Decoy duck, Pacific Islands tapa cloth, Egyptian alabaster vase, figural statue, Spanish bowling ball, and a Jane Pinkney watercolour of a mouse, (6 items), the statue 34 cm high
William mariner - an account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean. With an original Grammar and vocabulary of their language. London: printed for the author, and Sold by John Murray, Albemarle-street. 1817. Vol I, II. Some…
Western Pacific wooden tapa cloth beater. Early square-headed beater alternately, patterned to all sides, with shaped grip. Age and use patina. Length 30 cm
A 20th century Pacific Islands (Tonga) carved wooden stool, the curved rectangular top supported on cradle form legs with plain flared feet, carved from the one piece. Length 49 cm, height 11 cm.
An early Micronesian navigational map, known as stick Charts which were used to navigate the Pacific Islands by canoe. Made from straight and bent pieces of coconut fronds midribs and tied with sennit coconut fibre string, small Cowrie shells are tied in…
A Tortoise Shell Hair Comb, South Pacific (circa 1900), tortoise shell, 23.7 cm long. Provenance: LJ5538 Weekly Sale, Leonard Joels, Melbourne, 4 August 2011, lot 3024
A large early stone axe from the Pacific Region, 19th century or earlier; exact origin unknown, very similar to Maori stone axes made of a hard grey green stone. 26.5 cm