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Costa Rican Jade Staff-bearer Pendant
Lot: 6Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800Costa Rican Jade Staff-bearer Pendant, Atlantic watershed region, c. 300-700 AD, the monkey standing on bent legs and holding a double-headed staff before him, an alligator's head at the base with ...
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Costa Rican Stone Mace Head
Lot: 9Estimate: $300 - $500Costa Rican Stone Mace Head, c. 500-1000 AD, alabaster, owl-form, with large curved beak, recessed round eyes, and horns, with central insertion shaft hole, lg. 3 3/4 in. ...
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Diquis Gold Pendant of a Man
Lot: 11Estimate: $700 - $900Diquis Gold Pendant of a Man, Costa Rica, c. 800-1500 AD, standing with legs apart, holding an axe in the right hand, and possibly a rattle in the left, with exaggerated facial features and ears, ...
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Diquis Gold Pendant Figure
Lot: 12Estimate: $300 - $500Diquis Gold Pendant Figure, Costa Rica, c. 800-1500 AD, figure of a man, possibly singing, with right hand on chest and left arm raised, wearing a hat, with suspension loop on top of the head, gold ...
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Stone Tanimbar Figure
Lot: 22Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000Stone Tanimbar Figure, South Moluccas, Indonesia, standing on heavy legs, with thin arms carved in relief, holding hands to the chest, the head a separate stone with open mouth, crescent ears, long ...
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Dayak Wood Coffin End
Lot: 26Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500Dayak Wood Coffin End, 19th century, Kayan, Dayak, Borneo, Indonesia, large anthropomorphic Aso figure, possibly a dog or dragon, once attached to the end of a coffin, with large glass bead eyes and ...
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Kendayan Dayak Hampatong Ancestor Cult Figure
Lot: 27Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000Kendayan Dayak Hampatong Ancestor Cult Figure, Western Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia, standing on a rectangular block support, with articulated arms held out to the sides and hands open, with a ...
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Nepalese Wood Votive Figure
Lot: 34Estimate: $500 - $700Nepalese Wood Votive Figure, West Nepal, Dolpa region, seated figure on a tall round base, with hands together, mouth open in elongated head, weathered and encrusted surface, on wood base, ht. 18 ...
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Papuan Gulf Betel Nut Staff
Lot: 36Estimate: $800 - $1,200Papuan Gulf Betel Nut Staff, Wapo Delta, Papuan Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea, late 19th century, hardwood staff, with an abstract head at the top, below is a 5-in. cutout, with lime-filled ...
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New Guinea Suspension Food Hook
Lot: 49Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800New Guinea Suspension Food Hook, Iatmul, Middle Sepik River Province, mid-20th century, with the head and torso of an ancestor figure, with cowrie shell eyes, the lower part made up of five large ...
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Large Asmat Wood Neck Rest, Wiwas
Lot: 60Estimate: $800 - $1,200Large Asmat Wood Neck Rest, Wiwas, carved with an ancestor head on each end, the mid-section carved in high relief with several complex design features, including flying fox feet, (age crack and ...
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Tolai Mask, Lor
Lot: 66Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800Tolai Mask, Lor, Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain, Papua New Guinea, 20th century, hollowed-out face mask, with elongated nose above a smiling mouth, with slit eyes below a horizontally cut brow, ...
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Kanak Bird-head Club
Lot: 67Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500Kanak Bird-head Club, New Caledonia, 19th century, hardwood club with defined handle grip and pointed beak head, lg. of club 24 1/4, lg. of beak 10 1/2 in. Provenance: Private collection, ...
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Santa Cruz Dance Staff, Napa
Lot: 68Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500Santa Cruz Dance Staff, Napa, Solomon Islands, hardwood, in the form of a highly stylized canoe, with two raised opposing abstracted ancestral heads, the whole decorated with classical linear ...
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Rennell Islands Club, Baukiana
Lot: 69Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500Rennell Islands Club, Baukiana, Bellona Island, Solomon Islands, 20th century, hardwood, and rattan, the strapped stone head carved into eight blunt points, lg. 14 in. Provenance: Private ...
