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Papua New Guinea Decorated Bilum String Bag

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Papua New Guinea Decorated Bilum String Bag: Papua New Guinea Decorated Bilum String Bag. Approximately 16 inches x 12 inches.

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20th C. Papua New Guinea Bilum Bag & Cassowary Feathers: **Originally Listed At $300** Oceania, Papua New Guinea, upper Sepik River, Telefol region, Mountain Ok people, ca. mid-20th century CE. A wonderful example of a prestigious type of bilum (string bag)

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Papua New Guinea Stone Carving, Echidna: Small tribal stone carving of an echidna (spiny anteater,) as found; in an old Papua New Guinea bilum bag of woven natural fiber, the bag inside a wooden box. Accompanying handwritten note says: "Echi

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19th C. Papua New Guinea Wood Figure w/ Fiber Pouch: Papua New Guinea, Lower Sepik River, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A fabulous stylized ancestor figure that fits snugly into a fiber and shell bilum bag. The guardian has an anthropomorphic

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Amulet mask - Sepik -: Origin: Papua New Guinea Date: 2nd half 20th century Materials: Wood Size: 24 cm Sepik River Amulet Mask, New Guinea. Amulet masks are kept in individual’s houses or carried in one’s bilum bag on

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Early 20th C. Papua New Guinea Decorated Food Hook: Papua New Guinea, Middle Sepik River, early 20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden "food hook" in the form of an abstract mask-like visage with bold features, with a petite stylized figure, who intrigu

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Antique New Guinea Bilum Medicine Bag: A charming antique woven grass medicine bag adorned with beads, shells and feathers and showing handling and apparent traditional field use. The Bag measures 9 x 18 inches, not counting the strap. Pro

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Three Bamboo Hunting Spears, Papua New Guinea: Three Bamboo Hunting Spears, Papua New Guinea. Some decorated with painted or incised designs. Sizes: 1) 58.5'' x .5'' (149 x 1 cm); 2) 63.25'' x .5'' (161 x 1 cm); 3) 59.75'' x .5'' (152 x 1 cm). Not

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Papua New Guinea Abelam polychrome decorated tall male: Papua New Guinea Abelam polychrome decorated tall male figure, 42"h, Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del Rey, California

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Papua New Guinea Carved and Polychrome Decorated Asmat: Papua New Guinea Carved and Polychrome Decorated Asmat Shield55" in length

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PAPUA NEW GUINEA CARVED AND POLYCHROME DECORATED WOODEN ASMAT SHIELD. - H: 74".: PAPUA NEW GUINEA CARVED AND POLYCHROME DECORATED WOODEN ASMAT SHIELD. Light orange, beige and black symbolic decoration. - H: 74".

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Papua New Guinea Hornbill Beak Shell Decorated: 7 1/2" long, great patina!

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Highlands, Papua New Guinea, shield: Highlands, Papua New Guinea, shield, the front decorated with old red pigment, accented with abstract geometric designs, signs of age and use, 53.5"h

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A Rare Suki Woven Bag Collected by George Craig in 1966: A Suki carrying bag, Suki people, middle fly river western province, Papua New Guinea.Of classical form the bags with geometric designs woven into the basic shape in raised fiber and carefully pigment

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A Rare Suki Carrying Bay Field Collected 1966: A Suki carrying bag, Suki people, Middle Fly River, Western Province, Papua New Guinea.Of classical form the bags with geometric designs woven into the basic shape in raised fiber and carefully pigmen

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A Fine Old Suki Carrying Bag: A Suki carrying bag, Suki people, middle fly river western province, Papua New Guinea.Of classical form the bags with geometric designs woven into the basic shape in raised fiber and carefully pigment

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Papua New Guinea Decorated Bilum String Bag

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Papua New Guinea Decorated Bilum String Bag. Approximately 16 inches x 12 inches.

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Name: Papua New Guinea Decorated Bilum String Bag
SKU: 151506287
Price: 175 USD
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