THE OCEANIC ARTS: VINTAGE TIKI COLLECTION AUCTION

(1990s) A framed enlargement of the famous photo of the boys on The Big Trip. Created for display at OA.28"x41.5"VG+.

(Mid-Century) A New Guinea post top or finial of a stylized bird with applied red pigment and a New Guinea Coastal Sepik/ Ramu River Sculpture and a w

(Mid-Century) New Guinea, Lake Sentani carved panel or platter. Stylized spirit face in the center with painted lime infill. Relief-carved bird head.2

(Mid-Century) Impressively carved with openwork and strap handle, featuring cut pearl shell triangular inlays.6"x7".VG+ with typical wear.

(Mid-Century) New Guinea Blackwater River carved drum with bold lime paint. Complete with woven drum head.18"x4.5".VG+ with typical wear.

(Mid-Century) Likely from San Cristobal but possibly Malaita Island. Featuring an impressive depiction of a flying fish God, standing on a Bonito as w

(Mid-Century) Carved two-tone ironwood sculpture with surrealistic, abstract figures.17"x1.5".VG+ with typical wear.

(Mid-Century) Bold pigments with deeply-carved clan motifs. Hung in the OA breakroom for decades and can be seen in photos.77"x13".VG+ wit...

(Mid-Century) Hardwood with shaft woven with rattan and orchid stem fiber. Detailed Portrait like ancestor face with exaggerated open mouth. 1940

(Mid-Century) A detailed ornamental carving with ancestral spirit head and ocher polychrome scheme.15"x4.5".VG+ with typical wear.

(Mid-Century) Middle Sepik Ancestor figure stand on a base with a whimsical snake head. The eyes are framed with applied cowrie shell and fiber for th

(Mid-Century) Complex carving with stacked and inverted ancestor figures. Applied ocher and charcoal paint.48"x5".VG+ with typical wear.

(Mid-Century) Middle Sepik hardwood drum with original skin and fiber top.28"x7".VG+ with typical wear.

(Mid-Century) Of various cultures but mostly New Guinea and Melanesia.Tallest 58".VG+ with typical wear.

(Mid-Century) New Guinea House Panel with Painted Clan Motifs32"x8".VG+ with typical wear.

(Mid-Century) Openwork carved profile sculpture. The seated "mantis-style" figure surmounted by standing ancestor figure with stylized hor...

(Mid-Century) New Guinea woven fiber Abelam Yam Harvest Mask.27"x15".VG+ with typical wear .

(Mid-Century) A classic Asmat ceremonial Bone Dagger with cassowary feathers, possibly human or cassowary bone woven fiber and job’s tear see

(Early 20th Century) Formed of two pieces of jointed hardwood. Stone head secured with rattan binding.28"x16".VG+ with typical wear .

(Mid-Century) Carved wood food suspension hook, featuring a full female ancestor figure with feet curving over the base of the hook which forms a styl