Sold202020th C. Papua New Guinea Carved Wooden Ancestral Figure**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);See Sold Price
Sold202120th C. Papua New Guinea Wood Ancestor w/ Shell EyesOceania, 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 wSee Sold Price
Sold2018Huge / Early 20th C. PNG Maprik Wood Ancestral FigureOceania, 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 genitaliaSee Sold Price
Sold2018Mid 20th C. Papua New Guinea Wood Figure**Originally Listed At $200** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, ca. mid 20th century CE. A fascinating hand-carved wooden figure depicting a bearded ancestral human wearing a large bird-headed headdress. TheSee Sold Price
Sold2018Early 20th C. Papua New Guinea Wood Carving - Crocodile**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 rSee Sold Price
Sold2018Early 20th C. Papua New Guinea Carved Wooden Mask**Originally Listed At $200** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, ca. early 20th century CE. An ornate, abstract, beautiful mask depicting a vaguely anthropomorphic figure with avian figures perched on top ofSee Sold Price
Sold2020Lot of Three 20th C. Papua New Guinea Madang Wood Masks**First Time At Auction** Papua New Guinea, Madang Province, Ramu / Upper Keram River, ca. mid 20th century CE. A trio of hand-carved wooden ancestral masks with elongated ovoid forms, minimalist anthSee Sold Price
Sold202020th C. Papua New Guinea Carved Wooden Lime Stick**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 whiSee Sold Price
Sold2020Two 20th C. Papua New Guinea Wood Carvings**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 detSee Sold Price
Sold201820th C. Papua New Guinea Wooden Ancestor Figure**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 appearanSee Sold Price
Sold2018Pair of 20th C. Papua New Guinea Carved Wood CrocodilesOceania, Papua New Guinea, Middle Sepik River, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A pair of hand-carved wooden crocodile figures, each with a horned nose and deeply inlaid cowrie shell eyes. The bodiesSee Sold Price
Sold2018Early 20th C Papua New Guinea Wood Transformation TotemOceania, 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 crocodiSee Sold Price
Sold2018Early 20th C. Papua New Guinea Decorated Food HookPapua New Guinea, Middle Sepik River, early 20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden "food hook" in the form of an abstract mask-like visage with bold features, with a petite stylized figure, who intriguSee Sold Price
Sold2018Early 20th C. PNG Wooden Ancestral Figure**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 theSee Sold Price
Sold201819th C. Papua New Guinea Wooden Ancestor Figure**Originally Listed At $500** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, ca. early 20th century CE. A tall, hand-carved wooden ancestor figure. The figure has a simple body, with joined legs, no feet, a narrow torso,See Sold Price
Sold2020Mid-20th C. Papua New Guinea Abelam Wood Male Figure**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 delineaSee Sold Price
Sold201619th C. PNG Iatmul Wood Basket Hook - FiguralOceania, 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 bSee Sold Price
Sold202120th C. Papua New Guinea Sepik River Wood & Skin DrumOceania, 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 sideSee Sold Price
Sold202120th C. Papua New Guinea Sepik River Wood & Skin Drum**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 andSee Sold Price
Sold2018Tall / Early 20th C. PNG Carved Wood Ancestor FigurePapua 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.See Sold Price
Sold2022Oceania, Papua New Guinea, early 20th century.Oceania, Papua New Guinea, early 20th century.A massive, hand-carved wooden slit drum with a long body. Polychrome decorated with a full figure to one end.75 inchesSee Sold Price
Sold2018Early 20th C. PNG Sepik River Wood Drum - Avian**Originally Listed At $400** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Sepik River region, ca. early 20th century CE. A tall, hand-carved wooden drum in the form of a standing anthropomorphic figure with a crestedSee Sold Price
Sold201819th C. PNG Wood Elongated Ancestor Figure MaskPapua New Guinea, late 19th to early 20th century CE. This is a carved wooden face, elongated, with a curved hole instead of a mouth/chin, and a long nose and deepset eyes below a large forehead. TherSee Sold Price
Sold2021Early 20th C. PNG Massim Wooden Lime Spatula w/ Figure**Originally Listed At $175** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Goodenough Island, Diodio village, Massim peoples, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden spatula used to obtain powdered limeSee Sold Price
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