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Four Pre-Columbian Pottery Vessels
Lot: 1Sold for: $277$225Four Pre-Columbian Pottery Vessels, two abstract bird vessels from Peru, and two bowls from Costa Rica, (clay loss, repairs), lg. to 9 in. more ...
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Nayarit Female Pottery Figure
Lot: 2Sold for: $2,829$2,300Nayarit Female Pottery Figure, c. 250 B.C.-250 A.D., with painted skirt, multiple ear ornaments and animal head nose ornament, (repairs, loss), ht. 15 3/4 in. more ...
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Four Pre-Columbian Painted Pottery Bowls
Lot: 3Sold for: $400$325Four Pre-Columbian Painted Pottery Bowls, Central America, three tripod forms and one pedestal form, various decoration on a red background, (minor damage), largest ht. 6 1/4, dia. 12 1/4 in. more ...
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Three Ecuadorian Pre-Columbian Musical Instruments
Lot: 4Sold for: $308$250Three Ecuadorian Pre-Columbian Musical Instruments, a pottery human effigy whistle with traces of blue and red pigment, and two side-blown ocarinas with human and avian features and incised more ...
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Three Pre-Columbian Pottery Ocarinas
Lot: 5Sold for: $154$125Three Pre-Columbian Pottery Ocarinas, Costa Rica, one representing a deity, one possibly a small human, and a harpy eagle, (minor damage), ht. to 3 1/2 in. more ...
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Three Pre-Columbian Pottery Ocarinas
Lot: 6Sold for: $215$175Three Pre-Columbian Pottery Ocarinas, Costa Rica, one showing a monkey holding a coconut (?), (one with repair), ht. to 3 1/2 in. more ...
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Four Pre-Columbian Pottery Musical Instruments
Lot: 7Sold for: $369$300Four Pre-Columbian Pottery Musical Instruments, two polychrome ocarinas from Costa Rica, one in the form of a turtle, and two rattles, (minor damage), ht. to 5 1/2 in. more ...
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Three Indonesian Items
Lot: 8Sold for: $461$375Three Indonesian Items, a Nias carved wood ancestor figure with hands to the abdomen, (cracked), and two decorated bamboo cases, the smaller with a metal awl attached to the lid, ht. to 14 in. more ...
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Seven Ethnic Wood Carvings
Lot: 9Sold for: $461$375Seven Ethnic Wood Carvings, includes five tourist items from Africa and Indonesia, and two older African items: a Senufo female figure and a Dogon figure, ht. of Dogon figure 11 in. more ...
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Five Balinese Wood Carvings
Lot: 10Sold for: $185$150Five Balinese Wood Carvings, two stylized humans, a large mythological figure with separately carved wings, a polychrome bird, and a polychrome mask, (some damage to large figure), ht. to 32 in. more ...
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Two Architectural Wood Carvings
Lot: 11Sold for: $338$275Two Architectural Wood Carvings, India, both with elaborately detailed deities, largest ht. 25 1/2, wd. 10 1/2 in. more ...
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Ifugao Carved Wood Spoon
Lot: 12UnsoldIfugao Carved Wood Spoon, Philippines, (wood loss), ht. 7 3/4 in. more ...
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Three Melanesian Carved Wood Items
Lot: 13Sold for: $185$150Three Melanesian Carved Wood Items, two elaborate Betel mortar and pestle sets, and an elaborate lime spatula, all carved from hardwood, lg. of spatula 18 in. Provenance: Collected in the more ...
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Two Massim Carved and Painted Wood Dance Paddles
Lot: 14Sold for: $738$600Two Massim Carved and Painted Wood Dance Paddles, lg. to 34 in. Provenance: Collected in the 1960s. more ...
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Solomon Island Carved Wood Club
Lot: 15Sold for: $431$350Solomon Island Carved Wood Club, the tapered form with dark patina, lg. 28 in. Provenance: Leo and Lillian Fortess collection. more ...
