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  • Two Pre-Columbian Pottery Bowls

    Two Pre-Columbian Pottery Bowls

    Lot: 1004
    Sold for: $175$140

    Two Pre-Columbian Pottery Bowls, with red and black geometric designs, and one with geometric designs on the exterior and figural motifs on interior, (reassembled from fragments), ht. 4 3/4, wd. 9 ...

  • Two Costa Rican Stone Mace Heads

    Two Costa Rican Stone Mace Heads

    Lot: 1034
    Sold for: $500$400

    Two Costa Rican Stone Mace Heads, c. 500-1000 AD, an owl-form mace head of alabaster with central insertion shaft hole, with large curved beak, recessed round eyes and horns, carved wings folded ...

  • Java Dance Theatre Mask, Topeng

    Java Dance Theatre Mask, Topeng

    Lot: 1074
    Sold for: $100$80

    Java Dance Theatre Mask, Topeng, early 20th century, wood and traces of pigments, with cut-out mouth and nostrils, with exaggerated features, ht. 11 3/4, wd. 9 in. Provenance: Eleanor Tulman ...

  • New Guinea Feather Bag

    New Guinea Feather Bag

    Lot: 1093
    Sold for: $313$250

    New Guinea Feather Bag, c. 1900, cassowary feather woven bag, with paper label "1903 Cassoway feather bag. Aunty had brought back from Australia," 11 x 8 1/2 in. Provenance: Eleanor Tulman ...

  • New Guinea Conch Shell Trumpet

    New Guinea Conch Shell Trumpet

    Lot: 1098
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    New Guinea Conch Shell Trumpet, Schouten Island, early to mid-20th century, pierced toward to top, with sooty blackened patina, (tip broken off), lg. 12 1/2 in. Provenance: The Rosman ...

  • New Guinea Coconut Cup

    New Guinea Coconut Cup

    Lot: 1099
    Sold for: $125$100

    New Guinea Coconut Cup, Maprik, early/mid-20th century, a cut-out section of a coconut formed into a ladle or cup, decorated on the exterior with a human face and two birds, dark patina, lg. 4 3/4, ...

  • New Guinea Wood Mask, Mwai

    New Guinea Wood Mask, Mwai

    Lot: 1100
    Sold for: $281$225

    New Guinea Wood Mask, Mwai, middle Sepik River, Sawos people, heavy wood ancestor mask, decorated with shells including nassa and cowrie, with boar tusks in nose and cassowary feathers around the ...

  • Four New Guinea Lime Spatulas

    Four New Guinea Lime Spatulas

    Lot: 1101
    Sold for: $88$70

    Four New Guinea Lime Spatulas, three fashioned from cassowary leg bones, and one from wood, lg, 13, 11, 9, and 6 3/4 in. Provenance: The Rosman collection, New York City. ...

  • Two Massim Lime Spatulas

    Two Massim Lime Spatulas

    Lot: 1122
    Unsold  

    Two Massim Lime Spatulas, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, early 20th century, a long clapper type with typical carved open scrollwork motifs, with a double-figured spatula with incised designs, ...

  • Massim Wood Effigy Hook

    Massim Wood Effigy Hook

    Lot: 1123
    Sold for: $281$225

    Massim Wood Effigy Hook, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, fish hook with a stylized anthropomorphic sitting figure on one end of the hook, with metal stand, lg. 15 1/2 in. Provenance: The ...

  • Two Massim Lime Gourds

    Two Massim Lime Gourds

    Lot: 1124
    Unsold  

    Two Massim Lime Gourds, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, early 20th century, gourds with ornamented stoppers, on with boar tusk, the other missing tusk, with fiber carrying strap with shells, ...

  • Two Massim Hardwood Clubs

    Two Massim Hardwood Clubs

    Lot: 1125
    Sold for: $531$425

    Two Massim Hardwood Clubs, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, carved from an ebony type hardwood, and decorated with finely incised scrollwork designs, filled with lime to highlight the ...

  • New Ireland Painted Wood Figure, Malagan

    New Ireland Painted Wood Figure, Malagan

    Lot: 1135
    Sold for: $200$160

    New Ireland Painted Wood Figure, Malagan, 20th century, small standing figure wearing an elaborate headdress, painted in natural pigments, (minor restorations), ht. 19 1/4 in. Provenance: The ...

  • Vanuatu Painted Clay Mask

    Vanuatu Painted Clay Mask

    Lot: 1136
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    Vanuatu Painted Clay Mask, Malekula Island, 20th century, painted clay modeled into a face, with boar tusks and natural fibers, lg. 7 3/4, wd. 7 1/2 in. Provenance: The Rosman collection, New ...

  • Vanuatu Painted Clay Mask

    Vanuatu Painted Clay Mask

    Lot: 1137
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    Vanuatu Painted Clay Mask, Malekula Island, 20th century, painted clay modeled into a face, with natural fibers and spider-webbing, lg. 9 1/2, wd. 6 1/2 in. Provenance: The Rosman collection, ...

