A Fine Collection of Antique Dayak Charms Borneo Island Indonesia 19th to Early 20th Century

A Fine Collection of Antique Dayak Charms Borneo Island Indonesia 19th to Early 20th Century (Height 6cm to 8cm)

Dayak Amulet Figures & Charms were always fascinating to me, the first ones I saw were in Bali 40 years ago when the better antique dealers always had a few genuine old Dayak Amulets for sale.

My collection of Dayak Amulets was put together over four decades by buying the best examples that I could find both in Indonesia & from art dealers & collectors around the world.

Small carvings in the form of human figures, anthropomorphic creatures and animals in contorted positions are found throughout the numerous Dayak communities of Borneo.

They are made by a shamanic priest, these talismanic charms are kept within the family apartments of communal longhouses, attached to baby carriers and cribs, or worn by individuals on necklaces and belts.

In an environment where great dangers are posed by both the natural and supernatural world, amulets provide the living with protection against harm, illness and other calamities. While some were intended to scare off evil forces, others alluded to concepts and legends associated with the Dayak universe.

These Dayak Amulet were also used in medicinal preparations where you can see on the amulets small parts of the body are shaved or carved off to add to botanical preparations that treat all kinds of illness.

Provenance: The Todd Barlin Collection of Oceanic and Asian Art.

See my new EXHIBITIONS GALLERY  showing the Museums and Art Galleries Exhibitions that I provided artworks for over the past 40 years. There is the link to the article about my artworks published in the prestigious Louvre Magazine in 1996

I have artwork for Museums and art Galleries but also for collectors at every stage of their collecting. I want to encourage people to explore the fine art of New Guinea & West Papua and the Pacific Islands and to be able to see and touch the artworks in a relaxed and friendly manner in my Sydney Gallery. I would like to invite you to visit my gallery and see the artworks in person and also look at my website www.oceanicartsaustralia.com where there are many Galleries & Sub Galleries to explore.

My Gallery of nearly 40 years is the last physical gallery in Sydney that specializes in New Guinea and Oceanic Art.  Sydney is very close to New Guinea & the Pacific Islands where all of these amazing artworks came from, Australia’s closest neighbours.

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A Superb Paiwan/ Rukai Tribe Chiefly Grain Storage Container from Taiwan Formosa Island Late 19th to early 20th Century

A Superb Paiwan/Rukai Tribe Chiefly Grain Storage Container called Puludru from Taiwan Formosa Island Late 19th to early 20th Century 

This superbly carved Grain Storage Container called Puludru was used solely by chiefly households for safe storage of their grain. This large Grain Storage Container is carved from a single piece of hardwood, the designs are carved in very high relief which makes the figures look three-dimensional, and there is an encrusted patina from long use over generations.

The Paiwan or Rukai people’s grain barrels are large containers used in all households to store unprocessed food such as millet, sweet potatoes, and taro. Most of these large grain barrels are made by simply hollowing out a solid tree trunk into a cylindrical shape, most household items are not decorated with carvings, but only those used solely by Chiefs or nobles would be carved with patterns such as ancestor figures & snakes like this fine example.

The main crops of the Paiwan people in the early days were millet, taro, sweet potato, peanut, and tree beans, later, due to frequent contact with the Han people, they also began to grow rice.

The main iconography on this container is a powerful figure of a Chief or Deified Ancestor along with the important Two Hundred-Pacer Snakes which are above him and on his chest. The Hundred-Pacer Snakes (Agkistrodon acutus) which is one of the most important characters in Paiwan mythology, and is generally considered to be the pro-creator of the Chiefs and nobles.

The legs of the Storage Container are carved heads which the Chiefs are standing on this relates to the ancient practice of headhunting. The Paiwan is one of the most well-known of the several indigenous peoples living in the mountainous interior of Taiwan. Paiwan society is hierarchical, divided into high nobles, minor nobility, and commoners. In former times, only the high nobility was entitled to create or commission certain forms of human images, which portrayed important ancestors (tsmas). The ancestors, whose supernatural influence was controlled by the nobility, had the power to either help or harm the community, depending on whether their spirits received proper respect through ritual observances and offerings. The houses of Paiwan nobles were both the physical and artistic centres of ancestral power and imagery.  The remains of noble ancestors were buried within the houses of their descendants, and their images adorned the doorways, house posts, and other architectural elements and ritual objects like this fine old Grain Storage Container

Provenance: Old Collection  Taiwan, The Todd Barlin Collection of Oceanic and Asian Art.

