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Australian Aborigine Spearthrower and Club
Lot: 1212UnsoldAustralian Aborigine Spearthrower and Club, the spearthrower probably from the Aurukun area of North Queensland, the throwing stick with incised fluted carving along shaft and grooved grip, lg. 30 more ...
Australian Aboriginal Bark Painting
Lot: 1213Sold for: $531$425Australian Aboriginal Bark Painting, Northern Arnhem Land, N.T., echidna or porcupine, in X-ray style, painted on eucalyptus bark, by Nguleingulei from Oenpelli, in conjunction with the Church more ...
Mande Hunter Shirt
Lot: 1214Sold for: $500$400Mande Hunter Shirt, coarse fiber tunic, decorated with cowrie shells, horn, and boar tusks, and numerous small leather-framed hide rectangles, lg. 28, wd. at shoulders 19 in. more ...
Dogon Figure
Lot: 1215UnsoldDogon Figure, a male figure with arms outstretched over his head, riding an animal, dry, eroded and encrusted surface, lg. 32, ht. 11 in. more ...
Bamana Carved Wood Antelope Headdress
Lot: 1216Sold for: $163$130Bamana Carved Wood Antelope Headdress, Mali, Chi Wara, the female form with straight spiraled horns carrying a smaller form on her back, incised detail, and stamped metal facial decorations, ht. 37 more ...
African Wood Effigy Staff
Lot: 1217UnsoldAfrican Wood Effigy Staff, Dogon, in the form of a highly stylized animal head with long neck forming the shaft and open mount, cut-out eye and crested head, encrusted patina, with metal stand, ht. more ...
Dan Mask, Gegon
Lot: 1218UnsoldDan Mask, Gegon, hollowed elongated form, the bill with square tip and fur attachments, the medial ridge leading to slit pierced eyes with arching brows beneath rounded forehead, framed by three more ...
African Metal Pick Axe
Lot: 1219UnsoldAfrican Metal Pick Axe, 19th century, unknown origin, wood and metal shaft with metal handle and small metal beak-shaped blade, lg. 21 1/2 in. more ...
Collection of Tribal Currency
Lot: 1220Sold for: $125$100Collection of Tribal Currency, two Kissi pennies, long lengths of iron, from Sierra Leone, Liberia and French Guinea, one piece of canoe money from Laos, two West African Manilla bracelets, and a more ...
Baulu/Guro Horned Mask
Lot: 1221Sold for: $406$325Baulu/Guro Horned Mask, large hollowed out mask, with open mouth, long sharp nose, cut-out coffee bean eyes with scarification on forehead and sloping back horns, painted in black, blue, white and more ...
Baule Colonial Figure
Lot: 1222UnsoldBaule Colonial Figure, standing figure of a man in colonial dress, with tropical helmet, most of the paint has been removed, ht. 13 in. more ...
Yoruba Double Figure Statue
Lot: 1223UnsoldYoruba Double Figure Statue, standing male and female figures, on atop the other, with metal stand, (age cracks in the wood),ht. 26 in. more ...
Male Yoruba Ibeji Figure
Lot: 1224Sold for: $113$90Male Yoruba Ibeji Figure, standing on a circular base, with raised feet, legs set apart with the arms detached from the body and hands on thighs, square shoulders beneath the oval face, with metal more ...
Male and Female Yoruba Ibeji Figures
Lot: 1225Sold for: $125$100Male and Female Yoruba Ibeji Figures, each standing on a circular base, the male a larger example, the rounded shoulders below oval faces with typical features, each with incised coiffure, the more ...
Tiv Male Figure
Lot: 1226UnsoldTiv Male Figure, the heavy legs supporting wide hips and narrow waist, the short arms holding the abdomen, the thick neck supports a flat abstracted head, on a metal base, ht. 13 3/4 in. more ...
Large African Pottery Vessel
Lot: 1227Sold for: $63$50Large African Pottery Vessel, Nigeria, thick walled vessel with two carrying lugs and various figures in relief around the sides, ht. 13 1/4 in. more ...
Small Nupa Pottery Spout Vessel
Lot: 1228UnsoldSmall Nupa Pottery Spout Vessel, angled spout with wide band handle, with a human head at the top of the vessel, with conical coiffure, ht. 7 1/4 in. more ...
Terra-cotta Nok Figure
Lot: 1229UnsoldTerra-cotta Nok Figure, northern Nigeria, seated figure of a man, (losses),ht. 19 in. Provenance: The Stebbins family collection, Massachusetts; purchased from a private dealer in 1992. more ...
Ekoi Diadem
Lot: 1230Sold for: $156$125Ekoi Diadem, Nigeria, hide wrapped around a rattan oval, with three sets of protrusions, ht. 11 1/2, wd. 10 in. Provenance: Norman Hurst Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts. more ...
Four Figurative Brass Akan Goldweights
Lot: 1231UnsoldFour Figurative Brass Akan Goldweights, a man with a child on his back harvesting, a man with a flute and a chicken, a large mudfish, and two birds on a tree, ht. 2 1/4, 2, lg. 2 1/4, and ht. 3 more ...
Ashanti Fertility Doll, Akuaba
Lot: 1232UnsoldAshanti Fertility Doll, Akuaba, cylindrical form with short arms outstretched, the elongated neck below the large circular head with long nose and slit eyes and mouth, dark black patina, on a wood more ...
Large Ashanti Wood Comb
Lot: 1233UnsoldLarge Ashanti Wood Comb, Ghana, with five long tines and two panels with finely incised geometric designs, smooth, worn patina, lg. 12 1/2 in. Provenance: Michael Rhodes, New York City. more ...
Large Ashanti Wood Comb
Lot: 1234UnsoldLarge Ashanti Wood Comb, carved with numerous square cut-outs and an Ashanti stool in the center, several names engraved above the stool on each side, lg. 13 1/2 in. more ...
Kongo-Vili Power Object
Lot: 1235Sold for: $438$350Kongo-Vili Power Object, round wicker basket containing part of a small skull encased in hardened clay, above the skull is a small wooden figure of a heavily pregnant woman surrounded by a metal more ...
Songye Power Figure
Lot: 1237Sold for: $438$350Songye Power Figure, Congo, the legs wrapped in sacking, hands on abdomen, with a magic bundle in cloth bag around waist, elongated neck and angular head with defined coiffure, ht. 14 in. more ...
Kuba Palm Wine Cup
Lot: 1238UnsoldKuba Palm Wine Cup, a small cup fully decorated with interlocking relief-carved bands on a crosshatched ground, with handle, with numbers and labels on the bottom, (age crack),ht. 3 3/4 in. more ...
Wood Congo Plaque Figure
Lot: 1239Sold for: $125$100Wood Congo Plaque Figure, Holo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, figure with arms outstretched, sitting framed in a square opening of the panel, with brass tack accents, pierced at the top, dry more ...
Congo Palm Wine Cup
Lot: 1240Sold for: $188$150Congo Palm Wine Cup, Suku, Democratic Republic of the Congo, double mouthed cup for drinking palm wine, decorated with crosshatched incised design on each side, smooth dark patina, (age crack on one more ...
Congo Female Figure
Lot: 1241Sold for: $2,375$1,900Congo Female Figure, standing on large feet, with short squat legs, the elongated torso with cut-out arms with hands on thighs, the long cylindrical neck with carved necklaces, the heart-shaped face more ...
Kuba Cloth
Lot: 1242UnsoldKuba Cloth, Democratic Republic of the Congo, raffia, three panels sewn together, decorated with applied geometric shapes in both dark and light colors, (minor staining),67 1/2 x 29 1/4 in. more ...