Lot 0105

19th C. Solomon Islands Wooden Chief's Staff

Similar Sale History

Sold

19th C. Solomon Islands Wooden Chief's Staff: Oceania / Polynesia / Melanesia, Solomon Islands, ca. 19th century CE. In beautiful condition, this is a hand-carved, dark wooden staff with a long, cylindrical form leading upward to a slightly wider

201819th C. Solomon Islands Wooden Chief's StaffSee Sold Price

Sold

Solomon Islands Chief’s Staff with Shell Inlay: Highly carved ceremonial or ‘Chief’s Staff’ from the Solomon Islands, South Pacific. Decorated with shell inlay and animal figures. Early to mid 20th century. With a knobbed handle and the shaft

2016Solomon Islands Chief’s Staff with Shell InlaySee Sold Price

Sold

Solomon Islands Chief's Staff: Solomon Islands chief's staff, ca. 1900. The staff features a carved figure with polychrome decoration. Dimensions: Height: 41 3/4 in x width (at handle): 1 5/8 in. SKU: 02021

2019Solomon Islands Chief's StaffSee Sold Price

Sold

Marquesas Islands Chief's Staff: Marquesas Islands carved wooden Chief's Staff, approx. 58" tall, Acquired by consigner in 1970

2023Marquesas Islands Chief's StaffSee Sold Price

Sold

Late 19th C. Solomon Islands Wood Dance Club: Oceania, Solomon Islands, Santa Cruz Islands, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A stunning hand-carved wooden dance club, known as a napa, presenting a lengthy form with a conical handle and a c

2021Late 19th C. Solomon Islands Wood Dance ClubSee Sold Price

Sold

20th C. Solomon Islands Malaita Wood Headhunter's Club: Oceania, Solomon Islands, Malaita province, ca. 20th century CE. A tall wooden club, painted black with incised details filled with white, clay-like pigment in a thin line just above the handle and at

201820th C. Solomon Islands Malaita Wood Headhunter's ClubSee Sold Price

Sold

20th C. Solomon Islands Wood War Club w/ Incised Motif: Oceania, Solomon Islands, ca. late early 20th century CE. A wooden paddle club of a simple yet elegant form, with a wide paddle end that is bisected by a raised rib and resolves in a pointed terminal.

202120th C. Solomon Islands Wood War Club w/ Incised MotifSee Sold Price

Sold

Huge 19th C. Solomon Islands Wood Paddle Club: **Originally Listed At $650** Oceania, Solomon Islands, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A wooden paddle club of a simple yet elegant form, with a wide paddle end that is bisected by a raised r

2023Huge 19th C. Solomon Islands Wood Paddle ClubSee Sold Price

Sold

20th C. Oceanic Rennell Islands Wooden Dance Club: Oceania, Solomon Islands, Rennell Island (Mugaba), ca. early 20th century CE. A fascinatingly-shaped dance club, hand-carved from dark wood and stained to be almost black in color. The upper portion i

201820th C. Oceanic Rennell Islands Wooden Dance ClubSee Sold Price

Sold

A Rare Solomon Islands Fisher Wife Sculpture: Antique carved wooden female effigy of a "Fisher wife" holding a staff with frigate bird and bonita fish symbols. Santa Cataline Island, Solomon islands. Carved from Tobago wood with inlaid shell eyes

2022A Rare Solomon Islands Fisher Wife SculptureSee Sold Price

Sold

20th C. Vietnamese Wood Staff - Writhing Dragon: **Originally Listed At $250** Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Con Son Island, ca. mid 20th century. A skillfully carved and incised wooden staff in the form of a writhing dragon, the staff of a generally tap

202120th C. Vietnamese Wood Staff - Writhing DragonSee Sold Price

Sold

202220th C. Vietnamese Wood Staff - Writhing DragonSee Sold Price

Sold

19th C. Solomon Islands Arm Bands / Ambegwaro (pr): **Originally Listed At $2750** Oceania, Solomon Islands, ca. 19th century CE. A pair of striking, beautifully preserved arm bands, known as "ambegwaro", made of many different colors of shell, formed

202119th C. Solomon Islands Arm Bands / Ambegwaro (pr)See Sold Price

Sold

19th C. Solomon Islands Shell Kapkap (Head / Pectoral): **Originally Listed At $1000** Oceania, Melanesia, Solomon Islands, ca. 19th to early 20th century CE. A beautiful example of a kapkap, a head or pectoral ornament made of a shell disc with intricate

