Papua New Guinea Stone Carving, Echidna

Small tribal stone carving of an echidna (spiny anteater,) as found; in an old Papua New Guinea bilum bag of woven natural fiber, the bag inside a wooden box. Accompanying handwritten note says: "Echi

**Originally Listed At $200** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Sepik River Basin, Iryan Jaya region, ca. 19th century CE. A wood and reed instrument used for shaping wood such as carvings and dugout canoes

**Originally Listed At $250** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. A fine example of a wood and stone chopping adze, a tool primarily used for shaping and carving wood. The adz

(lot of 2) Sepik River, Papua New Guinea carving, the pigment decorated surface surmounted by a naturalistic mask above stylized zoomorph features; together with Papua New Guinea bullroarer, largest 4

PNG Stone Celt, dating to pre-1950 AD. Smooth polish, no nicks or scratches. Dimensions: 9-3/4" H; Weight: 2 lbs. Provenance: Ex Sotheby's, presently ex. Private collection, New York, NY

Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Middle/East Sepik River Region, Korewori River area, ca. 1920s to 1940s CE. A hand-built red clay stone head representing an abstract ancestral figure. The head is of a mini

**Originally Listed At $500** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. An elegant adze blade of rectangular form, hand-whetted from dark grey basalt. The fascinating implemen

Papua New Guinea carved figure. 30" Ht..

Papua New Guinea Stone Ax. Used for exchange and bride gifting. Late 19th early 20th century. Size: 9.75'' x 3'' x 1.5'' (25 x 8 x 4 cm).

**Originally Listed At $200** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Sepik River Basin, Iryan Jaya region, ca. 19th century CE. An elegant adze featuring a hand-carved wooden handle and flat stone head wrapped ti

**Originally Listed At $150** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, ca. 1940s CE. A handmade cutting tool, known as an adze, featuring a long wooden handle in shades of light brown with a black stone blade prese

Dimensions: H 13" x W 2" x D 1.75" Condition: Split to wood handle. Wear.

Measures approx. 3.75" X 2.5". The instrument was collected and cataloged by an American expat living and working in New Guinea in the mid-1970s. Please review our terms of sale/ shipping information,

Measures approx. 4" X 2.25". The instrument was collected and cataloged by an American expat living and working in New Guinea in the mid-1970s. Please review our terms of sale/ shipping information, a

Measures approx. 4.25" X 3". The instrument was collected and cataloged by an American expat living and working in New Guinea in the mid-1970s. Please review our terms of sale/ shipping information, a

(lot of 3) Sepik River Papua New Guinea carvings, consisting of an ancestor mask having a pigment decorated abstract surface surrounding stylized zoomorph features; together with a cowrie shell encrus

Papua New Guinea Carvings. Oceania. Size: 32" x 10" x 4", 81 x 25 x 10 cm (largest). Provenance: Howard Nowes Gallery, NY.

3 Papua New Guinea Carvings including a 23" Latmul House Post Finial, 20" h A korwar skull bowl ca. 1920, Papuan Gulf Kakame Spirit Figure 28" long.

Lot consists of two Sepik river carved wooden suspension food hooks, an Asmat carved wooden food bowl, and an intricate carved and pigmented white Asmat wall panel. 28", 28", 28.75", 33.5"

Each a polychrome painted mask from the Sepik River region, likely the Iatmul tribe. The largest mask measuring 33" x 17" and the two smaller measuring 26" x 28"

(lot of 3) Stone artifacts from the South Pacific, including a Papua New Guinea stone adze blade, together with an octopus lure made of worked volcanic stone as a weight and lashed with sennit to a se

**Originally Listed At $500** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Middle Sepik River, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden figure of a crocodile's head. The carving is detailed, with raised r

**First Time At Auction** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Sepik River region, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A dramatic, brightly colored wooden decorative carving in the form of a magical anthropomorph

**Originally Listed At $450** Oceania, Eastern Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Angu (sometimes Kukukuku) peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. An intimidating club with a lengthy slender wooden pole.