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I have artwork for Museums and art Galleries but also for collectors at every stage of their collecting. I want to encourage people to explore the fine art of New Guinea & West Papua and the Pacific Islands and to be able to see and touch the artworks in a relaxed and friendly manner in my Sydney Gallery. I would like to invite you to visit my gallery and see the artworks in person and also look at my website www.oceanicartsaustralia.com where there are many Galleries & Sub Galleries to explore.

My Gallery of nearly 40 years is the last physical gallery in Sydney that specializes in New Guinea and Oceanic Art.  Sydney is very close to New Guinea & the Pacific Islands where all of these amazing artworks came from, Australia’s closest neighbours.

If you have a similar “object” for sale please contact me for the best price and honest advice by a Government approved valuer 

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A Fine Old New Guinea Gope Spirit Board Era River Area Papuan Gulf Papua New Guinea

A Fine Old New Guinea Gope Spirit Board from the Era River Area Papuan Gulf  Province Papua New Guinea

This finely carved old Gope Board is from the Era People in the Wapo Creek Area in the Papuan Gulf on the South Coast of Papua New Guinea.

Gope also called “Spirit Boards” are the embodiment of powerful spirits that represent each clan, no two Gope boards are the same, Gope Boards such as this one represent and serve as a dwelling place for an individual imunu spirit. In the past, the primary focus of religious and artistic life in the region was on powerful spirits (imunu). Each imunu typically was associated with a specific location in the landscape, rivers, or sea, and was linked to the specific clan within whose territory it dwelt.

Gope Boards were sometimes made from the sides of old canoes which provide a ready-made flat shape to carve the Gope boards from.
This Gope Board shows the genius of the artist, he was not constrained by the size or the shape of the wood, the powerful face and abstract body both work to the great visual effect.

In pre-European contact times, the Papuan Gulf people made huge ceremonial houses with peaked roofs called Ravi, this is where the Gope Spirit Boards and other types of ceremonial objects were kept safe & secret from the uninitiated. Gope boards were often kept on shrines that had boars’ skulls and human skulls from headhunting placed around them on racks.

The Papuan Gulf people had complex ceremonial cycles that took sometimes a decade to complete. There are many distinct art styles in the Papuan Gulf stretching from the Elema area in the east to the Bamu area in the west and they are also neighbors of the Gogodala & Marind Anim people who live on both sides of the border that splits the island between Papua New Guinea and West Papua Indonesia.

Provenance: Old Collection & The Todd Barlin Collection of Oceanic & Papua New Guinea Art

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I have artwork for Museums and art Galleries but also for collectors at every stage of their collecting. I want to encourage people to explore the fine art of New Guinea & West Papua and the Pacific Islands and to be able to see and touch the artworks in a relaxed and friendly manner in my Sydney Gallery. I would like to invite you to visit my gallery and see the artworks in person and also look at my website www.oceanicartsaustralia.com where there are many Galleries & Sub Galleries to explore.

My Gallery of nearly 40 years is the last physical gallery in Sydney that specializes in New Guinea and Oceanic Art.  Sydney is very close to New Guinea & the Pacific Islands where all of these amazing artworks came from, Australia’s closest neighbours.

If you have a similar “object” for sale please contact me for the best price and honest advice by a Government approved valuer 

To see many more rare items and the finest masterpieces, please make an appointment with us to visit the gallery.

A Superb Old Kanak Bird Head Club New Caledonia 19th Century

A Superb Old Kanak Bird Head Club New Caledonia 19th Century (Height 77cm)

The distinctively shaped Bird Head Clubs of New Caledonia were prestigious objects created for use by chiefs. The clubs symbolized wealth and high rank, and on some occasions served as gifts during ceremonial exchanges.

The Kanak Birds Head Clubs are called porowa ra maru in the Kanak Language. This very elegant Club is carved from a single piece of hardwood, the reddish-coloured hardwood gets a beautiful warm patina from generations of use & handling.

The heads of the clubs are carved in the form of stylized bird heads typically distinguished, as here, by long, pointed beaks. However, as none of New Caledonia’s indigenous birds has a similar beak, some scholars have suggested that the image instead represents the head of a sea turtle with its projecting, beaklike mouth.

This example is in very fine original condition and one of the best Kanak Clubs I have owned in 40 years.

Provenance: Old Collection Australia late 19th Century

The Todd Barlin Collection of Kanak & Oceanic Art

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I have artwork for Museums and art Galleries but also for collectors at every stage of their collecting. I want to encourage people to explore the fine art of New Guinea & West Papua and the Pacific Islands and to be able to see and touch the artworks in a relaxed and friendly manner in my Sydney Gallery. I would like to invite you to visit my gallery and see the artworks in person and also look at my website www.oceanicartsaustralia.com where there are many Galleries & Sub Galleries to explore.

