Three New Guinea bone spatulas A Trobriand Islands cassowary bone lime spatula with beads at the end, with label, 'Lobua Village Kiriwina,' with t...

A New Guinea Gope board Papuan Gulf, the front decorated with an ancestor figure carved in low relief, with colored pigmented highlights, (age cra...

A New Guinea Abau shield Green River, Upper Sepik River, Sandaun Province (West Sepik Province), 20th century, with pierced top finial, adorned wi...

Two carved wood New Guinea bowls Boiken, East Sepik Province, two wood food bowls, one carved deeper than the other, each with abstract carved mot...

A New Guinea reliquary figure Sepik River Province, mid-20th century, the long bamboo pole with woven rattan basketry torso, with outstretched arm...

A New Guinea bark painting Middle Sepik river, 20th century, the sheet of bark with a multicolored design painted on one side, mounted and framed....

A New Guinea sago peg Middle Sepik River, early/mid-20th century, the large peg, with graduated opening at one end, the other with a face on each ...

A New Guinea bamboo lime container Middle Sepik River, Papua New Guinea, early 20th century, the complex, finely incised design burnt into the bam...

A large Massim lime spatula Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, late 19th/early 20th century, decorated on either side at the top end with incise...

Three Massim lime spatulas Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, each with long flattened handle, one with a handle in the form of a human figure, ...

A Massim wood food bowl Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, 19th century, the hollowed-out bowl with wide flat rim, decorated with scrollwork, wi...

A Massim lime spatula Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, early 20th century, carved with the typical figure with complex scrollwork designs, tra...

Three Soloman Islands clubs A paddle club from Guadalcanal, and two clubs with traces of woven fiber bindings from Malaita Island. lg. 50, 49 1/2...

An Admiralty Islands beaded armband 19th century, bead decorated in multicolored geometric designs, on a wide bark band. wd. 2 3/4, lg. 4 in. Fo...

Two Solomon Islands War Clubs Alafolo Malaita, early 20th century, two long straight-sided clubs with raised central ridge, terminating in an abst...

An Aborigine bark painting Wandjina Kimberly region, Western Australia, with large radiating head and abbreviated body below, representing the mai...

Two Polynesian war clubs 19th century, a Tongan hardwood club, with broken lug at the butt end, and a Fijian bovai club with tavatava design at th...

A Tongan tapa cloth Early 20th century, a large painted bark cloth from the Tongan islands, decorated in the typical manner. ht. 94 1/2, wd. 164 ...

A Samoan war club 19th century, palm stalk style short club with flared end and raised bands, the handle with pierced triangular lug. lg. 27 3/4 ...

A Fijian walking staff I titoko 19th century, hardwood staff with a long carved tavatava design at one end. lg. 50 in. Footnotes: Provenance: Th...

A Micronesian woven sash Pohnpei, Caroline Islands, woven banana fiber, dye decorated at one end with geometric motifs, zigzag lines and repeated ...

A Dogon snake staff Mali, the wood staff coated with a heavily encrusted patina, the head with a protrusion on one side, mounted on a base. lg. 2...

A Dogon iron neckrest Standing on a narrow, rectangular base with flat, curved pillow and ends in the shape of a bird's head, mounted on a Plexi b...

A Dogon figure Mali, standing on a round base, the angular, bent legs rising to a narrow torso with protruding navel, with two sets of arms, one a...

A Dogon wood ladle Mali, the round wood scoop with a hand terminating the long, bent handle. lg. 18 in. For further information on this lot plea...

A Dogon wood door lock Mali, mounted on a plexiglass stand. ht. 9 1/2 in. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For fu...

A male Bamana antelope headdress Ci Wara The neck carved in two columns and separated in the middle, the back with a column with a flange-like man...

A female Bamana antelope headdress Ci Wara The curving neck supporting the head with tall, cylindrical horns with linear incision spiraling up alo...

A Bamana antelope headdress Ci Wara Of characteristic stylized form, the body with openwork design with ridged back, leading to the oversized head...

A large wooden African horn Senufo, hollowed-out cylindrical wood horn, with square, cutout mouthpiece, and projecting handle at one end, mounted ...