  • Vanuatu Pig Killing Club, Atata

    Vanuatu Pig Killing Club, Atata

    Lot: 1138
    Sold for: $213$170

    Vanuatu Pig Killing Club, Atata, Ambrym Island, hardwood, the hammer features the head of an ancestor, used to slaughter pigs sacrificed at Mange society ceremonies, lg. 20 3/4 in. Provenance: ...

  • Miniature New Caledonian Club

    Miniature New Caledonian Club

    Lot: 1140
    Sold for: $500$400

    Miniature New Caledonian Club, Kanak, 19th century, hardwood club, with the head in the form of an abstract bird, lg. 16 1/2 in. Provenance: The Rosman collection, New York City. ...

  • Rennell Islands Club, Baukiana

    Rennell Islands Club, Baukiana

    Lot: 1143
    Sold for: $563$450

    Rennell Islands Club, Baukiana, Bellona Island, Solomon Islands, late 19th/early 20th century, hardwood, rattan, and sennit fiber, the strapped head carved into eight blunt points, lg. 15 1/4 in. ...

  • Santa Cruz Island Shell Breast Ornament, Tema

    Santa Cruz Island Shell Breast Ornament, Tema

    Lot: 1144
    Sold for: $531$425

    Santa Cruz Island Shell Breast Ornament, Tema, tridacna shell circular ornament, complete with the natural fiber string for suspension, (with rim chips and natural cracks), dia. 4 1/2 in. ...

  • Santa Cruz Woven Bag

    Santa Cruz Woven Bag

    Lot: 1145
    Sold for: $125$100

    Santa Cruz Woven Bag, Ndende, early 20th century, woven fiber bag, with geometric pattern in black, used for carrying betel nut equipment, bag 10 x 10 in. Provenance: The Rosman collection, New ...

  • Four Melanesian Combs

    Four Melanesian Combs

    Lot: 1147
    Sold for: $375$300

    Four Melanesian Combs, three from the Solomon Islands, and one bamboo, from Papua New Guinea, lg. 9 1/2, 8 3/4, 8, and 7 in. Provenance: The Rosman collection, New York City. ...

  • Solomon Islands Wood Bowl

    Solomon Islands Wood Bowl

    Lot: 1152
    Sold for: $225$180

    Solomon Islands Wood Bowl, San Cristobal Island, small elliptical bowl with pedestal base, painted black and heavily decorated with inlaid nautilus shells, each end ornamented with the front end of ...

  • Solomon Islands Wood Bowl

    Solomon Islands Wood Bowl

    Lot: 1153
    Sold for: $344$275

    Solomon Islands Wood Bowl, San Cristobal Island, elliptically-shaped bowl with pedistal base, painted black and heavily detailed with inlaid nautilus shells, each end ornamented with the front end ...

  • Solomon Islands Wood Figure

    Solomon Islands Wood Figure

    Lot: 1154
    Sold for: $531$425

    Solomon Islands Wood Figure, Central Solomon Islands, carved from an ebony hardwood, consists of a seated anthropomorphic figure with hands held under the chin, mouth open with teeth, the back ...

  • Solomon Islands Shell Funerary Plaque

    Solomon Islands Shell Funerary Plaque

    Lot: 1155
    Sold for: $1,063$850

    Solomon Islands Shell Funerary Plaque, Choiseul, Western Solomon Islands, flat plaque of tridacna shell, decorated with two friezes of circles, separated by a frieze of anthropomorphic figures and ...

  • Solomon Islands Sea Spirit Figure, Karamanua

    Solomon Islands Sea Spirit Figure, Karamanua

    Lot: 1156
    Sold for: $1,375$1,100

    Solomon Islands Sea Spirit Figure, Karamanua, standing figure with the head of a shark with up-swept tail, holding a shark upside down, decorated with shell inlay, varnished surface, (missing one ...

  • Nine Items of Pacific Jewelry

    Nine Items of Pacific Jewelry

    Lot: 1157
    Unsold  

    Nine Items of Pacific Jewelry, a shell disk belt from the Solomon Islands, shell nose ornament from the Solomons, two fiber earsticks with bamboo container from the Solomons, a shell nose ring, ...

  • Fijian Whale Tooth Pendant

    Fijian Whale Tooth Pendant

    Lot: 1163
    Sold for: $500$400

    Fijian Whale Tooth Pendant, 19th century, small bulbous pendant with large suspension hole, with metal stand, lg. 1 3/4 in. Provenance: The Rosman collection, New York City. ...

  • Miniature Fijian Throwing Club

    Miniature Fijian Throwing Club

    Lot: 1167
    Sold for: $313$250

    Miniature Fijian Throwing Club, hardwood, with the small domed head with evenly fluted carving, the butt end comes to a soft point, lg. 11 in. Provenance: The Rosman collection, New York City. ...

  • Fijian Throwing Club, Ula

    Fijian Throwing Club, Ula

    Lot: 1168
    Sold for: $281$225

    Fijian Throwing Club, Ula, 19th century, with partial tavatava carved grip, and broken hole for wrist strap at the butt end, partial old paper label, (age crack in ball), lg. 14 1/2 in. ...

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