Late 19th C. Solomon Islands Wood Dance Club

Oceania, Solomon Islands, Santa Cruz Islands, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A stunning hand-carved wooden dance club, known as a napa, presenting a lengthy form with a conical handle and a c

wood, reddish brown patina, traces of black paint, shaft with oval cross section, flat club head with raised middle ridge, bent in the upper third, slightly dam., minor missing parts H: 92 cm, H: 36,2

**Originally Listed At $650** Oceania, Solomon Islands, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A wooden paddle club of a simple yet elegant form, with a wide paddle end that is bisected by a raised r

Oceania, Solomon Islands, ca. late early 20th century CE. A wooden paddle club of a simple yet elegant form, with a wide paddle end that is bisected by a raised rib and resolves in a pointed terminal.

Massim Island Arrow Tip Club Late 19th Century, Papua New Guinea Trobiand Islands Wood with fine patination, 29 1/4 x 3 in. Lot Essay: Avid ethnographers, including Nelson Rockefeller, collected Massi

**Originally Listed At $500** Oceania, Samoan Islands, ca. late 19th century CE. A beautiful hand-carved wooden war club with a stocky cylindrical handle, a lightly-carinated hand guard, and an elonga

(2) Polynesian throwing clubs, 19th/20th c., possibly Fiji or Solomon Islands, carved wood with woven straw grips, one with incised design, on custom steel display stand, each club approx. 18"l, 16"l

Massim Island Sword Club Late 19th Century/Early 20th Century Papua New Guinea, Trobiand Islands Wood, 45 3/8 x 2 5/8 inches Lot Essay: Avid ethnographers, including Nelson Rockefeller, collected Mass

Oceania, Solomon Islands, Rennell Island (Mugaba), ca. early 20th century CE. A fascinatingly-shaped dance club, hand-carved from dark wood and stained to be almost black in color. The upper portion i

Oceania, Melanesia, northern Solomon Islands, North Bougainville District, Takuu Atoll (also Mortlock Islands or Marqueen Islands), ca. 19th century CE. A finely preserved adze of an elegant and minim

**Originally Listed At $1800** Oceania, Melanesia, northern Solomon Islands, North Bougainville District, Takuu Atoll (also Mortlock Islands or Marqueen Islands), ca. 19th century CE. A finely preserv

Melanesia, Vanuatu Island, ca. 19th century CE. A dramatic puppet carved from wood and accented with dried red-brown mud applied to bamboo stalks to form a long, phallic nose and bulging eyes that pro

**Originally Listed At $1500** Oceania, French Polynesia, Marquesas Islands, Enata peoples, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A hefty utilitarian tool known as an adze used for plowing, tilling,

Oceania, Micronesia, Nukuoro Island, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A rare example of a hand-carved wooden canoe model boasting fine form and intricate detailing. The round-bottomed canoe is

2 Solomon Islands Ceremonial Wood Dance Clubs, one inlaid x pattern w mother of pearl, the other with etched design and with kaolin approx 26.5' and 15" in length. n pigment ,\typical wear a 5.5" diam

**First Time At Auction** Oceania, New Zealand, Maori people, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A fine kotiate club, a traditional type of weapon, hand-carved from a hard wood and inlaid with in

Oceania, Solomon Islands, Malaita province, ca. 20th century CE. A tall wooden club, painted black with incised details filled with white, clay-like pigment in a thin line just above the handle and at

**Originally Listed At $200** Oceania, Melanesia, Solomon Islands, probably Malaita Island, ca. second quarter of the 20th century CE. A fine throwing club carved from dense, caramel-hued palm wood. T

**Originally Listed At $300** Oceania, Trobriand Islands, Massim peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. A wonderful and early example of a dance club with a thick handle, a semicircular pommel bulb, proj

Polynesia, Rennell Island, ca. 19th century CE. A large, handsome club carved from a strong, warm brown tropical hardwood, with a long body that slowly widens to a curved tip. The blade has a low, rai

Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Loango / Kasai river region, probably Mbala, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A wonderful bird effigy club, the wooden handle carved with the head and

**First Time At Auction** Native American, Western United States, Plains Tribes, Sioux (Lakota), ca. 19th century CE. A hand carved wooden dance club in the shape of a horse, made from a single piece

The lot features a 19th Century carved wood and tacked mirror board dance club from the Prairie Indians, possibly from the Ghost Dance Movement. The club mirror board is carved from one solid piece of

Solomon Islands War Club, 19th C. Inscribed in gold/brown paint: "Presented by Geo. W. Brown to his Friend at a Grand Fete. Tendered Him by the Club in Congress Hall Nov. 3, 1877." From the collection