ETHNOGRAPHIC ART AND ARTEFACTS
Friday, 14 - Monday, 24 March 2025
Two African Boule carved wood masks,
Lot Details
each bird crested, dark pigment finish with white heightening. H.400mm.
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Four Kimberley glass points
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Four Neolithic flaked stone tools, three with location inscribed. 'Dchira, Mauritanien 300,000 AR' (Western Sahara); 'La Guerche' (Indre-et-Loire, France); 'El Mekta 6 (Settat, Morocco); the fourth unnamed but described on sale in 2013 as 'Upper Paleolithic Flint, Abbevillian bifacial, amigdala' from Saharan Sudan (El-Fasher)'. Longest 120mm. Provenance: The Jorgen Lotz Collection.
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A contemporary Aboriginal digeridoo
A rare 19thC sailmaker's whalebone seam rubber
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A PNG fighting shield
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A 19thC sailor's whalebone rope-working fid
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Two Kimberley glass spear points
Estimate: $300 - $500
Three Kimberley points (two glass
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Five Māori stone adzes
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Three Kimberley glass points
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Three Aboriginal wrought copper breast plates ( gorgets)
Estimate: $200 - $400
Three Australian aboriginal stone tools
Estimate: $120 - $240
An Australian Aboriginal pearl shell lonka lonka (pubic cover)
Estimate: $220 - $400
A Central Australian Aboriginal ceremonial scarification and circumcision stone knife with sheath
Estimate: $220 - $500
A very good obsidian bladed spear, Bismarck Archipelago, Admiralty Islands, PNG. Late 19thC. Fine large flaked point fixed with parinarium nut paste and bound with fine cord mount with tri-colour ochre decoration and similar shoulder additionally with coix seeds, fitted to a slender tapering shaft. L.1610mm. Provenance: Mann Family Collection, Leipzig, Germany; Zemanek-Munster Wurzburg Auctions Sept 17, 2011; Tribal Art Kortmann 2012. The Jorgen Lotz Collection.
Estimate: $1,200 - $2,400
