Tribal Art and Ethnographica Catalogue


Melanesia: New Guinea (61 Items)

Superb old Eastern Highlands war shield, PNG
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Title: Superb old Eastern Highlands war shield, PNG
Item Code: t3241
Description: Superb old Eastern Highlands war shield with white ochre decoration, cane binding, cassowary feathers and incised lines. Name of shield: Ufoze Hanko.
Name of owner: Sao Avanio.
Used in last tribal fight between the two clans of Fagame and Finintegu.
Origin: Ikanofi village, Henganofi, Eastern Highlands, New Guinea
Dimensions: Height: 150.0 cm / width: 51.0 cm
Condition: Good condition
Price: AUD $4,000.00 USD $2,800.00 EUR €2,120.00
References: Sotheby's Nov 16 2001, lot 233
Status: Available
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An old Highlands war shield
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Title: An old Highlands war shield
Item Code: t3240
Description: An old Highlands war shield, the anterior surface decorated with pecked designs.
Old vertical split with original native repair.
Striking and rare.
Origin: Minj, Western Highlands region, New Guinea.
Dimensions: Height: 144 cm / Width: 54 cm
Price: AUD $4,000.00 USD $2,800.00 EUR €2,120.00
Status: Available
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A traditional Highlands war shield
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Title: A traditional Highlands war shield
Item Code: bb44
Description: A traditional Highlands war shield of beaten sheet metal, the convex interior with pierced apex; decorated with polychrome trade paint, pierced fro grip attachment at rear.
Origin: Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Dimensions: Height: 160.0 cm / width: 82.0 cm
Condition: Good condition
Price: AUD $4,500.00 USD $3,150.00 EUR €2,385.00
Status: Available
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A Southern Highlands shield.
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Title: A Southern Highlands shield.
Item Code: t6098
Description: A Southern Highlands shield. Decorated in red, white and black trade paint with diamond design. Rope handle on reverse
Origin: Southern Highlands, New Guinea
Dimensions: Height: 132.5 cm / width: 37.0 cm
Condition: Weathered patina with some old loss and spear punctures, and old repair.
Price: AUD $1,500.00 USD $1,050.00 EUR €795.00
Status: Available
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Item Code: t6144
Description: Nicely carved old Massim splashboard; lovely brownish patina.
Origin: Fergusson Island, D'entrescasteaux Island group, Milne Bay province, New Guinea
Dimensions: Height: 63.0 cm / width: 59.0 cm
Price: AUD $850.00 USD $595.00 EUR €450.50
Status: Available
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Item Code: t2370
Description: A fantastic Old Coastal Sepik dance mask. Remnant pigments.
Very good condition, very minor surface loss on decorative ridge on head.
Origin: Coastal Sepik, New Guinea
Dimensions: Length: 40.0 cm
Price: AUD $1,250.00 USD $875.00 EUR €662.50
Status: Available
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Item Code: t6108
Description: Phantom comic painted war shield with license plate and cassowary feathers.
Cane and textile handle.
Weathered patina with old repair.
The Phantom was a 1960's comic book figure and cult hero to tribal highland warriors.
Origin: Western Highlands, New Guinea
Dimensions: Height: 147 cm / Width: 50 cm
Price: AUD $3,200.00 USD $2,240.00 EUR €1,696.00
Status: Available
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Item Code: t6101
Description: A Southern Highlands shield.
Decorated in trade paint with face in red black and yellow.
Rope handle on reverse
Weathered patina.
Origin: Southern Highlands, New Guinea
Dimensions: Height: 139 cm / Width: 37 cm
Price: AUD $1,750.00 USD $1,225.00 EUR €927.50
Status: Available
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Item Code: ps082
Description: An old Massim bowl with abstract carving around rim and twu curvilinear designs around the underside and some native repair
Origin: Massim people, Trobriand Islands
Dimensions: diameter 47 cm / height 15 cm
Price: AUD $240.00 USD $168.00 EUR €127.20
Status: Available
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Item Code: t6062
Description: An Abelam polychrome wooden yam-board.
Rejoined, otherwise intact. Presented on custom steel display stand.
Origin: Abelam people, Sepik river, New Guinea
Dimensions: Height: 72 cm / width: 41 cm
Price: AUD $1,450.00 USD $1,015.00 EUR €768.50
Status: Available

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