Duk Duk Dance Wand PNG New Britain

Papua New Guinea Duk-Duk dance wand with raffia fiber beard. The blade double edged and painted to the face with a human like decoration and geometric pattern of hair. The reverse inlaid in shell and

Burning Fire Dance Mask from East New Britain, South Pacific. Red, white and black design on tapa cloth. This style is worn during daytime ceremonies associated with female fertility, mourning and imp

New Britain Shield, Northwest Coast, PNG. Carved wood and pigment, with plant fiber. From the collection of Joseph Salamanca. Size: 75'' x 9.5'' x 3'' (191 x 24 x 8 cm).

New Britain Ilo Shield. Carved wood and pigment, with plant fiber. Comprised of three slender wooden planks bound with several lengths of rattan fibers. The front features an Arawe design from the Kan

New Britain Baining Culture Fire Mask, PNG. Bark cloth, bamboo cane and red and black natural pigments.Size: 49'' x 29'' x 27'' (124 x 74 x 69 cm).

Collector's Lot of Melanesian Artifacts. Including a New Britain Baining Culture Fire Mask, PNG, 3-Prong Canoe Prow, Washkuk figure, Sepik, carved and paint decorated wood canoe prow. Size: Lengths ra

Papua New Guinea, Middle Sepik River, mid-20th century CE. This is an enormous woven dance costume, made of rattan fiber, with two faces, one on the chest, and one on the head; the mask is decorated w

Fine 19th C. African Yoruba Shango Wand, Nigeria. Carved wood. On stand. Among the objects used to honor the Yoruba god of thunder, Shango, is the oshe Shango, or dance wand. It is carried by Shango p

Antique Tolai War Club, East New Britain, Late 19th C. Collected around 1906 by Gottfried Schmidt, a German colonial official. Made of black palm wood with elegant form and fine aged patina. Provenanc

EKET, NIGERIA, AFRICAN WOOD, DANCE WAND H 23", DIA 9" WITH BRASS, KOLA NUTS, FIBER Polychrome carved wood handle with two faces. Wood shaft having metal hardware and coiled metal elements. Bottom elem

wood, thick layer of shiny black patina, glass beads, "Eshu", the Yoruba "trickster god", is a contradictory character, able to be good and bad, trustful and mischievous. He can bestow prosperity but

A tall carved wooden staff " Oshe Shango" featuring the image of a kneeling devotee of Shango, Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, Africa. Shango is the Yoruba god of thunder and lightning and the double-axe mot

$1 National Bank Note. New Britain NB, CT. Ch. 1184. Fr. 380b. PMG Choice Fine 15. The only known Ace recorded out of the dozen currently known on the bank. Some light corner repairs have taken place

Santa Cruz Island Napa Dance Wand, Early-Mid 20th C. Curved form of hard light colored wood with raised stylized faces on top and typical black abstract patterns covering overall surface. Longitudinal

Carved wooden staff with rounded oval top, geometric designs and a fine well handled surface , golden honey colored patina. Zulu peoples, South Africa. The Staff measures 32 x 4 inches. provenance: Ex

Native American, US Southwest, Hopi peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. A wooden dance wand with a painted motif of the germ god Aalosaka painted in bright colors with bold brush strokes on one side.

Industrial Steel Rolling Cart, New Britain Machine Co. This is an industrial style steel rolling cart. It is manufactured by the New Britain Machine Co. out of New Britian, Connecticut. It has three s

The beaded wood handle with horse hair ornament joins a hide covered and beaded ball-shape head connected to the handle by a flat hide strap to create a flop-head club. Measures 43 inches long. Proven

A PLAINS DANCE WAND AND TWO WAR CLUBS, CIRCA 1900-1920. Comprising a traditional horn dance wand, the haft with remnants of decorative hide elements and beading. Together with a catlinite carved figur

Early/Mid 1900s, Traditional sinew sewn rawhide-covered dancers implements with attached carved horn rattlers, plus a colorful quilled tail suspension. In very good condition, with some quill loss. Al

Mechanical Novelty Works New Britain, Connecticut - Circa 1895 Place a coin in the boy's hands. Depress the lever, the goat butts the boy forward and the coin is thrown into the frog. This is one of t

Charles Ethan Porter (1847 - 1923), Rambling Roses, oil on canvas, signed lower right C.E. Porter, New Britain Museum of American Art label on back, Connecticut Gallery label on back, exhibited Octobe

Oil on canvas. Still Life with Roses. Signed and dated lower right. New Britain Museum of American Art exhibition label verso. Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers lot sticker affixed verso. From a Wanague,

This original period document is a World War II Instrument of Surrender by Japanese Forces in New Guinea, New Britain, New Ireland, Bougainville and adjacent islands. It is signed by Lieutenant Genera