A Very Old Field Collected New Guinea Carvers Tool

A very rare carved wooden New Guinea Highlands Axe or carvers tool with original rattan wrapping and classic form. The Axe measures 19.5 inches tall x 12.5 inches front to back. The Axe can also inclu

A Carved wooden Yena Figure with mineral pigment painted face and overall stylized form. Washkuk people, Amaki Village, Papua New Guinea - Field collected by John C. Edler, C 1986. The Yena sculpture

A Carved wooden Yena Figure with mineral pigment painted face and overall stylized form. Washkuk people, Amaki Village, Papua New Guinea - Field collected by John C. Edler, C 1986. The Yena sculpture

A Rare Old Double Hunstien Garra figure - Field collected by John C. Edler, C. 1988 in Papua New Guinea. This carved wooden mask like sculpture was kept within ceremonial houses among the Bahinemo peo

A rare and very old carved wooden Humboldt Bay hand drum with painted designs and animal skin membrane over the drum frame. Humboldt Bay, West New Guinea/Irian Jaya - Field collected by Todd Barlin, e

This is a very rare old field used Nkuma Washkuk Mindja board. The carving measures 37.5 inches tall and has been mounted to a metal display stand. Nkuma Washkuk, Amaki Village, Papua New Guinea. *Pro

This is a very rare old Washkuk Minja board; Nkuma peoples, Amaki village, Papua New Guinea. The board measures 45 inches tall x 9 inches wide. Field collected C. 1979 by John C. Edler, former curator

An ancestral mask, Murik Lakes, Papua New Guinea, field collected by Bruce D. Lawes, who thought it was created for indigenous use in the 1940s-1950s, having very faint traces of red and yellow pigmen

This is a very large Kwoma Washkuk Ceremonial house carving of a female ancestor, Bangwis village, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Field collected in 1978 by John C. Edler in Bangwis from the B

Oceanic Flute Stopper, Papua New Guinea, Field Collected in 1940 Sepik River Location. Hand Painted Wood Instrument Used To Plug A Bamboo Flute. Provenance: Ethnographic Tribal Museum Collection (See

This is a rare and genuine tribal made Bark Painting from the Middle Sepik river region, Iatmul people, Papua New Guinea. Field collected C. 1972, by Lynda Cunningham, NY. The fragile panel was create

Objects of this type are very rare. They seem to have been used in shrines to venerate ancestors or cultural heroes. The use of Fern Tree figures in west New Guinea is not well documented and only a f

A Suki carrying bag, Suki people, Middle Fly River, Western Province, Papua New Guinea.Of classical form the bags with geometric designs woven into the basic shape in raised fiber and carefully pigmen

Abelam, Papua New Guinea nicely worked yam mask (baba) of woven fibers and polychrome pigments, used in yam ceremonies, 14"h Provenance: field collected by Michael Hamson in the late 1990s, American P

A Fine and Rare Washkuk - Yena figure, Northern Washkuk, Yessan village; Papua New Guinea. The rare figure with elongated face and and rounded chin, finely pigmented and with a stylized body and arms

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

A carved wooden panel with incised linear designs accented with white and orange mineral pigments. This is an extremely rare Dani or Lani peoples Spirit Board from West New Guinea/ Irian Jaya, somewhe

This is a very rare old field used Nkuma Washkuk Mindja board. The carving measures 37.5 inches tall and has been mounted to a metal display stand. Nkuma Washkuk, Amaki Village, Papua New Guinea. Prov

A Hunstein Garra Initiation hook, Hunstein Mountains, Papua New Guina. Field Collected by John C. Edler C. 1980. The panel measures 59 inches tall x 13.5 inches wide.

28 ½” Spear Tip 2 Crocodile Boat Prows, Scalping Tool, all from Irina Java and Papua, New Guinea

A fine and old Era River Drum. Era River area, Papuan Gulf; Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea.Of typical form, the drum of conical form tapering to a stylized crocodile’s mouth, the terminus inci

Old Yam Mask - Abelam - Maprik Area - Eastern Sepik Papua New Guinea 1950 Wood 37 cm Embossed wooden mask with black, red and yellow pigment. It was collected around 1960. The cheeks and forehead are

Papua New Guinea Hooked Spirit Figure. Probably carved by people living in the Ramu Valley, this fine, old carving measures approximately 21.25" X 2.5". It was collected in the mid-70s by an American

See New Guinea Art from Astrolabe Bay to Morobe, p.227 #104. About 120 years old, made from a coconut with carved hand grips and fashioned entirely with stone and shell tools. From one of the most int