NEW GUINEA CANNIBAL SPOON

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

Markham Valley, Huon Peninsula. 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

**Originally Listed At $300** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, lower Ramu River region, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. An interesting spoon, hand-carved from wood, with a small scoop and an abstract anth

Item: Up for sale from a recent collector in Honolulu Hawaii this antique coconut carved spoon with human face motif on the handle that is supposed to have come (as per the collection registry) from t

A. S. Meek A Naturalist in Cannibal Land London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1913.First Edition.22.5cm x 14cm. xviii, 238 pages, 32 plates. Red publisher's cloth. Cloth a bit flecked and rubbed. Foxing. Bookplat

COCONUT SHELL SPOON PAPUA NEW GUINEA carved and polished coconut shell, with a deep bowl and anthropomorphic handle(11cm long)Footnote: Provenance: Private collection, United Kingdom

Group of utilitarian coconut shell carvings from Papua New Guinea tribes. Includes two spoons, two Wosera vessels(possibly whistles or lime gourds), thre Abelam spinning tops, one drinking cup, one Ab

Wooden spoon smoothly carved in one continuous piece of wood. Region: Lower Sepik RiverCountry: Papua New Guinea Date: 1936 or earlierMaterial: WoodDimensions: 7" x 2 1/2" Provenance: Louis Pierre Led

Three Coconut Shell Spoons, PNG. Azera, Markham Valley, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea,Early 20th century. Ranging in size from: 4'' x 3'' x 2'' (10 x 8 x 5 cm) to: 5'' x 2'' x 1'' (13 x 5 x 3 cm).

A very nice older feast spoon from the Huon Gulf/Tami Islands, Papua New Guinea. The long wooden ladle features a finely carved ancestor head and well handled surface. The feast ladle measures 34 x 4.

Collection of ten spatulas and spoons, for eating and stirring Sago, from various tribes of Papua New Guinea. Large variety of styles, make great examples of different tribal wood carving traditions.

Origin: Papua New Guinea Date: 2nd half 20th century Materials: Wood Size: 37cm Spoon and fork, large spoon and large fork cannibal cutlery. Sold without stand. No Reserve: This lot starts at $1 and h

GOULD (JOHN) AND RICHARD BOWDLER SHARPE The Birds of New Guinea and the Adjacent Papuan Islands, Including Many New Species Recently Discovered in Australia, 25 original parts, FIRST EDITION, 320 han

wood, feathers, rattan, plant fibre cord, blackish mass, anthropomorphic head on stylized body (legs recognizable in back view), plume of twenty-six trimmed frigate bird feathers, old collection numbe

wood ("Alstonia scholaris"), shell inlay ("Turbo Phetolatus opercula"), lime, red ochre, black pigment, hairdo from short cut brush-like plantfibre tufts, which were pressed in blackish mass, thin ver

Papua New Guinea Abelam Wooden Figure of a Man With shell eyes, decorated with red and black pigments. Height of figure 35 inches (88.9 cm)

Wosera, New Guinea lintel, complete and intact. Wosera people, Middle Sepik Region. Decorated in polychrome red, yellow, white and black traditional paints. Line of eleven clan ancestor depictions in

lime wood (Alstonia Scholaris), coconut husk, rattan, bark cloth, plant fibre, fabric, lime, pigments (red, black), opercula, inventory no. "87L162", rest., baseEarlier ethnologists believed that "tat

Papua New Guinea New Ireland Malagan mask, hand carved wood, polychrome decoration, cloth & fiber covering, 14-1/2" h

New Guinea, ca. late 19th - early 20th century. A fine carved early Sepik hook figure. Custom base. MEASUREMENTS Height: 15 inches / 38 cm SHIPPING $35 flat-rate shipping in the continental U.S. (insu

Karem River, Papua New Guinea, carved wood shield, the face or mask standing out 1"-2" in relief, the zigzag designs all over quite extensive and dramatic optically, the back with its shield's handle

The auction featuring items from the Saul Brandman Foundation. Sculpture in carved wood fabrication. Region of origin: Korewori River area, Middle Sepik, PapuaNew Guinea. The sculpture is a Yipwon fig

The 18th/19th century carved wood feast bowl attributed to the Melansian People of Admiralty Island, Papua, New Guinea the bird form with pronounced head and openwork 'wing' handles, raised on four in

wood, pigments, shell inlay, black clay like mass, base The term "malagan" refers collectively to a complex series of ceremonies and the visual art forms associated with them. Most of these impressive