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Fijian Hardwood Dance Club, Gugu
Lot: 74Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000Fijian Hardwood Dance Club, Gugu, early 19th century, the typical leaf shaped head formed in two parts with raised linear and round features, the head decorated overall with fine line incised ...
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Austral Islands Ceremonial Paddle
Lot: 84Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000Austral Islands Ceremonial Paddle, mid-19th century, overall carved geometric designs, the top with eight stylized heads, round-cut shaft, dark patina, (restoration to the blade, with one small ...
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Austral Islands Ceremonial Paddle
Lot: 85Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000Austral Islands Ceremonial Paddle, c. mid-19th century, overall carved geometric designs, unusual treatment of the short round-cut shaft, the top with eight stylized heads, dark patina, lg. 33 1/2 ...
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Maori Fighting Staff, Taiaha
Lot: 101Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500Maori Fighting Staff, Taiaha, New Zealand, 19th century, the long shaft with Janus-head finial, the stylized protruding tongue with finely carved scroll design, with paua shell inlay in the eyes, ...
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Dogon Tellem Figure
Lot: 109Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800Dogon Tellem Figure, Mali, rising from a circular base, on heavy bent legs leading to cylindrical torso, with narrow shoulders below elongated arms raised above the head, a cylindrical neck ...
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Dogon Figure
Lot: 110Estimate: $800 - $1,200Dogon Figure, hardwood, abstracted human figure, legs, arms and head defined by broad cutout grooves in the wood, with dry encrusted patina, on metal stand, ht. 11 in. Provenance: Private ...
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Senufo Dance Headdress
Lot: 113Estimate: $800 - $1,200Senufo Dance Headdress, square form with cutout checkerboard design, with trace of rattan head attachment at bottom, with custom bronze stand, 22 x 16 1/2 in. Provenance: Private collection, ...
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Three Terra-cotta Heads and Torso
Lot: 119Estimate: $500 - $700Three Terra-cotta Heads and Torso, Sokoto, Bura, and Akan, a head with elongated neck, mounted on wood base, a flattened face with elaborate coiffure, on custom stand, and a female torso on flat ...
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Lobi Standing Female Figure
Lot: 120Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800Lobi Standing Female Figure, standing on heavy feet and legs, with cutout arms at sides, swollen abdomen and pronounced belly button, the thick neck supports the head turned to the left in profile, ...
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Lobi Figure
Lot: 121Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000Lobi Figure, Burkina Faso, standing on heavy feet, with long legs, arms held at the side and head turned to the right, encrusted patina, on metal stand, ht. 26 in. Provenance: Private ...
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Yoruba Bronze Equestrian Fragment
Lot: 125Estimate: $300 - $500Yoruba Bronze Equestrian Fragment, Nigeria, Benin, the head, long neck, and two front legs of a horse, with harness and decoration, restored from two fragments, mounted on wood base, ht. 6, lg. 6 ...
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Yoruba Stone Figure
Lot: 126Estimate: $800 - $1,200Yoruba Stone Figure, seated female figure, holding a human head between her knees, ht. 11 in. Provenance: Private collection, Westport, New York; Willy Okwerekwu, Boston, Massachusetts. ...
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Igbo Warrior Figure
Lot: 127Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000Igbo Warrior Figure, Ikenga, Nigeria, seated on a stool, holding sword in right hand, and human head in left, with swollen, elongated neck, and twisted horned headdress, with dry, encrusted surface, ...
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Ibo Female Standing Figure
Lot: 129Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800Ibo Female Standing Figure, the attenuated figure stands straight with hands cupped in a gesture to the front, with sloping shoulders beneath a thick, elongated neck and head with an open mouth ...
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Chamba Figure
Lot: 130Estimate: $3,000 - $4,000Chamba Figure, Nigeria, rising from a cylindrical base, the figure with elongated arms, narrow torso and abstracted head with simply defined features, on wood base, ht. 28 in. Provenance: ...