202319th C. Solomon Islands Shell Kapkap (Head / Pectoral)See Sold Price

Sold

19th C. Solomon Islands Wood Adze Snail Shell Blade: Oceania, Melanesia, northern Solomon Islands, North Bougainville District, Takuu Atoll (also Mortlock Islands or Marqueen Islands), ca. 19th century CE. A finely preserved adze of an elegant and minim

202119th C. Solomon Islands Wood Adze Snail Shell BladeSee Sold Price

Sold

19th C. Solomon Islands Wood Adze w/ Snail Shell Blade: **Originally Listed At $1800** Oceania, Melanesia, northern Solomon Islands, North Bougainville District, Takuu Atoll (also Mortlock Islands or Marqueen Islands), ca. 19th century CE. A finely preserv

202219th C. Solomon Islands Wood Adze w/ Snail Shell BladeSee Sold Price

Recommended Items

19TH C. SHOUTEN ISLANDS CULTURE WOODEN BOWL: Papua, New Guinea, softwood, a shallow elongated oval canoe form with crocodile head handles, used for ceremonial serving of a pudding known as “Pollom and Yams", then presented as part of the t

Jun 29, 202419TH C. SHOUTEN ISLANDS CULTURE WOODEN BOWL

$300

Solomon Island Dance Sticks: Four carved wooden Solomon Islands Santa Ana carved fishing bobbers and dance sticks. Longest 27" L..

Jul 06, 2024Solomon Island Dance Sticks

$30

Solomon Island Carvings: Lot (4) kerosene wood Solomon Island mother of pearl wooden figures. Tallest 9 1/2" Ht..

Jul 06, 2024Solomon Island Carvings

$20

Armed Progressive: General Leonard Wood Hardcover: Armed Progressive: General Leonard Wood By Jack C Lane. Published by Presidio Press in 1978. The book is approx 6 1/4" x 1" x 9" and is in a good, vintage condition with some shelf-wear/ri

2 days LeftArmed Progressive: General Leonard Wood Hardcover

$25

19th C Shaker Yellow Mustard Painted Bucket Pail: Vintage from the 19th century Materials: Wood, Iron "19th C Shaker Yellow Mustard Painted Bucket Pail Wooden Shaker bucket / pail, paint decorated with original yellow mustard paint, tapered wood stav

3 days Left19th C Shaker Yellow Mustard Painted Bucket Pail

$280

19th C Shaker Small Painted Berry Bucket Pail - Bittersweet Paint Decorated: Vintage from the 19th century Materials: Wood, Iron "19th C Shaker Small Painted Berry Bucket Pail - Bittersweet Paint Decorated Wooden miniature Shaker berry bucket / pail, paint decorated with origi

3 days Left19th C Shaker Small Painted Berry Bucket Pail - Bittersweet Paint Decorated

$180

+SCULPTURE: David Kapetanopoulos (Massachusetts, 20th/21st C.), "My Brother and Me", carved wooden: +SCULPTURE: David Kapetanopoulos (Massachusetts, 20th/21st C.), "My Brother and Me", carved wooden panel, memorial to his brother who died in the Vietnam war, signed right center in sculpture, titled

7 days Left+SCULPTURE: David Kapetanopoulos (Massachusetts, 20th/21st C.), "My Brother and Me", carved wooden

$175

UNIDENTIFIED NUU-CHAH-NULTH ARTIST, NORTHWEST COAST, Wrangell Island Raven Pole Model Totem, c. 1910: UNIDENTIFIED NUU-CHAH-NULTH ARTIST Wrangell Island Raven Pole Model Totem, c. 1910 cedar wood and pigment, 28 x 5.75 x 5.5 in (71.1 x 14.6 x 14 cm) unsigned. Provenance A Vancouver Collection. This mo

7 days LeftUNIDENTIFIED NUU-CHAH-NULTH ARTIST, NORTHWEST COAST, Wrangell Island Raven Pole Model Totem, c. 1910

CA$4,400

ASIAN: Shibayama elephant pair and a standing figure with staff and ruyi, Chinese, late 19th/ 20th: ASIAN: Shibayama elephant pair and a standing figure with staff and ruyi, Chinese, late 19th/ 20th C. details include: elephants carved with ornate headdress and saddle, draped in swaths of beads, eac

7 days LeftASIAN: Shibayama elephant pair and a standing figure with staff and ruyi, Chinese, late 19th/ 20th

$75

+SCULPTURE: David Kapetanopoulos (Massachusetts, 20th/21st C.), "Adam and Eve birth", late 1970's,: +SCULPTURE: David Kapetanopoulos (Massachusetts, 20th/21st C.), "Adam and Eve birth", late 1970's, carved wooden sculpture of reclining man and women with infant, couple facing each other, walnut wood