My Gallery of nearly 40 years is the last physical gallery in Sydney that specializes in New Guinea and Oceanic Art.  Sydney is very close to New Guinea & the Pacific Islands where all of these amazing artworks came from, Australia’s closest neighbours.

If you have a similar “object” for sale please contact me for the best price and honest advice by a Government approved valuer 

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A Superb Old New Guinea Basket Hook Figure Middle Sepik River Area East Sepik Province Papua New Guinea

A Superb Old New Guinea Basket Hook Figure Sawos People Middle Sepik River Area East Sepik Province Papua New Guinea

This fine old used Basket Hook Figure is from the Sawos People in the Middle Sepik River area in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea.

Finely carved from a single piece of hardwood in the form of a standing female ancestor her feet resting on the top of the hook where once string bags were kept this area shows extensive long use. The surface of this figure has a nice aged patina from long use and handling over several generations

The ancestor figure expressive face with inset cowrie shell eyes, and her mouth is open showing her teeth, she holds her hands to her sides as if she is commanding your attention.

This sculpture comes from an ancient tradition of artworks made to connect people to their ancestors & the spirit world. Spirits or mythical beings associated with specific clans whose powers assure the success of agriculture, hunting, fishing, and other human endeavours.

Basket hooks were used to hang from the ceiling by a rope and string bags of food or other important objects that then could not be reached by rats or mice. A simple effective technology used by cultures around the world.

Sepik River artists made many beautiful unitarian art objects that were both functional and a way of honouring and making visible their ancestors in daily life.

Provenance: Old Collection Australia. The Todd Barlin Private Collection of Oceanic Art

See my new EXHIBITIONS GALLERY  showing the Museums and Art Galleries Exhibitions that I provided artworks for over the past 40 years. There is the link to the article about my artworks published in the prestigious Louvre Magazine in 1996

I have artwork for Museums and art Galleries but also for collectors at every stage of their collecting. I want to encourage people to explore the fine art of New Guinea & West Papua and the Pacific Islands and to be able to see and touch the artworks in a relaxed and friendly manner in my Sydney Gallery. I would like to invite you to visit my gallery and see the artworks in person and also look at my website www.oceanicartsaustralia.com where there are many Galleries & Sub Galleries to explore.

My Gallery of nearly 40 years is the last physical gallery in Sydney that specializes in New Guinea and Oceanic Art.  Sydney is very close to New Guinea & the Pacific Islands where all of these amazing artworks came from, Australia’s closest neighbours.

If you have a similar “object” for sale please contact me for the best price and honest advice by a Government approved valuer 

To see many more rare items and the finest masterpieces, please make an appointment with us to visit the gallery.

A Fine Old New Guinea Drum Huon Gulf area Morobe Province Papua New Guinea

A Fine Old New Guinea Drum from the Huon Gulf area Morobe Province Papua New Guinea Early 20th Century 

This fine carved old Drum I immediately liked, because of the surrealist look of two large protruding noses with pierced septums, this shows the ancestors seen & unseen in daily life, there is also likely a sense of humour from the artist.

Old drums like this fine example were family heirlooms often used over generations of family.  The lug handle and whole drum have a deep old shiny patina from long use and storage over decades.  The use of drums is important to all traditional ceremonies where drumming and singing relate stories of ancient ancestral beings who are invoked for protection & fertility.

The incised clan designs in the middle are finely carved and there is an overall balance to the Drum that makes it look like a fine Surrealist Sculpture. The original Drum Skin is still intact

Provenance: Old Collection Australia and The Todd Barlin Collection of New Guinea Oceanic Art

See my new EXHIBITIONS GALLERY  showing the Museums and Art Galleries Exhibitions that I provided artworks for over the past 40 years. There is the link to the article about my artworks published in the prestigious Louvre Magazine in 1996

I have artwork for Museums and art Galleries but also for collectors at every stage of their collecting. I want to encourage people to explore the fine art of New Guinea & West Papua and the Pacific Islands and to be able to see and touch the artworks in a relaxed and friendly manner in my Sydney Gallery. I would like to invite you to visit my gallery and see the artworks in person and also look at my website www.oceanicartsaustralia.com where there are many Galleries & Sub Galleries to explore.

My Gallery of nearly 40 years is the last physical gallery in Sydney that specializes in New Guinea and Oceanic Art.  Sydney is very close to New Guinea & the Pacific Islands where all of these amazing artworks came from, Australia’s closest neighbours.

If you have a similar “object” for sale please contact me for the best price and honest advice by a Government approved valuer 

To see many more rare items and the finest masterpieces, please make an appointment with us to visit the gallery.

