Oceania & Australia
An extremely rare Duck-Billed Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) fur carriage rug or bed-cover
Australia, late 19th/early 20th century
A Polynesian hardwood Totokia, war club or battle hammer
Fiji, probably 18th century
A Polynesian ironwood Gata waka or war club
Fiji, probably 18th century
Two Polynesian hardwood Ula tavatava or throwing war clubs
Fiji, probably 18th century
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John Gould (1952)
Portrait of a Solomon Islander
A fine cotton needlework and bark cloth lining Dayak Child’s jacket
Indonesia, Kalimantan, circa 1900
Jane Sutherland (1853-1928)
Malayan or Indonesian tapir (Acrocodia indica)
(sold)
A Fine and large Fijian Kava bowl or tanoa
Early 19th century
A Fijian ula throwing club
Late 18th century or earlier
(sold)
A Solomon Islands club
19th century
A Maori Tewhatewha club
1st half 19th century
An extremely rare Papua wood sculpture of a Korwar
Early 19th century
A 19th century Maori pa kawahai fishing lure
(sold)
An Admirality Islands bowl
Late 19th century
An 18th century Fijian throwing club or Ula
(sold)
A Papua wood figure of a Korwar
Early 20th century
Provenance:
From the collection of a missionary, working in the Geelvink Bay area, on the peninsula of Roon, from 1906 till 1938, thence by descent
A New-Guinea bark-cloth dance apron
A Collection of Oceanian fish-hooks
19th-20th century
A fine Jelutong wood Dayak Kliau or shield
Indonesia, Borneo, Kalimantan, 1st half 19th century
Menno Simon Jacobus van Meeteren Brouwer (1882-1974)
Tahitian dancer
A Tapa Tree Bark Cloth
Oceania, Samoa, before 1970