Solomon Islands tridacna Giant Clam Shell Bracelet Arm Band 1860 (SOLD)
In as collected fine condition.
SOLD
PROVENANCE: From the Collection of; Reverend Isaac Rooney, F.R.G.S.,...
Photographs Post Contact 1800s
Images par excellence of unsurpassed ethnographic importance.
Hivo reef Solomon Islands. Tamako dreadnought canoe warriors paddle defiantly past the wreck of the schoon...
Fishing Net Sinker Weigh Stone - Marovo Lagoon Solomon Islands
Superb beautiful and heavy old traditional Net sinker weight.
Made of pecked stone in the Nguzu toto isu head form and used as weight for the bottom of fishing nets. New Georgia Vella Lavella Solomon ...
Solomon Island Apira Ceremonial Shell Inlay Food Bowl (SOLD)
Of classical form this large bowl features an unusual full Benito fish figure carved into the bowl cavity with elaborate haliotis mother-of-pearl shell inlay and terminating in finials in the form of...
Nguzu Nguzu War Canoe Prow Figurehead Toto isu
A Nguzu bought by a secondhand dealer in Brisbane at local flea market & presented to me for sale in my Gallery September 2007. Has no other background provenance & no ...
Solomon Buka Family Group Figure SOLD
SOLOMON Island Bougainville Buka rare family group of portrait figures c1920s
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Beautiful old stylised realistic portrait figures. Man holds ceremonial figured staff & child a duck. Group includes a ...
Solomon Island Barbed Spear Collection
1880s important and rare early Solomon collection. Includes photo of plantation owner pre WW1 outside hut with two of the barbed & bound spears (2 & 3) in this collection.
Superb state of preservation....
Feast Bowl
Beautiful Traditional six figure ritual feast bowl.
Bonito Flying Fish six figure finals and nautilus shell inlay.
Displays working adze marks and deep rich dark warm age...
Solomon Island Life Sized Portrait Bust SOLD
SOLD
Artists from the Solomon Island group produced some of the finest & most diverse human 3D figures of all the ethnograph...
Solomon Island Female Figure (SOLD)
Solomon Island Buka Figure
Solomon Bougainville Buka Passage Kokorra Canoe Paddles SOLD
Buka Figure SOLD
Beautiful stylised realistic portrait figure holding a Kokorra dance paddle in left hand & ribbed paddle club (see Waite Plate 3,14,17).
Figure w...
