An old Humboldt Bay canoe prow.

An old Humboldt Bay canoe prow.

An Asmat drum with abstract incised and relief carving on the body; the handle with openwork carving in the form of a sequence of three birds and curvilinear forms possibly representing snakes.

Sepik carved iron wood spear point with bird figure and remnant lime inlay.

A Sepik iron wood staff, the finial with two male figures and the shaft with finely carved abstract designs.

A large, heavy old Dani adze with stone blade and wooden handle.

A Central Asmat bisj pole.

New Guinea wooden adze with cane binding and iron blade.

Pre Columbian pottery shallow vessel with painted designs in red, black and white pigments.

Egyptian painted limestone ithyphallic figure portrayed naked and seated on his groin, holding his phallus, which extends to the top of his head.

Egyptian serpentine eroticon depicting a seated figure gazing forwards, both hands supporting a cylindrical vessel that rests on his oversized, erect phallus.

A limestone canopic jar lid in the form of Imsety, one of the four sons of Horus and guardian of the liver.

A large Chinese finely carved grey/black lime-stone head of Buddha.

A Bactrian stone aniconic idol. Highly polished surface, flaring at each end with an incised line running around the top, sides and base.

A Bactrian stone aniconic idol. Highly polished surface, flaring at each end with an incised line running around the top, sides and base.

A Bactrian stone aniconic idol. Highly polished surface, flaring at each end with an incised line running along the top and base extending around the edges.