artefacts - Solomon Islands
85 item(s) found, 1-50 shown:
Solomon Islands necklace. This necklace is made up of shell money, seed pods and teeth with one pig tusk on the end
Solomon Islands whales tooth necklace. This necklace would have been worn by chiefs
Solomon Islands head hunting shell necklace, the necklace has two faces similar to the carved figures that were placed under the bow of war canoes.…
A Solomon Islands carved wood short dance wand, the tapered diamond section grip with multiple carved mother-of-pearl inlays, the oval ball head with circular inlays, the butt end of tapered cylindrical form. Length 30.5 cm
19th century Solomon Islands shield. Woven cane and bamboo rectangular construction with white ochre decoration, circa 1910 Tost and Rohu's fur and curio Stores label attached verso. 101 x 24 cm
Six early Solomon Islands fish hooks. Hooks formed from fire-bent turtle shell lashed to mother of pearl shanks. Two different styles. Length 7 cm (each approx.)
19th century Solomon Islands shield. Finely woven wicker around coiled cane frame. Remnant of plaited edge binding. 71 x 21 cm
A Solomon Island chest pendant (cap cap), the pierced shell disk with an openwork shell frame to anterior, fibre, shell and glass bead tassel, 15 cm
A Bougainville bow and three Arrows, the palm wood bow bound with split polychrome orchid stem weave, the hard wood arrows with polychrome pigments, the shafts woven with split orchid stem, Solomon Islands, 190-175 cm (3) .…
A fine Bougainville bow and three Arrows, the bow of palm wood bound with split polychrome orchid stem, the arrows of composite form, the hard wood tips with fibre and resin bound bone bards and polychrome orchid stem binding above bamboo shafts,…
A Solomon Island's hardwood club, Ex Denis Dutton collection. Length 114 cm
Two Solomon Islands stone axe-heads, each of anthropomorphic form 12 cm and 9 cm
Solomon Islands hunting bow, traditional form with correct bow line. Fine patina. Old collection no 16497.1. Eady collection Ex. Auckland Museum. Length 192 cm.
A Santa Cruz Island gourd, neck secured with finely woven fibre. Width 12 cm.
Solomon Island arm bracelets, a group of four early arm adornments (three shell, one fibre, gum and pigment) . Max length 28 cm.
A Solomon Island sculpture, of wood in form of a crayfish, decorated with inset mother of pearl shell, 10 x 40 cm
Two Solomon Islands chest ornaments, of shell, mother of pearl, dog teeth, boar tusk, seeds, and coconut discs, 60-81 cm (2)
A collection of Solomon Islands body ornaments, shark teeth, stingray mandibles, glass beads and shell amulet, 5.5-39 cm
Solomon Islands dog head with painted black nose and pink gums. Length 19 cm.
Small gourd, with woven fibre holder. Santa Cruz Island. Height 13 cm, width 8 cm
'Captain Tilly' Melanesia breast pendant (Santa Cruz group) . Shell with geometric tortoise shell decoration.
Santa Cruz breast pendant shell with geometric tortoise shell decoration. Diameter 15 cm. Length 52 cm.
Rare Santa Cruz Abagusaro priests arm band, comprised of numerous white, red and black shell discs woven together on fibre attachments. Length 55 cm
Santa Cruz Island pendant 'Tema', gold lipped nacre shell cut in a crescent shape with attached overlaid frigate bird rendered in tortoise shell, held on a fibre cord with white and red cut currency discs and small tortoise shell beads W.18 cm
Solomon Islands pig jaw pendant, with bound flax fibre suspension cord L.19 cm
Cut tortoise shell nose adornment figure, Santa Cruz, W.9.2 cm
Solomon Islands clam shell nose adornment, housed in original wooden cylindrical container with rolled flax leaf stopper L.23 cm
An old Solomon Islands frigate bird carving depicted as in flight with inlays of triangular shell sections, the wings slotting to the body, traditional forked tail. Star harbour, San Cristobal, Solomon Islands, raised on later stand. Length 74 cm.…
Papua New Guinea Sepik river nose ornament, pigs tusk and nacre shell with later piercing and attached cord with cut Solomon Islands currency discs. Sourced in the Solomon Islands
A rare Malekula Island over modeled skull, with vegetable matter, human skull, spider web and cowrie shells a similar smaller example sold in Art + object's Oceanic sale on March 3rd. An example also illustrated in Oceanic Art by Anthony J.P. Meyer, p.…
A Solomon Island carved figure, with horsehair
Solomon Island club, Malaita, with a diamond shaped head and raised mid-rib in the form of a cross moving down to a hooked crescent shaped butt. Blackened fibre binding on grip. Mid brown patina. A very good example, length 67.5 cm width 16.8 cm.
Fine Solomon Island war club, long, slender, leaf blade in orthodox form, signs of repair apparent. Length 1,23 cm, width 10 cm
Fine Solomon Island war club, in orthodox form, slight damage to upper leaf blade. Good, rich patina. Length 1,13 cm, width 17 cm
A collection of various artefacts housed in a colonial cabinet including two Solomon Island fish hooks, Santa Cruz necklace, two Santa Cruz nose ornaments, one small NZ pounamu toki,…
Santa Cruz Island whale's tooth pendant pierced with attached cord with cut shell currency discs and dogs teeth. Length 45 cm
Santa Cruz Island shell pendant 'Tema', gold lipped mother of pearl shell, turtle shell and fibre, the crescent shaped shell overlaid in turtle shell carved in the form of stylised birds with attached cords with cut shell currency discs. Width 14 cm
Fine Solomon Island paddle, fine leaf shaped blade leading into an elongated tubular shaft with riased double band near top with a hooked c shaped terminal inlayed with mother of pearl. Rich honey brown and blackened variated patina. Length 152 cm
Two Solomon Island spears, barb blackened hardwood tips with zigzag motif bound on with woven sennit. Long wood shafts with old collection label. Length 220 cm. Length 268.8 cm.
Fine Solomon Island war club, long slender leaf blade in orthodox form. Smoked brown patina. Florida Island style. Length 130 cm.
Solomon Island comb, a superb flat comb made with strips of coconut wood lashed together middle area covered in a black gum with inlaid shell and leading to a delicate crescent shaped finials at top. Length 25 cm.
Santa Cruz Islands canoe-shaped dance Wand with hand painted decoration, for use during iniatory dances for young men-to-be and tapering to a knob end. Some damage to sharper end. Length 81 cm
South Pacific headdress band possibly from either Marquesas or Solomon Islands (see Hooper book page 100). Pierced porpoise teeth and trade heads. C. 1870- 1880. Length 40 cm. (Tilly collection)
A 19th century Solomon Islands shell inlay comb the twelve palmwood teeth spreading from a black paste coated tapering ?…
A 19th century Solomon Island hardwood club, the shaft of oval section terminating in a ridged blade with unusual protruding ancestral masks. Length 107 cm
A 19th century Solomon Islands club the heavy wood with a dark patination, the leaf shaped blade with a central ridge to either surface, the shaft terminating into a point inlaid with four shell ?Kill' beads. Length 115.5 cm
Venerated Bonito Totem, of significant size offering orthodox triangulated mother of pearl incised scales to celebrate the luminous nature of this important food source and spiritual totem.…
A collection of three Malaita Island body ornaments, of woven fibre, embroidered with polychrome shell discs, 42-60 cm (3)
Two Solomon Island Weatlh ornaments, the multi-strand threaded polychrome shell discs with wooden spacers, one strand damaged, each 208 cm (2)
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