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Militaria & Ethnographica: Friday 18 June 2010 10:30AM
Viewing: Thursday 17 June 9.00am - 5.00pm and morning of sale.
 

A Saw Fish Blade, with fifty teeth, 80cm.

Guide Price: £60-80

View Lot No. 277

 
 

An Inuit Walrus Ivory Bow Drill, of tapering square section, one side engraved and stained with figures in two boats hunting walrus, 52cm

Guide Price: £200-400

View Lot No. 278

 
 

A South Sea Islands Warriors Cape, of woven coir fibre, with wicker bound collar and twisted vegetable fibre tie.

Guide Price: £150-200

View Lot No. 279

 
 

A Large Zulu Hide Shield, of elliptical form, centrally interlaced with hide strips to secure the later wood handle, 136cm by 69cm.

Guide Price: £80-120

View Lot No. 280

 
 

An Ashante, Liberia Chief's Wood Stool, carved from one block of wood, with curved rectangular seat on an elephant support and shallow plinth, 61cm wide, 54cm high; a Collection of Ashante Beadwork, comprising two aprons, two bags and a purse; a Liberian Dagger, with wood grip and leather sheath with fringed tassel; a Gourd Maracca; a Volume of "Views in Liberia", produced for and presented by Firestones Plantation Compan, circa 1937, blue cloth binding.(8)

Guide Price: £150-250

View Lot No. 281

 
 

A 19th Century Marine Ivory and Baleen Spirit Stick, possibly Inuit, the pommel carved as the head of a man with inset baleen eyes, large flat ears, angular nose and mouth, the haft of seven sections of marine ivory divided by discs of baleen and ivory, 90cm long.

Guide Price: £500-800

View Lot No. 282

 
 

A Papua New Guinea Pineapple Stone Club Head, possibly 19th Cntury or earlier, 10cm diameter, 6cm high.

Guide Price: £80-120

View Lot No. 283

 
 

A Luba, Congo Wood Figure, as a kneeling woman with pendulous breasts, her hands upraised supporting a platter on her head, on an oval plinth, 44cm high

Guide Price: £50-60

View Lot No. 284

 
 

A Sapi, Sierra Leone Stone Figure, as a kneeling man, with carved hair and beard, bulbous features, holdin a club in one hand and his erect phallus in the other, 36cm high.

Guide Price: £80-120

View Lot No. 285

 
 

A South American Terracotta Lintel Post Finial, modelled as a man standing with one hand raised before him, wearing a helmet and a sword, 19.5cm high; an Indian Bronze Figural Staff Finial, as a Bhuddistic deity kneeling on a lotus blossom, 13cm high. (2)

Guide Price: £60-80

View Lot No. 286

 
 
 
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