Shell Inlaid Carvings Papua New Guinea

Lot consists of large shell inlaid carved wood food bowl and two mortars with fish design. Also includes ancestor mask and decorative fish and bird carving.

Three carved totems of birds from Papua New Guinea, including hornbill painted balsa wood yam carving, painted hornbill carving, and heavy wooden carving of hawk atop human head with shell inlaid eyes

Six tribal carvings from Papua New Guinea including: Iatmul mythological carving with bird, fish and ancestor figures, painted with shell inlaid eyes; double ancestor figure; totem carving with multip

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

Three carved wooden figures, one statue of a seated elderly spirit, painted with cowrie shell inlaid eyes. One large Ramu bird-man figure, indigenous repair to insect damage present. One flute stopper

Pair Hand Carved & Hand Painted Papua New Guinea Masks. Measures approximately 18 inches in length. Inlaid shell eyes. From a designer decorated New Canaan, CT home.

Vintage African Papua New Guinea polycrhome carved wooden wall plaque depicting a face with inlaid shells for eyes. Measures approx. 30 3/4" height x 12" width.

Mask from the Sepik New Guinea region. Features the from of a face with inlaid shells and grass fringe. Measures 15" x 8". Good overall condition with losses and wear. In house, Hill Auction Gallery c

Two Carved Wood MasksTwo carved wood masks: a large Papua New Guinea of oval form with raffia hair and painted facial details with inlaid shell eyes; together with a West African Dogon warrior mask (t

Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Sepik River region, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A fabulous hand-carved wooden head of an ancestral figure. The elongated visage features inlaid white shell eyes, one w

Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Middle Sepik River, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A pair of hand-carved wooden crocodile figures, each with a horned nose and deeply inlaid cowrie shell eyes. The bodies

Vintage carved wood ancestral figure from the Sepik region in New Guinea. Features a stylized figural form with inlaid cowrie shell eyes and bird form at the top. These would have been placed in speci

Vintage carved wood ancestral figure from the Sepik region in New Guinea. Features a stylized figural form with inlaid cowrie shell eyes and bird form at the top. Measures 45" x 6" x 6". These would h

Vintage carved wood tribal ancestral figure from the Sepik region in New Guinea. Features a stylized figural form with inlaid cowrie shell eyes and cassowary bird features at the top. Further embellis

Collection of carved wooden hair combs from Papua New Guinea, including unique figurative crab hairpin with inlaid cowrie shells. Thirteen combs and one pin.

Vintage Tumbuan / Tambanum ceremonial mask from New Guinea. Features an elongated facial form decorated with inlaid cowrie shells set in mud as well as boars tusks and polychrome decoration and genuin

Papua New Guinea carved Wood Medicine Box, Snake devouring bird on the lid, hole inside has been sealed with metal plate; with inlaid cowrie shells, beads. Carved horned faces on the sides. 7Lbs Appro

Papua New Guinea Duk-Duk dance wand with raffia fiber beard. The blade double edged and painted to the face with a human like decoration and geometric pattern of hair. The reverse inlaid in shell and

(lot of 3) Sepik River Papua New Guinea carvings, consisting of an ancestor mask having a pigment decorated abstract surface surrounding stylized zoomorph features; together with a cowrie shell encrus

Post Finial finished wood Ancestor Carving with cowrie shell Eyes designed for wall or post, circa 1950, 24 inches tall

Papua New Guinea Palembai Wood Carving With Polychrome Painted Features And Cowry Shell Eyes. Estimated more than 50 yrs old. Oceanic art is the creative works made by the native peoples of the Pacifi

A Papua New Guinea Iatmul Middle Sepik Savi Head Carving carved wood, natural fiber, cowrie shell, having double sided anthropomorphic polychrome painted face with animal motifs including crocodiles.

Hand carved; cowrie shell eyes. Used in Malagan ceremonies. Malagan ceremonies are traditional cultural events that take place in New Guinea where malagan carvings are used mortuary rituals. Issued: 2

A Fine Old Kina Shell necklace , a crescent-shaped cut and polished clam shells of the yellow-lipped clam. They are worn by the men in the highlands of New Guinea as ornaments for the neck or chest an