Antique New Guinea Tribal Currency - "Talipun".

Three woven Highlands currency and body decorations. Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea.Acquired by Marc Seidler in the Highlands c. 1981

A woven Highlands snake vertebrate currency or body decoration. Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea. Acquired by Marc Seidler in the Highlands c. 1981

Height: 11 in.

A very unique New Guinea tribal mask that has real hair, probably horse or donkey hair. Appears to be hand carved out of 1 piece of blond wood. Mask is able to stand up on it's own. Mask has a nic

A charming antique woven grass medicine bag adorned with beads, shells and feathers and showing handling and apparent traditional field use. The Bag measures 9 x 18 inches, not counting the strap. Pro

Hand carved tribal wooden ritual mask, carved in a Mwai (Mwei, Mvai) style, portraying a clan ancestor. Cowrie shell eyes, other natural materials. Original pigment, fine old vintage to antique patina

Antique oar or spear handle. Naturalistic colors, cowrie shell eyes. A hand made and decorated Sepik River carved wooden tribal crocodile head, which once formed the handle portion of a native tribal

Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Boiken area, ca. mid 20th century CE. A woven mask-like item called a talipun, unique to the coastal Boiken region of northern Papua New Guinea. This item was made to be use

Two shell necklaces, Possibly Papuan Gulf; Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea. One of cowrie shells sewn to fiber necklace. The other with conus and bailer shells on natural fiber. Both with fine patinat

Tall 5'7" Painted wood tribal shield -- Tribal shield, attributed to Papua New Guinea. Some mildew shown, and some base water damage. Measures approx. 5"7" tall x 19" wide x 5" deep. (Book not include

19c New Guinea Wood-Carved Tribal Spear. Measures 58 x 6 inches.

Papua New Guinea Wood Carved Traditional Figures including Kore Spirit Figures and Ceremonial pieces. Tallest is 26". Antique, some are in as found condition.

A Fine Old Kina Shell necklace , a crescent-shaped cut and polished clam shells of the yellow-lipped clam. They are worn by the men in the highlands of New Guinea as ornaments for the neck or chest an

Antique African Tribal Drum Probably Papua New Guinea 19th C (SHOWS WEAR ON THE HANDLE AND OPPOSITE SIDE). Measure 25 1/4" Tall. This, and many lots forthcoming were found at the massive central Flori

Old Shell Tribal Papua NEW GUINEA ceremonial necklace on a stand. An Overlapping Band Tribal Currency Shell Ceremonial Neck Ornament Brown Fiber Collar from .

Antique African Tribal Drum Probably Papua New Guinea 19th C (SHOWS WEAR ON THE HANDLE AND OPPOSITE SIDE). Measure 25 1/4" Tall. This lot was found at the massive central Florida estate of a true anti

2 antique ethnographic Melanesian spears from Papua New Guinea. Bamboo, carved hardwood, woven plant and cloth fiber wrapped hilts, with decorative tribal pyography elements. Hollow cane point spear a

DESCRIPTION: A Oceania Papua New Guinea decorative mask. Features an oblong tribal mask with cowrie shell eyes, shell tusks and intricately carved features. CIRCA: Early - Mid 20th Century ORIGIN: Oce

Three Oceania African Tribal Dance Masks - Woven Fiber Tribal Dance masks with pigment, cowrie shell, and hair detailing. Possible Papua New Guinea/Oceania origin. Provenance: from a private collectio

Antique woven grass basketry type bag adorned with various seeds and feathers and painted with organic pigments. Likely from the Papuan highlands region, Papua New Guinea. The bag Measures 12 x 15 inc

A Carved wooden panel accented with red and white mineral pigments and a highly stylized image of the spirit Imunu. Kerewa or related ethnic group, Gulf province Papua New Guinea. The Board measures 2

A Vintage to antique carved wooden drum with elaborate incised designs and a monitor lizard skin as the drum head membrane. The Drum was carved in traditional hourglass form and has a carved wooden ha

A Middle Sepik Stool, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Of typical form, the stool of hour-glass shape with four arching struts connecting the upper and lower sections, imitating the shape of a r

A shell and bead necklace. Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea. Acquired by Marc Seidler in the Highlands c. 1981