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  • Australian Aborigine Spearthrower and Club

    Australian Aborigine Spearthrower and Club

    Lot: 1212
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    Australian 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

    Australian Aboriginal Bark Painting

    Lot: 1213
    Sold for: $531$425

    Australian 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

    Mande Hunter Shirt

    Lot: 1214
    Sold for: $500$400

    Mande 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

    Dogon Figure

    Lot: 1215
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    Dogon 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

    Bamana Carved Wood Antelope Headdress

    Lot: 1216
    Sold for: $163$130

    Bamana 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

    African Wood Effigy Staff

    Lot: 1217
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    African 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

    Dan Mask, Gegon

    Lot: 1218
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    Dan 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

    African Metal Pick Axe

    Lot: 1219
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    African 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

    Collection of Tribal Currency

    Lot: 1220
    Sold for: $125$100

    Collection 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

    Baulu/Guro Horned Mask

    Lot: 1221
    Sold for: $406$325

    Baulu/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

    Baule Colonial Figure

    Lot: 1222
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    Baule 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

    Yoruba Double Figure Statue

    Lot: 1223
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    Yoruba 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

    Male Yoruba Ibeji Figure

    Lot: 1224
    Sold for: $113$90

    Male 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

    Male and Female Yoruba Ibeji Figures

    Lot: 1225
    Sold for: $125$100

    Male 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

    Tiv Male Figure

    Lot: 1226
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    Tiv 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

    Large African Pottery Vessel

    Lot: 1227
    Sold for: $63$50

    Large 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

    Small Nupa Pottery Spout Vessel

    Lot: 1228
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    Small 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

    Terra-cotta Nok Figure

    Lot: 1229
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    Terra-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

    Ekoi Diadem

    Lot: 1230
    Sold for: $156$125

    Ekoi 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

    Four Figurative Brass Akan Goldweights

    Lot: 1231
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    Four 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

    Ashanti Fertility Doll, Akuaba

    Lot: 1232
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    Ashanti 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

    Large Ashanti Wood Comb

    Lot: 1233
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    Large 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

    Large Ashanti Wood Comb

    Lot: 1234
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    Large 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

    Kongo-Vili Power Object

    Lot: 1235
    Sold for: $438$350

    Kongo-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

    Songye Power Figure

    Lot: 1237
    Sold for: $438$350

    Songye 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

    Kuba Palm Wine Cup

    Lot: 1238
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    Kuba 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

    Wood Congo Plaque Figure

    Lot: 1239
    Sold for: $125$100

    Wood 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

    Congo Palm Wine Cup

    Lot: 1240
    Sold for: $188$150

    Congo 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

    Congo Female Figure

    Lot: 1241
    Sold for: $2,375$1,900

    Congo 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

    Kuba Cloth

    Lot: 1242
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    Kuba 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 ...