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Santa Cruz Dance Staff, Napa
Lot: 68UnsoldSanta Cruz Dance Staff, Napa, Solomon Islands, hardwood, in the form of a highly stylized canoe, with two raised opposing abstracted ancestral heads, the whole decorated with classical linear ...
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Rennell Islands Club, Baukiana
Lot: 69UnsoldRennell Islands Club, Baukiana, Bellona Island, Solomon Islands, 20th century, hardwood, and rattan, the strapped stone head carved into eight blunt points, lg. 14 in. Provenance: Private ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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Rennell Islands Club, Baukiana
Lot: 1143Sold for: $563$450Rennell Islands Club, Baukiana, Bellona Island, Solomon Islands, late 19th/early 20th century, hardwood, rattan, and sennit fiber, the strapped head carved into eight blunt points, lg. 15 1/4 in. ...
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Solomon Islands Feather Money Baton, Ndabma
Lot: 1146Sold for: $188$150Solomon Islands Feather Money Baton, Ndabma, Santa Cruz Islands, red feathers attached to a thin stick, lg. 13 3/4 in. Provenance: Norman Hurst Gallery, Cambridge, Mass ...
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Four Melanesian Combs
Lot: 1147Sold for: $375$300Four Melanesian Combs, three from the Solomon Islands, and one bamboo, from Papua New Guinea, lg. 9 1/2, 8 3/4, 8, and 7 in. Provenance: The Rosman collection, New York City. ...
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Solomon Islands Walking Stick
Lot: 1148Sold for: $125$100Solomon Islands Walking Stick, 20th century, ebony wood stick, with inlaid nautilus shell decoration, lg. 36 in. ...
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Solomon Islands Shell Currency Ring, Erenge
Lot: 1149Sold for: $344$275Solomon Islands Shell Currency Ring, Erenge, New Georgia, early 20th century, carved from tridacna shell, used as a form of currency in exchange transactions, pierced twice, dia. 6 1/8 in. ...
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Two Solomon Islands Shell Currency Rings, Erenge
Lot: 1150Sold for: $200$160Two Solomon Islands Shell Currency Rings, Erenge, New Georgia, early 20th century, carved from tridacna shell, used as a form of currency in exchange transactions, dia. 5 and 4 3/4 in. ...
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Solomon Islands Paddle Club
Lot: 1151UnsoldSolomon Islands Paddle Club, San Cristobal, 19th century, paddle type with central raised ridgeline on the blade and pointed butt end, lg. 46 in. ...
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Solomon Islands Wood Bowl
Lot: 1152Sold for: $225$180Solomon Islands Wood Bowl, San Cristobal Island, small elliptical bowl with pedestal base, painted black and heavily decorated with inlaid nautilus shells, each end ornamented with the front end of ...
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Solomon Islands Wood Bowl
Lot: 1153Sold for: $344$275Solomon Islands Wood Bowl, San Cristobal Island, elliptically-shaped bowl with pedistal base, painted black and heavily detailed with inlaid nautilus shells, each end ornamented with the front end ...
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Solomon Islands Wood Figure
Lot: 1154Sold for: $531$425Solomon Islands Wood Figure, Central Solomon Islands, carved from an ebony hardwood, consists of a seated anthropomorphic figure with hands held under the chin, mouth open with teeth, the back ...
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Solomon Islands Shell Funerary Plaque
Lot: 1155Sold for: $1,063$850Solomon Islands Shell Funerary Plaque, Choiseul, Western Solomon Islands, flat plaque of tridacna shell, decorated with two friezes of circles, separated by a frieze of anthropomorphic figures and ...
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Solomon Islands Sea Spirit Figure, Karamanua
Lot: 1156Sold for: $1,375$1,100Solomon Islands Sea Spirit Figure, Karamanua, standing figure with the head of a shark with up-swept tail, holding a shark upside down, decorated with shell inlay, varnished surface, (missing one ...
