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Three Pre-Columbian Figures
Lot: 2Sold for: $115$100Three Pre-Columbian Figures, Jalisco, all three wearing various adornments, (old repairs),ht. 4 1/2 more ...
Twenty-two Cloth Applique Molas
Lot: 3Sold for: $230$200Twenty-two Cloth Applique Molas, Cuna Indians, San Blas Islands, Panama, many with elaborate pictorial images, one still attached to a more ...
Three Pre-Columbian Pottery Figures
Lot: 4Sold for: $201$175Three Pre-Columbian Pottery Figures, Jalisco, all three figures wearing various adornment, (damage, old repairs),ht. 5 1/2 more ...
Guatemalan Carved Wood Mask
Lot: 5Sold for: $288$250Guatemalan Carved Wood Mask, small mask depicting a woman, traces of pigment, ht. 7 more ...
Pre-Columbian Pottery Figure
Lot: 6Sold for: $230$200Pre-Columbian Pottery Figure, Jalisco, the female figure with outstretched arms wearing jewelry and a turban, ht. 8 more ...
Pre-Columbian Group
Lot: 6ASold for: $259$225Pre-Columbian Group, includes jade beads, pottery ocarinas, a Tlatilco Lady, and small copper knife more ...
Four Peruvian Polychrome Wood Keros
Lot: 6BSold for: $345$300Four Peruvian Polychrome Wood Keros, Inca, c. early Colonial period, (damage to more ...
Pre-Columbian Pottery Figure
Lot: 7Sold for: $316$275Pre-Columbian Pottery Figure, Nayarit, the seated warrior carrying a shield and a spear, and possibly wearing a helmet, traces of red paint, (cracks and old repairs),ht. 11 more ...
Pre-Columbian Silver Amulet
Lot: 8Sold for: $259$225Pre-Columbian Silver Amulet, probably Inca, Peru, the small cast llama wearing a feather headdress-like decoration, pierced for suspension, ht. 1 1/2 in. Provenance: Ex-collection Baron Von more ...
Pre-Columbian Polychrome Portrait Vessel
Lot: 9Sold for: $2,990$2,600Pre-Columbian Polychrome Portrait Vessel, Moche, depicting a man with long hair, ear spools, and cap, the colors are red, cream-color, and buff, (hairline crack),ht. 7 1/2 in. Provenance: more ...
Pre-Columbian Bridge Spout Vessel
Lot: 10Sold for: $345$300Pre-Columbian Bridge Spout Vessel, possibly Huari, the globular form with two stylized faces painted on a red-brown ground, (surface loss),ht. 7 more ...
Pre-Columbian Carved Wood Mummy Bundle Mask
Lot: 12Sold for: $230$200Pre-Columbian Carved Wood Mummy Bundle Mask, probably Chancay, Peru, 1100-1400 A.D., the square-like form with broad nose, straight mouth, indented almond-shaped eyes, and traces of red pigment, more ...
Pre-Columbian Carved Wooden Post
Lot: 13Sold for: $863$750Pre-Columbian Carved Wooden Post, Chimu, the rectangular tapered shaft with six square perforations surmounted with a standing warrior wearing a patterned tunic and similarly decorated headdress, more ...
African Beaded Sash
Lot: 17Sold for: $98$85African Beaded Sash, N'Debele, the two-piece sash with simple colored geometric devices on a white ground, section lg. 54 more ...
African Carved Wood Chiefs Staff
Lot: 18Sold for: $316$275African Carved Wood Chief's Staff, Baule, chip-carved with lobbed finial, three faces and elaborate geometric devices, the long animal hair drop with cloth wrapped handle, lg. of wood handle 14 more ...
African Carved Wood Helmet Mask
Lot: 19Sold for: $1,093$950African Carved Wood Helmet Mask, Mende, the hollowed cylindrical form with diminutive face, pierced slit eyes, large forehead, elaborate crested coiffure, and animal hair attachments, blackened more ...
African Carved Wood Helmet Mask
Lot: 21Sold for: $345$300African Carved Wood Helmet Mask, Mende, the hollowed helmet in the form of an elaborate coiffure surmounted with a long lobed neck and small head with elaborate coiffure, blackened patina, (minor more ...
African Carved Wood Helmet Mask
Lot: 22Sold for: $748$650African Carved Wood Helmet Mask, Mende, the hollow cylindrical form with diminutive face, pierced crescent eyes, large forehead, very elaborate coiffure terminating in a pyramidal finial, low rim more ...
African Carved Wood Mask
Lot: 23Sold for: $345$300African Carved Wood Mask, Kuba, the hollow oval form pierced around the rim for attachment, pierced mouth, square ears projecting out from pierced rectangular eyes, geometric scarification patterns, more ...
African Carved Wood Helmet Mask
Lot: 24Sold for: $259$225African Carved Wood Helmet Mask, Mende, the hollow cylindrical form with diminutive triangular face, pierced slit eyes, keloids on forehead, and elaborate coiffure, (insect damage),ht. 15 1/2 more ...
African Carved Wood Male Figure
Lot: 25Sold for: $288$250African Carved Wood Male Figure, Dogon, the fragmentary figure with narrow torso, long neck, and bearded narrow face, weathered patina, ht. 21 more ...
African Carved Wood Chair
Lot: 26Sold for: $115$100African Carved Wood Chair, Baule, the four-legged chair with curved back support and incised details, dark patina, ht. 26 more ...
African Carved Wood Male Figure
Lot: 28Sold for: $863$750African Carved Wood Male Figure, Baule, standing on a notched base, with arms extending to the abdomen, fine scarification patterns on the chest, back, neck, and face, the large head with long nose, more ...
African Carved Wood Male Figure
Lot: 29Sold for: $489$425African Carved Wood Male Figure, Baule, standing on a base, with muscular legs, arms extending to the abdomen, scarification patterns on neck and face, the face with pronounced facial features, the more ...
African Carved Wood Mask
Lot: 32Sold for: $460$400African Carved Wood Mask, possibly Benin, the hollow form with pierced bulbous eyes, narrow nose, small protruding mouth, traces of kaolin, (wood loss),ht. 10 more ...
Four African Carved Wood Items
Lot: 33Sold for: $173$150Four African Carved Wood Items, Yoruba, a Janus faced scepter with geometric devices on the handle, a crouching monkey, and two small eshu figures with cloth and shell decoration, lg. of scepter 21 more ...
African Carved Wood Helmet Mask
Lot: 34Sold for: $489$425African Carved Wood Helmet Mask, Pende, the hollowed form with carved ridge at bottom, stylized faceted nose, stylized ears and coiffure, arched eyebrows, pierced slit coffee bean eyes, and red, more ...
African Carved Wood Helmet Mask
Lot: 35Sold for: $115$100African Carved Wood Helmet Mask, Pende, the hollowed form with native repaired ridge at bottom, small protruding mouth, stylized rectangular nose, stylized ears, and coiffure, pierced coffee bean more ...
African Carved Wood Mask
Lot: 36Sold for: $230$200African Carved Wood Mask, Dan, c. mid-20th century, the hollowed oval form pierced around the rim for attachment, wearing an elaborate fiber headdress, with pierced mouth and metal teeth, delicate more ...
African Carved Wood Mask
Lot: 37Sold for: $460$400African Carved Wood Mask, Dan, hollowed oval form pierced at rim, with cloth attachment, wearing a cloth and trade bead headdress, the pierced protruding mouth with metal teeth, narrow pierced eyes, more ...