lissauer, Sydney, more ...
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West Papua Ceremonial Stone Axe Blade
Lot: 1106Sold for: $281$225West Papua Ceremonial Stone Axe Blade, Western Highlands, Mount Hagen area, large thin stone blade, used in ceremonial axes, lg. 13 3/4 in. more ...
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Four New Guinea Bone Lime Sticks
Lot: 1107Sold for: $175$140Four New Guinea Bone Lime Sticks, Sepik River region, made from cassowary leg bone, one decorated with fiber and nassa shells, lg. 15, 15, 13, and 12 1/2 in. Provenance: Fortess collection, more ...
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Three Melanesian Shell Disk Money Necklaces
Lot: 1108Sold for: $125$100Three Melanesian Shell Disk Money Necklaces, two shell disk necklaces from the Solomon Islands, the smaller from Huon Gulf, New Guinea, lg. 23, 11, and 8 in. Provenance: Fortess collection, more ...
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Four Melanesian Shell Necklaces
Lot: 1109Sold for: $106$85Four Melanesian Shell Necklaces, a Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, shell money necklace, two New Guinea nassa shell necklaces, and a short cowrie shell necklace from the Sepik River region, New more ...
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New Guinea Stone Head Club
Lot: 1110Sold for: $344$275New Guinea Stone Head Club, possibly Highlands region, the long wood shaft with pointed end, decorated with rattan and feathers, the stone the pineapple type, (minor loss to the stone, age cracks),more ...
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New Guinea Carrying Pole
Lot: 1111UnsoldNew Guinea Carrying Pole, Sepik River, mid-20th century, hardwood, decorated on each side with repeated geometric designs, dark patina, lg. 52 1/4 in. Provenance: Fortess collection, Honolulu, more ...
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Two New Guinea Stone Head Clubs
Lot: 1112Sold for: $531$425Two New Guinea Stone Head Clubs, Collingwood Bay, long wood shafts each with circular stone disk at one end, held on the shaft with collar of woven fiber, lg. 35 1/2 and 32 in. Provenance: more ...
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Six New Guinea Combs
Lot: 1113Sold for: $406$325Six New Guinea Combs, late 19th century, wood with bush string, splayed finials and each with eleven tines, lg. 8 3/4 to 8 in. Provenance: Fortess collection, Honolulu, Hawaii; Christie's, more ...
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New Guinea Yam Mask
Lot: 1114Sold for: $75$60New Guinea Yam Mask, Prince Alexander Mountains, Abelam, basketry mask made from the stem of a climbing vine, with applied pigments, used to decorate large yams, lg. 15 1/2, wd. 12 in. more ...
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West Papua Stone Adze, Jaga
Lot: 1115Sold for: $106$85West Papua Stone Adze, Jaga, Dani people, Baliem valley, wood haft with greenstone wrapped with orchid fiber, (age cracks),lg. 23 in. more ...
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Three New Guinea Stone Adze Blades
Lot: 1116Sold for: $63$50Three New Guinea Stone Adze Blades, lg. 6 1/4, 5 1/2, and 5 1/4 in. more ...
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Massim Lime Spatula
Lot: 1117Sold for: $281$225Massim Lime Spatula, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, early 20th century, clapper type, decorated on either side with incised lime-filled scrolling and terminating in a fish head, lg. 12 1/2 more ...
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Massim Lime Spatula
Lot: 1118Sold for: $188$150Massim Lime Spatula, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, long elegant palmwood spatula with high ridgeline on either side at the handle, and abstract scrollwork in the center, lg. 30 in. more ...
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Massim Paddle Finial and Betel Nut Mortar
Lot: 1119UnsoldMassim Paddle Finial and Betel Nut Mortar, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, scrollwork finial cut from a canoe paddle, with a betel nut mortar, finial with wood base, lg. 7 1/2 and 5 3/4 in. more ...
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Massim Betel Nut Mortar
Lot: 1120Sold for: $313$250Massim Betel Nut Mortar, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, late 19th/early 20th century, palmwood with incised scrollwork designs filled with lime pigments, lg. 4 3/4 in. Provenance: Fortess more ...
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New Guinea Wood Pigment Dish
Lot: 1121UnsoldNew Guinea Wood Pigment Dish, Massim, boat-shaped pigment dish, incised with panels of scrolls and zigzags heightened with lime and with traces of reddish brown pigment, dark patina, lg. 12 in. more ...