All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Oceanic : Weapons : Pre 1930 item #1376501 (stock #Oc116)
Made and used by the tribal indigenous Aborigine people of Australia, this old Mulga wood boomerang was smoothed using a stone adz...no sandpaper in the outback when this was made... the traditional decorative surface markings were made by pressing a hot poker and wire onto the wood surface forming the running kangaroo and border lines...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Oceanic : Weapons : Pre 1940 item #1156072 (stock #Oc115)
This dagger was made from the leg bone of a cassowary bird. It was carved and used as a weapon by one of the indigenous tribal groups of Papua New Guinea, aka PNG. Approx 8 inches long with great patina and makes a wonderful example of an ethnographic artifact.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Oceanic : Weapons : Pre 1950 item #1313826 (stock #1103)
A very rare pair of hand guards or constructed from a course woven fibre each incorporating three rows of shark's teeth secured with a fine hand made string or cord. These 'gloves' were made on the Gilbert Islands (now Kiribati) probably during the first half of the 20th Century. Condition: excellent - the fibre is frayed in places but apparently no damages or losses...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Oceanic : Weapons : Pre 1950 item #1276715 (stock #1181)
Mid-20th Century Melanesian New Hebrides Islands (Vanuatu) Shield, with woven rattan attachments. 67 x 10 inches, 170 x 25.5 cm.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Oceanic : Weapons : Pre 1950 item #1276713 (stock #1180)
Asmat Tribe War Shield and Spirit Protecting Shield, made on the Dutch (Indonesian) side of New Guinea (Irian Jaya) by the Asmat people. It shows carving done by stone or shell tools, rather than more recent metal-carved examples. 74 x 20 inches, 188 x 51 cm.