Papua New Guinea? Wood Doorboard or Pane

**First Time At Auction** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Marind / Marind-Anim people, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. A rare example of a wood and seed covered bird headdress costume used during dema ri

Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Marind / Marind-Anim people, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. A fascinating pair of wooden hands covered with red abrus seeds and white job's tears. The seeds are affixed t

Papua New Guinea, Sepic Region, ca. 19th to 20th century CE. A mesmerizing wooden flute stopper with a janiform face at the bottom featuring 4 cowrie shell eyes (2 on each face) and a lizard-like crea

Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Sepik River region, ca. early 20th century CE. A fascinating, hand-carved, transformative wooden totemic figure, depicting a pregnant woman in sexual congress with a crocodi

**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. 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

Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Sepik River region, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A dramatic, brightly painted wooden decorative carving of a seated figure. Presenting as a panel and painted on one sid

Oceania, Papua New Guinea, ca. early 20th century CE. A large, hand-carved wooden skull - replete with large eye orbitals, a deep nasal cavity, and a gaping toothy grin. In the past, headhunting was a

Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Sepik River region, ca. early 20th century CE. A huge, hand-carved wooden stirrer with a delightful relief anthropomorphic face at the base of the paddle. A long, slightly c

Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Middle Sepik River, ca. mid 20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden canoe prow in the form of a mystical fish with a long snout, a large eye, and a bird perched atop the tip o

**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

Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Lower Ramu River region, ca. mid 20th century CE. A tall standing zoomorphic figure, hand-carved from hardwood, with a characteristically abstract presentation. This anthrop

Sepik River, Papua, New Guinea wood carved Sculpture , 54 inches tall

Papua New Guinea, Lower Sepik River, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A fabulous stylized ancestor figure that fits snugly into a fiber and shell bilum bag. The guardian has an anthropomorphic

Papua New Guinea, Middle Sepik River region, Iatmul people, ca. 20th century CE. A highly-detailed set of two carved wooden trophy heads, each with fine facial details and painted mask-like face in hu

**Originally Listed At $600** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, ca. mid 20th century CE. A handsome wood figural carving featuring many of the classic forms of Papuan carving - a woman at the center, with cr

**Originally Listed At $500** Oceania, central Papua New Guinea, Wahgi Valley, Mount Hagen, ca. first half of the 20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden bowl of a massive size with a rounded but stable

**Originally Listed At $200** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Ramu River region, ca. mid-20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden mortar for grinding betel nuts. The bowl of the mortar is supported by two abs

**Originally Listed At $350** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, ca. 20th century CE. A pair of carved, matching wooden figures. First, an anthropomorphic standing figure with white, red, and ocher yellow det

Oceania, Papua New Guinea, ca. 20th century CE. A hand-carved, oval wooden panel called a gope board; this smaller example was probably made for an uninitiated boy. The surface has a low relief motif

Possibly Sepik River Region. Large (approximately 100") steering paddle with the image of a crocodile carved into the handle. From the carefully curated collection of a Pan Am flight attendant, in ser

Oceania, Papua New Guinea, East Sepik, Abelam, ca. mid 20th century CE. A fascinating woven mask with an avian, owl-like oval face, split in half by a thin projection that resembles a narrow beak, wit

Carved wood mask from Papua New Guinea, possibly from the Ramu River region, and dating to the first half of the 20th century. Of elongated oval form with pointed ends, protruding nose with a hole car