An Ivory Coast wood spatula The flat blade with a complex handle terminating in a flat head, with incised human and animal imagery, on a Plexiglas...

A large Baule male figure Standing with bent legs on a round base, the elongated arms holding the lower belly, below the elongated torso, with a c...

A Baule female figure Standing on a round base, with heavy, slightly bent muscular legs supporting a rounded torso, the lengthy arms to the lower ...

A Baule wood drum beater Ivory Coast, the long handle with a lug at one end, the beater with the carved leopard carrying a cub in its mouth, with ...

A Fang pipe Gabon, the long, curving metal stem, with two flaring metal bowls set into the double wood bowl, terminating in an upright carved wood...

A Mende Bundu helmet mask Sierra Leone, from the Sante society, a single fat roll on the neck above a pierced rim support the compressed face with...

A stone Kissi Nomoli figure Sierra Leone, the squatting figure with legs drawn up and upright arms with hands around the mouth, mounted on a custo...

An Asanti female fertility figure, (Akuaba) Ghana, the round column torso, with abbreviated arms, elongated neck with a bead necklace leading to a...

A large Ashanti wood comb Ghana, the long tines with a square panel above decorated with incised designs, with three heads above, each with cylind...

An Ashanti female fertility figure, (Akuaba) Ghana, rising from a tapering columnar torso with small protruding breasts, with abbreviated, outstre...

An Ashanti stool Ghana, of conventional form with bowed and waisted rectangular platform, raised on pieced round column and four narrow legs, moun...

Three Akuba Asante Dolls Ghana, each with an elongated, cylindrical body with pointed breasts, a round neck below a flaring flat head, two round a...

A Bobo mask Burkina Faso, the bird mask hollowed out and pierced around the rim, with long square mouth open, large round eyes, with high headdres...

A Bobo mask Burkina Faso, the bird mask with long open beak, large round eyes, with a long thin arched crest from the crown, with checkered patter...

A Mossi mask Burkina Faso, the hollowed-out oval mask pierced around the rim for attachments, with cutout round eyes, with raised ridge between, w...

A Lobi male figure Standing on thick, abbreviated legs, the elongated arms at the sides, with triangular breasts, the face with protruding mouth a...

Pair of Yoruba dance panels Nigeria, a foliate motif, bamboo covered with thin copper, decorated with complex geometric patterns done in repousse,...

A Yoruba Gelede helmet mask Nigeria, of deeply hollowed form and pierced twice for attachment, the single-crested coiffure accented with long groo...

A male Yoruba Ibeji figure Nigeria, standing on a circular base, with raised feet, legs set apart with the arms detached from the body, and hands ...

A Yoruba wood tray Nigeria, a divination tray decorated with a wide raised band of abstract carving, with a central head with elaborate coiffure a...

A pair of twin male Ibeji figures Yoruba, Nigeria, each standing on a circular base, with raised feet, legs set apart with the arms detached from ...

A pair of male and female iron Yoruba twins The kneeling figures each with hands on their stomach, with pronounced facial features and high coiffu...

Three Yoruba Ibeji dolls Nigeria, two males and a female doll, the smallest with cut off legs and a later base. ht. 10 3/4, 10 and 7 3/4 in. For...

A pair of Yoruba Ibeji dolls Nigeria, the male and female dolls each standing on a round base, with large feet, hands at sides, with protruding op...

Two female Yoruba Ibeji dolls Standing on a circular base, hands on the hips, the elongated head with raised plaited coiffure, with beads around n...

An Ibo Mmwo helmet mask Nigeria, the hollowed-out form, with open mouth, naturalistic nose, and cutout eyes, below the deeply cut and incised coif...

An Ibo Maiden Spirit helmet mask Agbogho Mmuo Nigeria, the hollowed-out helmet form pierced around the rim for attachment of a cloth head covering...

An Ibo face mask Nigeria, hollowed out and pierced around the rim for attachments, the open mouth with protruding lips, with pierced slit eyes bel...

A Cameroon buffalo horn vessel The curved horn with complex relief carving below the rim, mounted on a metal stand, (minor loss). lg. 9 3/4 in. ...

A Cameroon clay bowl The deep bowl with a frieze of abstract figures below the rim, with a protruding handle on one side, with a double scroll mot...