Master Pieces

ex Palmer Family Collection



Trobriand Islands, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea

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AD late 1800s large & smaller examples of vayola curved convex form, with a tri-tiered decorated design and rows of 'E-motifs' in lime, black and...

MutuagaLimeSpatula 1

 

Superb fresh to the market large powerful beautiful unseen example in magnificent condition by the Papua New Guinea Master carver Mutuaga . Very heavy hard New Guinea ebony & lime infill Mutuaga sign...



A Superb Early Coolamon (Pitchi) example. Unusually large, of beautiful ovoid form with deep body & folded side wings. Exterior fluted designs, applied red ochre pigments throughout. Central Desert Be...
Torres Strait Mask 1884 Sir Arthur Hunter Palmer KCMG. Queensland Museum.

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War magic Parasi Head Hunter's Coup Staff circa WWII. 



Nomad Fly River, Papua New Guinea. 



For further discussion on this rare artefact see Papuans of the Trans Fly 1936 F.E. Williams pp266-269.  Wil...

spatula2Massim Trobriand, Turtleshell, Crescent Topped Lime Spatula. Very finely balanced and worked rococo piece of sublime form. Decorated with Lime infill and discs of chama-shell attached to the crescent ...
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Made only on the island New Ireland north of New Guinea, this superb idiophone friction drum is unique to Oceania. The instruments consist of a horizontal block of wood the upper portion of which is c...
leangle1Extremely early ancient example with fine rat tooth tula engraved fluted interlocking, asymmetrical design.  Fully fluted handle with knurled finger grip final.  This leangle club type with protruding...
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Star Head Foot Stamp Telughmoti Eromanga Vanuatu C1860.  Traditional 8 point star club heads.  Rare beautiful, large and elegant examples of this traditional club form.  Larger club ex Leo Fleischma...

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Woomera Engraved Fluted Composite Wolmi

Pelican Nest Dreaming Creation Hero Sturt Creek Kimberley W.A.

   

ARTIST:                     Tommy Chumpah  Waldmadjiri  Sturt Creek Station & others unknown

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ARTIST: Andrew Jack 'Chinny' O Chin 1917-1978



DIMENSIONS: 46cm (18 inches)



MATERIAL: Local wood Crows Ash



CONDITION: Fine very well preserved presentation



AGE: Circa Pre - WW11 Depression Era



ETHNOGRAPHY:...
Superb large fret work plaque of tridacna gigas (giant clam shell) Figures depict spirit ancestor world.

Richards & Roga 2002 field work with local senior informants suggests that the ethnographic/col...

Matty Island Wuvulu Manus Province.

Unique group of five hourglass form, traditional food dishes, with the best features of rocking, round bottom and razor thin edges in superb state of preservation. ...
Aboriginal Boat Coolomon

Aboriginal large and finely fluted and red ochre painted Coolomon.

Distribution from Gulf of Carpentaria across to Montejinnie Station, Northern Territory. Mudbura Language gro...
Gnarled Gum  Central Australia (working title)

 

Albert Namatjira  1902-1959

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DIMENSIONS:     27.5cm (11ins) x 38cm (15ins)

MATERIAL:         Artists paper, pencil (or charcoal) & water colour   ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Papua New Guinea Bride Price Axe.



Exceptional and superb large Bride Price axe head of a beautiful fine-grained, silicified, slightly hornsfelised, tuffaceous siltsone known as gaima. Mined...

Cosmos  c1950s     A$13,200  Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Fine Art, Sydney, 23/05/2007, Lot No. 49

Natural earth pigments on bark, 61 x 18 cm, Est: $2,500-3,500

Provenance: Arthur Beau Palmer Collection,...

Timor Sacred Betel Nut Boy

Early wood ancestor figure sacred boy presenting betel nut offering (Areca catchu). Superb and powerful early important museum display masterpiece.

Old label reads:  animist g...

Batakstaff1BATAK TOBA MAGIC SHAMAN STAFF

Tunggal Panaluan C1880

Sumatra, Indonesia  Length 168cm (66ins)

This elaborately carved beautiful Batak staff masterpiece is one of the finest old examples of type. It disp...
Supreme Beautiful Example. Important provenance great presence & power.

In the Admiralty Islands war charms were worn at the back attached to a cord strung about the neck. Phillipe Bourgoin (Charms of ...
Lot No. 96

Alec Mingelmanganu, circa 1905-1981, WANDJINA

natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark  

cane frame bound with bush string  

91 BY 50CM  Provenance:  

Acquired by the vendor  Arthur Beau Palmer...
Superb elegant example of Ramu River art of the highest order. This mask masterpiece displays all the refined wistful beauty & inscrutable subtlety of the greatest African, Japanese & Eskimo mask form...
These two superb, large important early traditional examples once provided the centre piece of Lord McAlpine s London House display of some 350 fine 19th Century Aboriginal artefacts.

FOR FULL DISCUSSI...

Solomon Islands Hair Comb C 1870s. Of sublime form & balance. Exquisite conformation. From a large old plantation collection including numerous glass plate photographs of the artefacts in situ with So...
La Grange shield of the finest Museum quality. Very large, early old example in fine condition. Kimberley of Western Australia. Shield front is fully decorated in finely incised rats tooth tula chisel...
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