PAPA NEW GUINEA KARARAU WOODEN STATUE, Mid 20th century.

PAPA NEW GUINEA KARARAU WOODEN STATUE, Mid 20th century. Hand carved and decorated statue in the Kararau Village in Papa New Guinea.

NEW GUINEA CARVED ANCESTRAL FIGURE WAMBANGI SEPIK RIVER, Mid-to-early 20th Century. large wooden carved statue with carvings on both sides. - Length: 105 inches.

PAIR NEW GUINEA SEPTIK RIVER ITEMS, Mid 20th Century. Hand carved wooden decorated masks and statue from Papua New Guinea. - Height: 30 inches.

Mid-20th C. Papua New Guinea Wooden Dance Mask. Polychrome decorated dance mask from Angoram in the lower Sepik. Originally purchased from Ulrich Kortmann. 18" long. Hewn interior, overall good condit

**Originally Listed At $300** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, lower Ramu River region, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. An interesting spoon, hand-carved from wood, with a small scoop and an abstract anth

Papua New Guinea, Middle Sepik River region, mid-20th century CE. A delightful and totemic carving of a large-beaked bird - probably a hornbill - standing on a mask-like human face atop a rounded pede

**First Time At Auction** Papua New Guinea, Middle Sepik River region, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A lovely carved wooden figural "food hook," possibly a female, with red, yellow, cream, and whi

**Originally Listed At $150** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, ca. mid 20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden ancestor figure with very thin shell inlays for eyes that give them a startling, glowing appearan

Oceania, Papua New Guinea, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A beautiful hand-carved mortar with a shallow, flat bowl at the top and a flat base, its sides decorated with high relief birds and fins, t

**First Time At Auction** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, ca. mid-20th century CE. A fine set of two hand-carved wooden spear tips with lengthy bodies, slender midsections, and abstract curvilinear motifs

**Originally Listed At $100** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, early to mid 20th century CE. A sizable wooden bow, likely made for hunting or warfare. The bow is constructed from a long palm tree shaft with

Papua New Guinea, Middle Sepik River, early-mid 20th century CE. A hand-carved wood figure, kneeling, with a long, beak-like nose and deep set eyes. Carved as part of his head is another head with wid

**Originally Listed At $100** Southeast Asia/Oceania, New Guinea, Asmat peoples, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden head of an ancestor, with exaggerated features such as a long an

**Originally Listed At $75** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Sepik River region, ca. mid 20th century CE. A relief-carved, teardrop-shaped wooden "paddle" form with an abstract, vine-like motif on both sid

Papua New Guinea, Sepik River, perhaps from Iwam along the May River (East Sepik), mid-20th century CE. A long-faced, hand-carved wooden mask, made not to be worn but to be placed protectively over a

**Originally Listed At $600** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, ca. mid 20th century CE. A large wooden shield with an overall rectangular composition and finely-carved details that form a symmetrical design

Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Sepik River region, ca. mid 20th century CE. A sleek wooden drum carved from a single piece of hardwood, with repeating zoomorphic figures and geometric motifs down the side

**Originally Listed At $300** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Sepik River region, ca. mid 20th century CE. A sleek wooden drum carved from a single piece of hardwood, with repeating zoomorphic figures and

**Originally Listed At $250** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, North Maprik District, Abelam people, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. An intriguing wooden zoomorphic effigy, hand-carved from lightweight wo

**Originally Listed At $300** Papua New Guinea, Middle Sepik River, early-mid 20th century CE. A heavy wooden figure of a crouching woman with long arms that she is using to leverage herself from the

Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Sepik River region, ca. mid-20th century CE. A beautiful, hand-carved wooden spear portion with a slender shaft, a grip bound with tightly-wrapped and knotted cord, and a th

**First Time At Auction** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, ca. mid-20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden shield of a narrow, ovoid form with a convex face adorned with an abstract illustration. The obverse

Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Sepik River region, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A fabulous hand-carved wooden head of an ancestral figure. The elongated visage features inlaid white shell eyes, one w

**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