artefacts - Vanuatu / New Hebrides
40 item(s) found:
Malekula Islands (Vanuatu) mambuki stick Used during the boys circumcision procedures. A red clay mask with protruding nose and curled pig tusks with spider webs and vegetable fibre hair on a wooden stick. Length 103 cm
Two New Hebrides ancestor sculptures, of stone, with classic ancestor visage in relief, Vanuatu, 10-22 cm (2)
A rare Malekula island overmodeled skull. Vegetal paste, human skull, spider's web, cowrie shells and feathers; a similar example illustrated in Oceanic Art by Anthony Jp Meyer. P.425
A ritual penis, Pentecost Island, Signed29 cm. Given to boys at the age of fourteen at circumcision
A ceramic figure, chalkstone ritual head, Vanuatu, 17 cm
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.…
Club. Vanuatu. Slender tapered head on long shaft terminating in a pointed hand-grip. 23.5 cm
Ancestral figure. Vanuatu, carved wooden seated figure with bulbous eyes. Height 33 cm
Two 19th century New Hebrides Yam pudding knives one with a regularly serrated and leaf shaped handle, length 55.2 cm, the other with serrated and linear pierced handle (with a wood split), length 56 cm.
Early Vanuatu club, superb early example with binding to handle. Rich old reddish brown patina. Pentecost Island. Early 20th century. Length 110 cm .
Rare Vanuatu club, carved from a single piece of hardwood, the base of the handle is circular; handle extends into a highly refined 'Hockey stick' form; rich, dark patina. 9th century. Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu. Length 1,02 cm, width 3.5 cm
19th century Vanuatu Ambrym Island ceremonial food platter with attached fibre and nut dance rattle, W. 76 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,…
A rare 19th century Vanuatu Ambrym Island ceremonial Tam Tam [slit drum] of massive cylindrical form with slit at the centre, the head with pierced nose and disc like eyes,…
Rare Vanuatu Malekula Island figure Temes nevimbure, wood, vegetable matter, boar's tusks and spider's webs, 120 x 54 cm; in fine original condition
Vanuatu Malekula Island flying fox figure with fern, vegetable matter and pigment
A Vanuatu interior Malekula Island grade society mask, Nambukie, the abstract human face with broad mouth, with boar's tusks issuing from the cheeks, painted in red, black and white mineral pigment, with attached smoked spider web.…
A rare Vanuatu Malekula Island mask, Nambukie, the abstract human face with broad open mouth with boars tusks issuing from the cheeks, painted in red, black and white mineral pigment and with dot motifs indicating the masks use in initiation ceremonies,…
Rare Vanuatu axe, with large steel trade head marked 'Lyons' attached to a tubular shaft ending in an abstract open-work butt. Deep, brown patina, 19th century. Length 92 cm. Width 9.5 cm
Vanuatu club, a 19th-entury hardwood sling-type club with rounded end and tubular shaft. Four bulbous knobs projecting from shaft and a cone-shaped head. Rich, blackened-brown patina. Length 81 cm. Width 7 cm
An early and rare Malekula mask, a superb and early mask with double face decorated with multicoloured chevron and dot motifs used for the Nalawan grade ceremonies. Cane, bark, bamboo, boars tusks fibre and pigment. Southern Malekula Vanuatu. Height 36 cm.…
Rare Vanuatu club, carved from a single piece of hardwood, the base of the handle is circular which then extends into highly refined ?Hockey stick' form. Dark patina, 19th century. Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu. Length 104 cm.
Two Vanuatu ancestor sculptures, of gourd and over-modelled natural fibres, earth encrusted, decorated with polychrome pigments, one set with dog teeth, 35-40 cm (2)
A rare New Hebrides grave ornament, of stone in the form of diminutive ancestor heads, above a fibre and earth-bound base, Vanuatu, 13 x 15 cm
Two New Hebrides marionette sculptures (temes nevimbure), the visage of earth, fibre and spider's web, one with pig tusk ornament and the other with inset teeth, decorated with polychrome pigments, each set on a wooden spike, Malekula Island, Vanuatu,…
Ambrym ancestor ceremonial mask (temar), of bark fibre, pig's tusks, spider webs and inset teeth, decorated with polychrome pigments, Fantan, Vanuatu, 42 cm.…
Two Ambryrm ancestor sculptures (temar ne ari), of bark fibre, cane, decorated with polychrome pigments, Vanuatu, 51-52 cm (2)
Ambrym ancestor ceremonial Sculpure (temar ne ari), in the form of a lizard of bark fibre, cane and inset teeth, decorated with polychrome pigments, Ranpupupre, Vanuatu, 87 cm. Provenance: purchased from Annandale Galleries, 2008.…
An Ambrym Island Grade sculpture (mague), of fern tree in classic robust form, Vanuatu, 217 cm
An Ambrym Island Grade sculpture (mague), of fern tree in classic robust form, remnant polychrome pigments mounted on a metal base plate, Vanuatu, 175 cm
A Vanuatu club, an early Pentecost Island club. Provenance: Zanesville Museum of Art (USA). Length 97 cm
19th century Polynesian dance ornament/staff head, possibly Vanuatu origin
Four (4) spears. Samoa and Vanuatu. All with finely carved barbed tips. 153, 197, 220 and 235 cm
Three (3) dance ornaments/clubs. Vanuatu. All with serrated edges, two with decorative carving and one with blue and white colouration. 50, 84 and 90 cm
Club. Vanuatu. Bulbous head with two raised bands. Slender handle with (part) carved disc shaped hand-grip 94 cm
Club. Vanuatu. Eight pointed star head on a tapering shaft, with (part) disc shaped carved hand-grip. 93 cm
War club. Vanuatu. 3-sided head with spherical nodules and a mushroom cap (part missing), the handle with shaped bulbous grip. 98 cm
An Ethnographic Ambrym ceremonial Hammer (atata), c.…
Vanuatu club. Star head on tapering shaft, with stand
A fine South Pentecost Island ancestor mask, c.…