FIJI Chief Whale Tooth Necklace 1860s (SOLD)
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Exceedingly early rare beautiful example comprising one female ulutoayalewa & six male ulutoatagane whale tooth dart heads.
Stylistically identical to Fiji Museum Catalogue items 111 &112 p 68 de...
Vanuatu New Hebrides Ambryn Masterworks Kanak War Clubs
Six beautiful superb old elegant rare examples.
Very important beautiful set of clubs. Large Superior, finest masterpiece examples.
Largest 108cm (42.5 inches).
Fragmentary evidence indicates that ...
Pacific Traditional Woven Fans - Samoa, Fiji, Tonga
Made from the closely woven leaves of Pandanus, Coconut & Fan Palm which are hand cut in fine pieces and sun-bleached.
A strong Pandanus stem is used at the base on which the shape of the Fan is then...
Pacific North West Coast Moon Mask
The mask may be Haida and or Kwakwaka'wakw tradition. Pacific Northwest Coast Indian masks are mainly used for cere...
Samoa War Club nifa otti
No.1
Club or Dance wand. Beautiful, traditional and intricately carved decoration & lime infill with bars. Thick & heavy enough for an execution club or ceremonial ritual baton.
Length: 61 cm (24 inche...
Pacific Adze Tonga Fiji Samoa Maori
Pacific Argonauts tool par excellence. Pure beauty of form & function.
The stone & shell adze was the most important Polynesian tool. The Pacific adze felled trees, hewed timbers for canoes and canoe p...
Pacific Shell Adze (Tridacna gigas)
Adze tridacna gigas (giant clam shell)
Two fine examples, in good condition, of the tool that populated the Pacific.
Length: 14cm (5.5 inches).
Pair US $500
The Tridacna shell for adze production, part...
Tabua Inscribed Presentation Ceremonial Whale Tooth Ivory (SOLD)
Tabua Length 15 cm (6 inches) x 6.5 cm (2.5 inches) x 4.5 cm (1.75 inches). Very heavy massive thick old Sperm whale tooth.
Sinnet Cord 97 cm (38 inches)
Warm deep rich honey aged handled patina.
L...
Austral Island Paddle Pair SOLD
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A rare pair of two distinctly different styles of this Ra'ivavae Island ceremonial paddle form. Both display exquisite miniature tightly carved geometric decor of the fi...
Fiji Split Whale Tooth Ivory Necklace wasekaseka (SOLD)
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Fiji Split Whale Tooth Ivory Necklace wasekaseka
Two old Sisi sections. 19thCentury
These two beautiful old sections of rare split whale tooth ivory are from the impressive wasekaseka – necklaces S...
Rapa Nui Easter Island Male Figure mo'ai kavakava
Sporting the small, goatee beard typical of both male and female Rapa Nui wood images, this figure wears large circular ornaments in the artificially e...
Tabua Presentation Ceremonial Whale Tooth - Fiji (SOLD)
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Tabua Tooth Length 16cm (6.25ins) x 7.5cm (3 inches) x 5cm (2 inches).
Very heavy, massive thick old, Sperm whale tooth
Sinnet Cord 110cm (43 inches)
This old tooth is extremely d...
Oceanic Fish Hook Pacific Whale Ivory (SOLD)
Superb very large and beautiful, three dimensional graceful, elegant example of pure form & function.
Unknown Pacific origin: Hawaiian Tonga Maori. Mid 1800s.
Length 10cm (4.0 inches)
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