A Fine Old New Guinea Massim Ancestor Figure from Milne Bay Province Eastern Papua New Guinea

A Fine Old Massim Ancestor Figure from Milne Bay Province Eastern Papua New Guinea This figure dates from the early 20th Century

This fine old Massim Ancestor Figure is from the Milne Bay Province in Eastern Papua New Guinea.

Finely carved in a naturalistic style, sitting with the elbows resting on the knees & the hands held under the chin, carved from a single piece of hardwood, the incised designs and facial features have remnants of highlighting with white lime.

The squatting figure is a style of figure that runs from all of the way from the indigenous people of Taiwan through SE Asian; Indonesia & the Philippines and throughout the Island of New Guinea.

The Massim are well known for other types of beautiful artworks like their intricately carved canoe ornaments and fantastically imaginative Lime Spatulas.  The Massim are also known for their great maritime skills and a complex trading system called the Kula Ring.  Kula is also the name for certain ornaments & wealth objects like stone axe blades and shell money. These valuables are traded purely to enhance one’s social status and prestige.

Carefully prescribed customs and traditions surround the ceremonies that accompany the exchanges which establish strong, ideally lifelong relationships between the exchange parties (karayta’u, “partners”). The act of giving is a display of the greatness of the giver, accompanied by shows of exaggerated modesty in which the value of what is given is actively played down. Such a partnership involves strong mutual obligations such as hospitality, protection, and assistance.  Kula valuables never remain for long in the hands of the recipients; rather, they must be passed on to other partners within a certain amount of time, thus constantly circling the trading circle, however, even temporary possession brings prestige and status. Important chiefs can have hundreds of partners while less significant participants may only have fewer than a dozen.

Provenance: Old Collection Australia and The Todd Barlin Collection of New Guinea Oceanic Art

 

See all of the links & photos in my new EXHIBITIONS GALLERY  showing the Museums & Art Gallery Exhibitions that I provided artworks for over the past 40 years. There is the link to the article about my artworks published in the prestigious Louvre Magazine in 1996

I have artwork for Museums and art Galleries but also for collectors at every stage of their collecting. I want to encourage people to explore the fine art of New Guinea & West Papua and the Pacific Islands and to be able to see and touch the artworks in a relaxed and friendly manner in my Sydney Gallery. I would like to invite you to visit my gallery and see the artworks in person and also look at my website www.oceanicartsaustralia.com where there are many Galleries & Sub Galleries to explore.

My Gallery of nearly 40 years is the last physical gallery in Sydney that specializes in New Guinea and Oceanic Art.  Sydney is very close to New Guinea & the Pacific Islands where all of these amazing artworks came from, Australia’s closest neighbors.

If you have a similar “object” for sale please contact me for the best price and honest advice by a Government approved valuer 

To see many more rare items and the finest masterpieces, please make an appointment with us to visit the gallery.

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A Fine Old New Guinea Massim Dance Paddle Trobriand Islands Milne Bay Province Papua New Guinea

A Fine Old New Guinea Massim Dance Paddle Trobriand Islands Milne Bay Province Papua New Guinea

This is a very fine, well-carved, and large Massim Dance Paddle called kai-diba. It consists of two semicircular elements connected by a short bar, which the dancer would have grasped and twirled. The dances in which the paddles were used accompanied ceremonies for harvests, launching a new canoe, and preparations for warfare.

These important dances and ceremonies using kai-diba, were photographed by the famous Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski who did his research resulted in the publication “The Argonauts of the Western Pacific”

The southeastern tip of Papua New Guinea and several off-shore archipelagos—the d’Entrecasteaux, Trobriand Islands, and Marshall Bennett Islands—collectively form the cultural area called Massim. Massim art is best known for the ornamental low-relief carving that is applied to lime spatulas, shields, clubs, Neckrests, and objects for display and ceremonial use, such as canoe prows and dance paddles. Scroll designs are characteristic, as are comma-shaped motifs that suggest the head of a bird with a long down-curving beak.

You can see them being used in these old historic photos, this is important to understand the cultural context of the Dance Paddles’ traditional use.  The photo of the dancers is very beautiful and would be very impressive with the music & singing accompanying the Dancers

The shape of these Dance Paddles is unique in New Guinea art & it is one of the most beautiful art objects that the Massim people made & used.

Provenance: Old Collection Australia and The Todd Barlin Collection of New Guinea Oceanic Art

 

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I have artwork for Museums and art Galleries but also for collectors at every stage of their collecting. I want to encourage people to explore the fine art of New Guinea & West Papua and the Pacific Islands and to be able to see and touch the artworks in a relaxed and friendly manner in my Sydney Gallery. I would like to invite you to visit my gallery and see the artworks in person and also look at my website www.oceanicartsaustralia.com where there are many Galleries & Sub Galleries to explore.

