[PACIFIC] New Guinea Headhunters and Cannibals

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

7 7/16" Pestle. South Pacific (New Guinea styling). High polished fossiliferous hardstone. Excellent symmetry. Use wear on knob. Ex-Lyle Guckert. Jackson COA

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

Folio Lithograph Published 1834-45, Zurich for "Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Menschen..." by Heinrich Rudolph Schinz. Lithographed by Karl Joseph Brodtmann. Paper Size: 14.5 x 10.5 inch (37 x 2

Dear Dad - Letters from New Guinea Account of the Ben S. Boyce exped. into the interior of Pacific New Guinea (Mekeo-region), being letters to his father W.D. Bo

South Pacific, Papua New Guinea, Kambanimbit Village, Sepik River, ca. 3rd quarter of the 20th century CE. Very attractive and unusual fiber and bark abstract figure - probably representing a figure i

Oceania/South Pacific, Papua New Guinea, Admiralty Islands, ca. 19th century CE. A rare obsidian-bladed knife with a Paranarium Nut resin handle colored with earthy red, charcoal, and lime pigment. Th

**Originally Listed At $250** Southwest Pacific, Papua New Guinea, Oro Province, ca. 1970 CE. A stunning tapa cloth presenting multiple decorative sinuous bands surrounded by upper and lower linear bo

**Originally Listed At $250** Southwest Pacific, Papua New Guinea, Oro Province, ca. 1970 CE. A stunning tapa cloth presenting multiple decorative sinuous bands surrounded by upper and lower linear bo

TITLE/CONTENT OF MAP: 'South-West Pacific' Netherlands New Guinea (Dutch: Nederlands-Nieuw-Guinea), the West Papua region is shown as Dutch: it was an overseas territory of the Kingdom of the Netherla

A elongated and exaggerated carved wood and painted "Mwai Mask" Iatmul peoples, Middle Sepik River, Papua new Guinea, South Pacific.Mai (or mwai) masks, were used by teachers in the young men's initia

(lot of 3) Stone artifacts from the South Pacific, including a Papua New Guinea stone adze blade, together with an octopus lure made of worked volcanic stone as a weight and lashed with sennit to a se

Heavy decorated Maori Club from New Guinea, South Pacific ------------------ please review all pictures carefully because they are part of the description and show condition issues if any ------------

New Guinea/New Caledonia, Pacific and Pacific Temperature/Density of Sea Surface. Lithograph Maps Published 1875-98, Edinburgh & London for "Encyclopaedia Britannica" Ninth Edition. Paper Size: 10.5 x

A group of 2 South Pacific objects. ++ Ancestor figure, Papua New Guinea, Sepik River.20th century. ++ Gope Board, Papua New Guinea, Papua Gulf. 20th century. Provenance: From a Private Mid-Western Co

Lot of 28 Lithograph Maps, incl Twin Hemisphere, Europe, Argentina, Canada, New Guinea, New Zealand, Australia, Pacific, Abyssinia, Egypt, Rhodesia, Central Africa, Algeria, Africa, Tibet, Japan, Russ

Lot of 28 Lithograph Maps, incl Twin Hemisphere, Europe, Argentina, Canada, New Guinea, New Zealand, Australia, Pacific, Abyssinia, Egypt, Rhodesia, Central Africa, Algeria, Africa, Tibet, Japan, Russ

A group of 3 Pacific Island objects. ++ Paddle in the form of a crocodile. ++ Sepik River style sculpture. ++ Asmat style sculpture.

**First Time At Auction** Pacific Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Hawaii, Tonga, the Cook Islands, or Papua New Guinea, ca. 1970 CE. A stunning tapa cloth presenting multiple bands of stylized geometric motifs

AA36104 PBY-5 Catalina “Black Cat” VP-34 Air Fleet Wing 17 Lt. Pfleeger New Guinea 1944 1/72 Scale, and AA36102 Consolidated PBY-5A(OA-10A) Catalina 2nd Emergency Rescue Squadron USAAF New

This Oceanic/Pacific carved ancestor mask, possibly a bull roarer, is from Papua New Guinea, Sepik River Region. There is carving on both sides, red ochre paint highlights. Pre-WW11 item brought back

Size: 116'' x 6.5'' x 14'' (295 x 17 x 36 cm). Cult hook. Wanleg or Kamangabbi. Blackwater Lakes, Karowari River. Carved wood, pigment. Source: Purchased by Clara Bingham from Pacific Gallery in Port

Lightweight carved wood bowl with handles. Measures 16" x 7 1/2" x 4". Provenance: Al Gehrman collection of artifacts from the South Pacific Islands. Al Gehrmann and his wife Helen were listed in the

A Pacific Islands mint hinged collection from the 1930's to the 1980's. Includes Norfolk Islands, Naura, Christmas Islands, Pitcairn Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Fiji, Tuvalu, Gilbert & Ellice Is