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Nine Items of Pacific Jewelry
Lot: 1157Sold for: $169$135Nine Items of Pacific Jewelry, a shell disk belt from the Solomon Islands, shell nose ornament from the Solomons, two fiber earsticks with bamboo container from the Solomons, a shell nose ring, ...
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Two Solomon Islands Wood Clubs, Kila
Lot: 1158Sold for: $200$160Two Solomon Islands Wood Clubs, Kila, Malaita, 19th century, two long straight hardwood clubs with raised central ridgeline on the blade, lg. 50 and 44 3/4 in. ...
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Two Solomon Islands Shell Armbands
Lot: 1159Sold for: $281$225Two Solomon Islands Shell Armbands, tridacna shell, dia. 4 and 3 3/4 in. Provenance: Fortess collection, Honolulu, Hawaii; Mark Lissauer collection, Sydney, Australia. ...
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Solomon Islands Wood Club
Lot: 1160UnsoldSolomon Islands Wood Club, Malaita, 20th century, short hardwood club with detailed incised decoration and shell inlay, (some shell inlay missing), lg. 25 1/2 in. ...
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Solomon Islands Shell Breast Ornament
Lot: 1161Sold for: $344$275Solomon Islands Shell Breast Ornament, Malaita, early 20th century, pearl shell crescent ornament, with serrated bottom edge and shell decorations, with fiber cord, (minor rim chips), wd. 6 1/2 ...
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Rennell Islands Club, Baukiana
Lot: 1040Sold for: $2,375$1,900Rennell Islands Club, Baukiana, Bellona Island, Solomon Islands, late 19th century, hardwood, rattan, and sennit fiber, the strapped head carved into eight blunt points, lg. 15 3/4 in. ...
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Solomon Islands Shell Currency
Lot: 1041Sold for: $188$150Solomon Islands Shell Currency, Malaita, early 20th century, a shell ring carved from the giant clamshell, and a string of shell rings, with old paper label attached, dia. of ring 4 3/8, lg. of ...
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Solomon Islands Carved Wood Dance Paddle
Lot: 1042Sold for: $938$750Solomon Islands Carved Wood Dance Paddle, Buka Island, carved on both sides with highly stylized anthropomorphic and geometric devices, red, black, and white pigments, with metal stand, lg. 72 1/2 ...
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Collection of Solomon Islands Jewelry
Lot: 52Sold for: $308$250Collection of Solomon Islands Jewelry, New Georgia, six clamshell armbands, two nose ornaments, and a woven hair necklace with shell disks, mounted on card, size of mount 11 x 7 1/2 in. ...
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Solomon Islands Bow
Lot: 53UnsoldSolomon Islands Bow, Bougainville, late 19th/early 20th century, fully wrapped in a woven colored orchid fiber sheath, (minor loss), lg. 67 1/2 in. ...
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Santa Cruz Dance Club, Napa
Lot: 54UnsoldSanta Cruz Dance Club, Napa, Solomon Islands, 19th century, canoe-shaped club with black pigment decoration and fiber tassels, (some tassel lugs are missing, chips and age cracks), old Christie's ...
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Three Solomon Island Walking Sticks
Lot: 55UnsoldThree Solomon Island Walking Sticks, early 20th century, decorated with inlaid mother-of-pearl shell, held in place with mastic paste, lg. 40, 38, and 36 1/2 in. ...
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Eastern Solomon Islands Parrying Shield, Qauata
Lot: 56Sold for: $492$400Eastern Solomon Islands Parrying Shield, Qauata, 19th century, with a crescent blade and medial ridge terminating in a "W" symbol, representing frigate birds, with a knopped tapering shaft, lg. 37 ...
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Solomon Islands Hardwood War Club, Alafolo
Lot: 57UnsoldSolomon Islands Hardwood War Club, Alafolo, Malaita, late 19th century, long straight-sided club terminating in an abstract human head, lg. 41 in. ...