7 days Left+SCULPTURE: David Kapetanopoulos (Massachusetts, 20th/21st C.), "Adam and Eve birth", late 1970's,

$150

1940's Jiminy Cricket Disney Wooden Ideal Toy Co. Jointed Doll: 8 1/2" tall. Felt Collar and Hat Brim and Fabric Tie. White Tie. Label on Body says" Jiminy Cricket DES & C By Walt Disney Made By Ideal Novelty & Toy Co. Long Island City. The condition on the figure

Jun 26, 20241940's Jiminy Cricket Disney Wooden Ideal Toy Co. Jointed Doll

$50

1834 Issued Seneca War Chief Red Jacket, Wearing His George Washington Silver Indian Peace Medal: Indian Peace Medals "RED JACKET. Seneca War Chief." Wearing His George Washington Engraved Silver Indian Peace Medal by Biddle 1834 Issued First Edition, Engraved Hand-Colored Lithograph of "RED JACKE

5 days Left1834 Issued Seneca War Chief Red Jacket, Wearing His George Washington Silver Indian Peace Medal

$1,000

Polly Veazie Needlework Sampler Mass. c.1805: Polly Veazie worked her neat and tidy needlework sampler c. 1805, when she was about 13 years old. She chose a dark, almost green linen (giving the sampler the appearance of being a linsey-woolsey sam

4 days LeftPolly Veazie Needlework Sampler Mass. c.1805

$50

Late 20th C. Wooden Game Table: Late 20th C. Wooden Game Table. In the style of Maitland smith. Measures approx. - 30 1/4" high x 34" long x 23 1/2" deep. Have a similar item to sell? Contact us at info@marketauctio

2 days LeftLate 20th C. Wooden Game Table

$100

ASIAN: Small lacquered cabinet, Japanese, late 19th/ early 20th C., wooden chest with hand-painted: ASIAN: Small lacquered cabinet, Japanese, late 19th/ early 20th C., wooden chest with hand-painted bird and branch vignettes on black ground, some panels with Oriental landscapes, decoration is done i

7 days LeftASIAN: Small lacquered cabinet, Japanese, late 19th/ early 20th C., wooden chest with hand-painted

$75

19th C. Wooden Hand Carved Springerle Cookie Board Press Stamp: Vintage from the 1910s Materials: Wood "19th Century Wooden Hand Carved Springerle Cookie Board Press Stamp Offering a wooden block mold with a hand carved springerle mold press with embossed recessed

4 days Left19th C. Wooden Hand Carved Springerle Cookie Board Press Stamp

$50

19th C. Solomon Islands Wooden Chief's Staff

Item Details

Description

**Originally Listed At $500**

Oceania / Polynesia / Melanesia, Solomon Islands, ca. 19th century CE. In beautiful condition, this is a hand-carved, dark wooden staff with a long, cylindrical form leading upward to a slightly wider, openwork upper section capped by a rounded ball. The openwork section has inlaid shell - perhaps abalone - with a creamy irisdescent color in x-shaped and triangular patterns forming a border around it and separating its open sections. This type of staff is known as a Wari Hau. Size: 1.8" W x 34" H (4.6 cm x 86.4 cm); 34.4" H (87.4 cm) on included custom stand.

Solomon Islanders, who live in a long archipelago from New Britain to Vanuatu, are known for their skill with inlaying shell into their gorgeous decorative arts. Wari hau were made for men who had been initiated into the society; they wore them hanging on their back during ceremonies.

See a similar item at the Metropolitan Museum (1999.47.48).

Provenance: private Illinois, USA collection

All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.

A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids.

We ship worldwide to most countries and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience.

#125841

Condition

Very light surface scratching/chips from age and handling. Dark, smooth patina from same. Very nice condition but clearly aged.

Buyer's Premium

24.5%

19th C. Solomon Islands Wooden Chief's Staff

Name: 19th C. Solomon Islands Wooden Chief's Staff
SKU: 60617011
Price: 900 USD
Availability: InStock

Estimate $900 - $1,400

See Sold Price

Starting Price $450

Sell a Similar Item

2 bidders are watching this item.

Get approved to bid.

Shipping & Pickup Options

Item located in Louisville, CO, us

See Policy for Shipping

Payment

Artemis Gallery

TOP RATED

Louisville, CO, United States

1,319 Reviews

7,966 Followers