sculptures - New Guinean
32 item(s) found:
A Sepik sculpture, of wood, in the form of two pigs in coitus, Papua New Guinea, 40 cm (2) Provenance: from the Dr. David S. Johnson collection of Pacific Island and New Guinea Art
A Sepik ancestor sculpture, of wood, shell inset eyes, polychrome pigments, Papua New Guinea, 48 x 19 cm
An Asmat ancestor sculpture (mbis), of wood, the openwork apex fragment, polychromes pigments, Irian Jaya, 17 x 29 cm
A Sepik ancestor sculpture, of wood with shell set eyes, Papua New Guinea, 41 x 10 cm
A Sepik sculpture, of wood, in the form of a bird, shell set eyes, Papua New Guinea, 88 x 34 cm
A Sepik ancestor sculpture, of wood, polychrome pigments, shell set eyes, shell ornament attached, Papua New Guinea, 85 x 26 cm
A Sepik ancestor sculpture of wood, polychrome pigments, shell set eyes, fibre and shell tassels, Papua New Guinea, 160 x 40 cm
A Sepik ancestor sculpture, of wood, polychrome pigments, woven cane and feather tassels attached, Papua New Guinea, 77 x 25 cm
A Sepik ancestor sculpture, of wood, shell set eyes, feather and fibre tassels, Papua New Guinea, 87 x 21 cm
A Sepik ancestor sculpture, of wood, Papua New Guinea, 59 x 19 cm
A Sepik ancestor sculpture, of wood, shell set eyes and fibre tassels, Papua New Guinea, 58 x 13 cm
A Sepik ancestor sculpture, of wood, polychrome pigment, inset shell eyes and fibre tassels, Papua New Guinea, 56 x 15 cm
A Sepik ancestor sculpture, of wood, inset shell eyes, Papua New Guinea, 42 x 15 cm
A Sepik ancestor sculpture, of wood, inset shell, polychrome pigments, Papua New Guinea, 56 x 8 cm
A Sepik ancestor sculpture, of wood decorated with inset shell, polychrome pigments, feather and fibre tassels, Papua New Guinea, 19 x 67 cm
A Sepik ancestor sculpture, of wood in male form, shell inset eyes, polychrome pigments, feather and fibre tassels, Papua New Guinea, 75 cm
Four Sepik artefacts, of wood, including two ancestor masks one with shell set eyes, a headrest, and an ancestor sculpture, Papua New Guinea, 12- 46 cm (4)
A Massim sculpture, of wood in the form of a female, white inlay, Trobriand Islands, 62 cm Provenance: from the Dr. David S. Johnson collection of Pacific Island and New Guinea Art
An old Abelam ancestor sculpture, of wood in diminutive stylised yam ancestor form, decorated with polychrome pigments, weathered patina, Papua New Guinea, 29 cm
A Sepik ancestor sculpture, of wood in large female form decorated with polychrome pigments, remnant resin, Papua New Guinea, 170 x 37 cm. Provenance: from an Australian collection
A collection of four New Guinea artefacts, of wood and baked clay, including an Iatmul flute stopper, two Wosera ancestor sculptures and an Abelam yam ancestor sculpture, Png, 13-54 cm (4)
A New Ireland ancestor sculpture, of wood with shell inset eyes, polychrome pigments, Bismarck Archipelago, 134 cm
A New Ireland ancestor sculpture, of wood with remnant polychrome pigment, Bismarck Archipelago, 115 cm
Pair of Malekula ceremonial ancestor sculpture, of tree fern, in male and female form, decorated with pig tusks, polychrome pigments, Vanuatu, 114-128 cm (2). Provenance: Purchased from New Guinea Primitive arts, mid 1990s
An Abelam ancestor sculpture, of wood in classic female yam form, Png, 151 cm
A Sepik ancestor sculpture, of wood in female form, polychrome pigments, Png, 90 x 82 cm
A Wosera ancestor sculpture, of wood in classic female yam form, polychrome pigments, Png, 145 x 26 cm
A Kwoma ancestor sculpture (mindja), of wood in ovoid form, the recessed visage with pierced eyes and mouth, heavy brow reach with projecting spike nose above openwork undulating ridge, polychrome pigments, Png, 194 x 39 cm
A Papuan Gulf ancestor sculpture (imunu), of wood, in abstract anthropomorphic form, decorated with polychrome pigments, Png, 60 x 70 cm
An ethnographic Washkuk ancestor sculpture (nogwi), c.early 20th century, of wood in the form of a female, decorated with polychrome pigments, PNG, 113 x 33 cm.
A fine Abalam cult sculpture (nogwi), of wood in classic male yam ancestor form, decorated with polychrome pigments, Papua New Guinea, 112 x 18 cm., collected during the 1970s.
A fine Washkuk yam fertility sculpture (mindja), of wood in slender ovoid form, the anterior decorated with polychrome pigments, the visage with prominent brow and projecting spike nose, pierced eyes,…