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Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Oceanic: Sculpture (2)

A Papua New Guinea Wanuma shoulder shield Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Oceanic: Sculpture: Pre 1920 item# 1074524 (stock# AC09.1.55)
click for details		michael cichon tribal arts 941.224.0440 $500.00...further provenance on request
Stone-carved, heart-shaped form made from a heavy wood with an encrusted, darkened surface. Fiber cord is quite old, but was, undoubtedly, replaced sometime after the shield was made. This smaller type of shield comes from the Adalbert Mountains, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea and dates to the very early 20th C. 32.50"L x 17"W, in very fine condition, overall, but with some abrasions, wear, and small age cracks, as would be expected. Provenance: deaccessioned from a Florida Museum.

A Papua New Guinea stone-carved wooden bullroarer Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Oceanic: Sculpture: Pre 1920 item# 1009937 (stock# P88510)
click for details		michael cichon tribal arts 941.224.0440 $1,200.00... further provenance on request
A fine, old, hardwood example of a bullroarer carved from a salvaged canoe paddle. The organic, polychrome pigments have nicely mellowed over time, and the backside of this board retains a smoothly polished, dark, shiny patina from many years of use as a canoe paddle. A small hole at the top was provided to suspend the bull roarer from a cord. A two-dimensional, somewhat symmetrical anthropomorphic image representing a transformational character associated with the ancestral and animal-spirit wo ...click for details

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