A dance at Ulietea one of the Society Islands. Raiatea, Polynesia. BANKES 1789

CAPTION PRINTED BELOW PICTURE: 'A view of the new discover'd island of Ulietea, with some of its inhabitants, a double canoe, and other small craft, a boat house with the model of a double canoe, & c'

CAPTION PRINTED BELOW PICTURE: 'View of the island of Otaheite' DATE PRINTED: 1789 IMAGE SIZE: Approx 14.0 x 19.0cm, 5.5 x 7.5 inches (Medium) TYPE: Antique copperplate print CONDITION: Good; suitable

Oceania / Polynesia, Tahiti, Society Islands, ca. 19th century CE. Rare crown, consisting of hundreds of carefully stitched white and pale orange-tipped white tulip-shaped seashells placed to create a

Oceania, Polynesia, Tahiti, Society Islands, ca. 19th century CE. A hand-built hei formed by stringing hundreds of petite momi (Euplica varians) shells in a variety of colors on a modern strand. Prese

French Polynesia, Tahiti, Society Islands, ca. 17th to 19th century CE. A fabulous and hefty pounder, hand-carved from pale-gray basalt, meant to pulverize the roots of the taro plant into poi. The to

**Originally Listed At $800** Oceania, French Polynesia, Tahiti, Society Islands, ca. mid to late 19th century CE. A lovely cylindrical drum, hand-carved from a single piece of caramel-hued hard wood,

Oceania, Polynesia, Fiji Islands, ca. 19th century CE. A gorgeous dance club known as a kiakavo with a distinctive curving form with a protruding secondary head spur on top. The lengthy hilt and shaft

**Originally Listed At $300** Oceania, Polynesia, Fiji Islands, ca. second half of the 19th century CE. A fine cup of a hemispherical form carved from one half of a shaved coconut shell. The vessel ha

Polynesia, Tonga Island , ca. 19th century CE. This beater is composed of a single piece of heavy hard wood, with a handle at one end and a large rectangular head at the other. It was used to beat bar

Tonga/Fiji Island shield/club, Polynesia, Hardwood with deep, medium brown, aged patina. late 19th Century 44.5"L, In very good condition, but one flange has been broken and glued back into place. Pro

This material all came from a Newport, Rhode Island mansion estate. The lot contains:Sixth plate daguerreotype.2 sixth plate ambrotypes.4 ninth plate daguerreotypes (2 of them came in one case).1 nint

Exceedingly rare Carved wooden Dance mask featuring a Royal personage for dance dramas and theater. Such masks from Madura island are very scare on the market , this being the only one we have ever of

A Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) dance society drum and supports Designed with a painted face and wrapped in blue and red trade cloth further adorned with beadwork strips, dewclaws and German silver buttons, fl

"One Island and Five Clouds", oil on wooden applique bas relief, depicting the Maine coast, pencil signed, titled and dated 7-13-12 on the lower edge and verso, unframed inset box edge, painted black,

Thomas Red Owl Haukaas, M.D. Sicangu Lakota (Rosebud Sioux)/Puerto Rican, (b. 1950), 'Omaha Society Dance,' 1997, pigments on muslin framed under glass, signed and dated lower right, titled lower left

Drypoint/Monotype of One Dalton by Sean Flood

Polynesian Austral Island Dance Paddle, Mid-19th Century. Finely carved shaft and blade, with carved masks around the knobbed end. From old UK estate with Harrods Storage Label from early 20th. Shows

Bamana, Mali, Antelope dance mask, Tjiwara Society dance mask carved in two parts. Wood with the finest relief carving on the head and body of the antelope, the horns in extremely fine relief. The hor

Qigong B.1912 was a renowned Chinese calligrapher, artist, painter, connoisseur and sinologist. He was an advisor for the September 3 Society, one of China's recognized political parties.Qigong was bo

Property of Lynn University to benefit the Library Renovation Fund To be sold subject to no reserve STYLE OF BOBO ULE PEOPLE REPUBLIC OF THE MALI"Do" Society Dance Totem Figure Carved wood, figure in

Tribal art (Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, 20th c.) Beautiful and well used carved wood bowl from the Marquesas Islands decorated with stylized tiki figures. Exotic hardwood, possible ironwood o

NO RESERVE World.- Ellis (William) Polynesian Researches ... in the Society and Sandwich Islands, 4 vol., additional engraved titles, 7 plates, 3 folding maps, scattered spotting, cracked hinges, orig

Oceania, Solomon Islands, Santa Cruz Islands, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A stunning hand-carved wooden dance club, known as a napa, presenting a lengthy form with a conical handle and a c

A Fine Tongan Island Club, French Polynesia, 18th/19th century. The cylindrical shaft and ovate blade with overall intricate geometric chip carving. Sometimes called "hoe" after the Tahitian word for