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
Sold2023A Iatmul Drum with Crocodile MotifA middle Sepik River crocodile drum. East Sepik province, Iatmul people, Papua New Guinea.Of typical hourglass shape the handle in the form of a crocodile with scaly back and elongated face with reddeSee Sold Price
Sold2020Early 20th C. Papua New Guinea Wooden Food Hook**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 whiSee Sold Price
Sold2022Kandangai PNG Food HookA large Papua New Guinea food hook from Kandangai Village, Sepik River, East Sepik Province. Carved wooden figure with dark painted finish, featuring a standing male with inset spiral carved shell eyeSee Sold Price
Sold2022Amboin PNG Cult HookA Papua New Guinea Yipwon cult hook from Amboin Village, Karawari River, East Sepik Province. Carved wooden figure standing in profile with dark painted finish, featuring a face above carved concentriSee Sold Price
Sold2018Papua New Guinea carved figural suspension hookStylized figural suspension hook (Iatmul), depicting a masked figure with inset shell eyes, decorated with red, black, grey, and white pigments, and vestiges of feathers and rafia, Sepik River, New GuSee Sold Price
Sold2018Papua New Guinea carved figural suspension hookCarved wood figural suspension hook (Iatmul), depicitng a masked figure with inset shell eyes, decorated with red, black and white pigments, resting on a crcodile head, Sepik River, New Guinea, 26.5"hSee Sold Price
Sold2023IATMUL (MWAI) MASKIATMUL (MWAI) MASKPapua New Guinea, Middle Sepik River Region, Iatmul People, first half 20th century. Polychrome decorated carved wood mask having oblong face with elongated zoomorphic nose below a fSee Sold Price
Sold202119th C. PNG Sepik River Carved Wood Shield**Originally Listed At $500** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, East Sepik Province, Ramu River region, ca. 19th to 20th century CE. A hefty shield hand-carved from a large wood plank with rounded corners anSee Sold Price
Sold202120th C. Papua New Guinea Polychrome Wood & Fiber MaskOceania, Papua New Guinea, East Sepik River province, North Coast, Boiken peoples, ca. mid 20th century CE. A wonderful and vibrant wooden ceremonial mask featuring fiber cords and cowrie shells. TheSee Sold Price
Sold2018Pair of 20th C. Papua New Guinea Wood Trophy HeadsPapua 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 huSee Sold Price
Sold2024Papua New Guinea Sepik River Wood Mask**Originally Listed At $300** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Middle Sepik River region, Iatmul people, ca. 20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden face mask, perhaps intended for the dead given the lack ofSee Sold Price
Sold2021Early 20th C. Papua New Guinea Stone Ancestor HeadOceania, 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 miniSee Sold Price
Sold2020Papua New Guinea Iatmul Sepik River Orator's StoolA Southeast Asian Papua New Guinea Iatmul Middle Sepik River Valley Orator's Stool constructed of carved wood with applied natural pigments including ochre, ash, kaolin, depicting an Iatmul tribal ancSee Sold Price
Sold2015PNG Sepik River Yena Yam Mask, Ex-HistoriaPapua New Guinea, East Sepik Province, maker unknown, ca. 1940s. A large yena yam mask made from woven plant fibers, probably the roots of a mangrove tree, adorned with earth pigments of red and whiteSee Sold Price
Sold2021Middle Sepik River Iatmul Canoe Decoration, PNG.A Middle Sepik River Iatmul Canoe Decoration. Papua New Guinea. 43 3/4" x 66 1/2".See Sold Price
Sold2023Papua New Guinea Iatmul Woven Cane Gable MaskOceania, Papua New Guinea, East Sepik River region, Iatmul peoples, ca. mid-20th century CE. A large gable mask composed of tightly woven cane fibers wrapped around a wooden frame. The face has a concSee Sold Price
Sold2016Late 19th C. PNG Wood Food Hook, ex-KennedyPapua New Guinea, Middle Sepik River, late 19th to early 20th century CE. This is a carved wood "food hook", that is guaranteed not a tourist piece! A (female?) figure, painted red with cream and blacSee Sold Price
Sold2018Early 20th C. PNG Sepik River Wood Trophy Hook**Originally Listed At $300** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Middle Sepik River, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A nice example of a hand-carved wooden trophy hook, also known as a suspension hook. TheSee Sold Price
Sold2016PNG Sepik River Basket HookPapua New Guinea, Middle Sepik River, early-mid 20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden hook, carved to show a human face at the top with small creamy white cowry shell inset eyes, a large, pointed noseSee Sold Price
Sold2020Papua New Guinea Sepik Figural Suspension HookPapua New Guinea Sepik Province figural suspension hook worked in wood, featuring a face surmounting a shield-shaped body and double hook of crescent form along bottom, with carved handle to reverse.See Sold Price
Sold2020Papua New Guinea Sepik Figural Suspension HookPapua New Guinea Sepik Province figural suspension hook worked in polychrome wood, featuring a face surmounting a diamond-shaped body and double hook along bottom, with cowrie shell inlay to one eye.See Sold Price
Sold2019Rare Iatmul Sepik River Bark Painting Collected in 1972This 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 createSee Sold Price
Sold2023A Bahinemo Cult HookA Bahinemo Cult hook, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Of typical form, the hook made of characteristically very heavy wood (as authentic examples are supposed to be) of deeply concave form withSee Sold Price