Sepik Papua New Guinea Wooden Ancestral Figure

Vintage carved wood ancestral figure from the Sepik region in New Guinea. Features a stylized figural form with inlaid cowrie shell eyes and bird form at the top. These would have been placed in speci

Vintage carved wood ancestral figure from the Sepik region in New Guinea. Features a stylized figural form with inlaid cowrie shell eyes and bird form at the top. Measures 45" x 6" x 6". These would h

**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. 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

**First Time At Auction** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, ca. 20th century CE. A highly abstract, hand-carved wooden ancestor figure. Colored dark brown with a mineral-based pigment. Size: 18.5" H (47 cm);

Vintage carved wood tribal ancestral figure from the Sepik region in New Guinea. Features a stylized figural form with inlaid cowrie shell eyes and cassowary bird features at the top. Further embellis

A Papua New Guinea Middle Sepik River Mindimbit ancestral male figure sculpture carved wood, natural fiber, red ochres pigment, and cowrie shells depicting a male ancestral figure on a small round pli

Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Maprik region, Abelam peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. An enormous hand-carved wooden ancestral figure standing upon a pair of lengthy legs with delineated male genitalia

Carved wood ancestor figure, possibly Sepik River, Papua New Guinea, standing figure wearing a mask, decorated with red and black pigments, natural fiber fringe, approx 45.5"h Start Price: $100.00

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

An Oceanic Wood Ancestral Figure Middle Sepik River Region, Papua New Guinea, Circa 20th Century A.D. Height 28 inches (71 cm). Property of the Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa Provenance: Doro

Early -Mid 20th Century Sepik River Totem Papua New Guinea - Possibly Yatmul People with Eagle and Crocodile and Ancestral Figures wood, polychrome, cowrie shells, with fibre and feather decoration. 4

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

**Originally Listed At $150** Papua New Guinea, Sepik River region, ca. 20th century CE. A finely-detailed wooden ancestral face connected to a lengthy spike. The face has a chalky white ground on whi

A Papua New Guinea Sepik River Pukpuk crocodile boat prow carved wood depicting a stylized crocodile head on the front and a carved ancestral figure on the inside that was once part of the front of a

Papua New Guinea, Sepik River region, ca. early 20th century CE. A tall wooden figure, hand-carved, in the form of a long-limbed male with his arms held at his sides and a prominent, flaccid phallus.

A carved wooden Nkuma Nogwei figure. Nkuma people, Washkuk Hills, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.Finely carved with the female figure standing with typically carved Nkuma face and depicting the

Carved ancestral figure or "kumbianmu", Tigowi tribe, Sepik River, Papua New Guinea, regarded as a dwelling place for ancestral spirits, rendering aid and good fortune to living family members, compri

Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Middle Sepik River, Iatmul people, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A hand carved female ancestral figure basket hook with an anchor form at the base for suspending b

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 $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

A rare carved wooden Karawari River Ancestor figure, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea -This sculpture is unusual for a Men's house figure as it was carved in full form as opposed to profile kaman

Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Middle/East Sepik River Region, Korewori River area, ca. 1920s to 1940s CE. A hand-built red clay stone head representing an abstract ancestral figure. The head is of a mini

**Originally Listed At $200** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Middle Sepik River region, Abelam peoples, ca. mid-20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden male figure standing with wide-spread legs and delinea