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Admiralty Islands Obsidian Dagger
Lot: 16Sold for: $246$200Admiralty Islands Obsidian Dagger, with painted and incised decorated nut paste handle, lg. 12 in. more ...
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Two Contemporary Maori Carved Wood Implements
Lot: 17Sold for: $185$150Two Contemporary Maori Carved Wood Implements, a hand club and an adze, both decorated with relief carved stylized figures, curvilinear designs, and shell inlays, lg. to 16 1/4 in. more ...
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Two South Pacific Fishhooks
Lot: 18Sold for: $461$375Two South Pacific Fishhooks, both with bone hooks, one with abalone inlay, the second a contemporary Maori fishhook, lg. to 7 in. more ...
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Five Ethnographic Items
Lot: 19Sold for: $123$100Five Ethnographic Items, three stone carvings depicting stylized humans, and two short wood clubs with fiber-wrapped grips, club lg. to 16 1/2, stone figure ht. to 5 1/2 in. more ...
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Two Tongan Carved Wood Items
Lot: 20Sold for: $492$400Two Tongan Carved Wood Items, a Kava bowl with inlaid decoration at the rim, and a short, heavy club with incised decoration, bowl ht. 4, dia. 12 1/4; club lg. 21 in. more ...
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Three New Guinea Carved Wood Food Hooks
Lot: 21Sold for: $277$225Three New Guinea Carved Wood Food Hooks, Sepik River, two human forms and one with stylized animals, two with traces of pigment, lg. to 32 in. Provenance: Collected in the 1960s. more ...
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New Guinea Carved Wood Figure
Lot: 22Sold for: $154$125New Guinea Carved Wood Figure, a stylized female with darkened surface, (repairs), ht. 20 1/4 in. more ...
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Two New Guinea Items
Lot: 23Sold for: $123$100Two New Guinea Items, a sacred flute with carved head flute stopper and rattan bindings, and a Korewori hook figure with blackened surface, both items probably made for the market, ht. to 62 1/2 more ...
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New Guinea Carved Wood Mask
Lot: 24Sold for: $185$150New Guinea Carved Wood Mask, Sepik River, Kanduanum Village, stylized human face with cowrie shell eyes and traces of pigment, ht. 19 1/2 in. Provenance: Collected in 1969. more ...
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Two New Guinea Polychrome Carved Wood Masks
Lot: 25Sold for: $615$500Two New Guinea Polychrome Carved Wood Masks, Sepik River area, the larger with Nassa shell inlay from Angoram Village, the other from Kanduanum Village, collected in the 1960s, ht. to 31 in. more ...
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New Guinea Painted Fiber Ornament
Lot: 26UnsoldNew Guinea Painted Fiber Ornament, in the form of a stylized head with boar tusk horns and cowrie shell detail, (damage, shell loss), ht. 19 in. 2881T/1663 CNS non pay #94300 12/3/16 pwk; more ...
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Maprik Chest Ornament
Lot: 27UnsoldMaprik Chest Ornament, painted fiber with nassa-shell and boar tusk decoration, in the form of a stylized human, ht. 10 3/4 in. more ...
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Three New Guinea Lime Containers
Lot: 28Sold for: $154$125Three New Guinea Lime Containers, two gourds and one of bamboo, all with incised or pyro-engraved decoration, with bone or wood dippers, lg. of container to 15 1/4 in. more ...
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New Guinea Lime Container
Lot: 29UnsoldNew Guinea Lime Container, bamboo with incised stylized designs, the bone dipper with bird head finial, ht. 16 in. more ...
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New Guinea Carved Wood Side-blown Trumpet
Lot: 30Sold for: $461$375New Guinea Carved Wood Side-blown Trumpet, with incised decoration and avian finial, blackened surface, patina of use, ht. 27 1/2 in. Provenance: Collected in the 1960s. more ...