My Gallery of nearly 40 years is the last physical gallery in Sydney that specializes in New Guinea and Oceanic Art.  Sydney is very close to New Guinea & the Pacific Islands where all of these amazing artworks came from, Australia’s closest neighbours.

 

If you have a similar “object” for sale please contact me for the best price and honest advice by a Government approved valuer 

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Superb Old New Guinea Incised Bamboo Lime Containers & Lime Spatulas, Keram River East Sepik Province Papua New Guinea

Two Superb Old New Guinea Incised Bamboo Lime Containers & Lime Spatulas from the Keram River area East Sepik Province Papua New Guinea

These finely incised large Bamboo Lime Containers are almost certainly from Kambot Village in the Kerem River area, incised over the entire surface with the mythological Ancestor Figures, Bird Women & Totemic Birds & Crocodiles.

These are not just for Ceremonial Lime & Betel Chewing but they are percussion rasps or musical instruments that make a unique sound. The Lime Spatula have incised rings along its length that when moving the Spatula in or out of the Bamboo make a percussion sound that is attributed to Ancestral Spirits.

Used in the Ceremonial House Tambaran which is restricted to initiated men, the Ceremonial Houses serve as the venue for nearly all important male religious rites – such as initiation rites for young boys – and at other times function as meeting houses or informal gathering places.

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Provenance: Collected in the 1960s

The Todd Barlin Collection of New Guinea Oceanic Art

 

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My Gallery of nearly 40 years is the last physical gallery in Sydney that specializes in New Guinea and Oceanic Art.  Sydney is very close to New Guinea & the Pacific Islands where all of these amazing artworks came from, Australia’s closest neighbours.

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A Fine Old Solomon Islands Dance Wand Makira Island San Cristóbal Eastern Solomon Islands

A Fine Old Solomon Islands Dance Wand Makira Island San Cristóbal Eastern Solomon Islands Dating from the early 20th Century 

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Dance Wands of various forms were used in Makira Island (also called San Cristobal) South Malaita Island and the small Islands of Santa Ana, Santa Catalina, Ugi, Ulawa

Ceremonial dances are performed often annually but also during the initiation of young men to adulthood.

This Dance Wand is in the form of a fish and was used in dances that enact Bonito Fishing, the curved form represents the prow of a bonito canoe and is used to imitate the movement of the canoe. This beautiful example has finely worked triangular-shaped shell inlays on both sides of the fish.

The Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific form a double chain, roughly 850 miles long, between New Britain and Vanuatu. The archipelago is remarkable for the richness of its decorative arts, which serve to adorn the human body and embellish ceremonial and utilitarian objects. Solomon Islanders are particularly remarkable for their sophisticated traditions of shell inlay, in which delicately carved sections of mother-of-pearl or white shell are inset into the surfaces of wood objects as shown in this very fine sculpture.

In the Southeast Solomon’s Sacred Canoe Houses held all of the most important ceremonial objects & ancestral remains in fish-shaped coffins.

Crispin Howarth at The National Gallery of Australia in his superb publication & exhibition at the NGA VARILAKU: Pacific Islands Art from the Solomon Islands 2011 states

” Large sculptures of bonito fish (Katsuwonus pelamis) hung from the rafters inside ceremonial canoe-houses along with carvings of sharks and people, and trophies of fish skeletons leftover from feasts. Bonito are scaleless, smooth-skinned fish copiously filled with red blood similar to that of people. So close are the connections between bonito and people that one part of the maraufu or malaohu initiation ceremonies included the flowing of blood from the bonito into the mouth of initiates.

Bonito Fish are very difficult to catch and could only be caught when their protective deities wished them to be caught; their seasonal arrival signified the start of initiation events and the sharing of traditional knowledge. Sculptures of Bonito and Frigate Birds were taken out of the canoe house and attached to decorated platforms erected on the shore, facing out to sea, for ceremonial performances where Dance Wands like this were used”

Provenance: The Todd Barlin Collection of Solomon Islands Oceanic Art 

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My Gallery of nearly 40 years is the last physical gallery in Sydney that specializes in New Guinea and Oceanic Art.  Sydney is very close to New Guinea & the Pacific Islands where all of these amazing artworks came from, Australia’s closest neighbours.

INQUIRE HERE

If you have a similar “object” for sale please contact me for the best price and honest advice by a Government approved valuer 

To see many more rare items and the finest masterpieces, please make an appointment with us to visit the gallery.

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