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An Australian Aborigine Wood Parrying Shield, of slightly curved rounded oblong form, with integral carved handle, the fascia with three panels incised with zig-zag bands highlighted in a red pigment, 81cm by 19.5cm.
Guide Price: £400-600
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A West African Bamboo Wand of Office, the haft incised with bands of bearded masks and chevrons, with bronze 'Janus' head pommel, together with copy letters of original owner Major John Cameron CB, EIC, Native Infantry: a Pair of Peruvian Cast Bronze Inca Style Miniature Figurines, together with a related British Museum letter. (3)
Guide Price: £80-120
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A 19th Century Zulu Chief's Wood Staff, well carved with the head of a man to the pommel and half way down the haft, originally bound with woven brass wire, 945cm.; a Zulu Tribal Adornment, of compressed globuar cup form, made from overlapping raffia palm leaves with "nipple" of woven vegetable fibre, 6cm diameter. (2)
Guide Price: £70-100
View Lot No. 289
KALVAK, Inuit School - Seal Hunting, Fishing and a Polar Bear Hunt, a collection of four black ink on red and green linen type cloth, signed, in glazed brushed steel frames. (4)
Guide Price: £200-400
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A Kissi, Sierra Leone Red Stoneware Figure of a Man, standing, his hands raised to his chin, with round tufted coiffure, recessed heart shape face with traces of white pigment, elliptical eyes and mouth, and flattened triangular nose, with swollen belly, 23cm high (chip to foot and phallus)
Guide Price: £60-80
View Lot No. 291
A Zulu Chief's Wood Staff, with small globular pommel, the haft carved with the figure of a woman in a European crinoline dress over two standing figures of men and an entwined snake, 91.5cm high; Two Folk Art Wood Canes, each with a pommel carved as a human head. (3)
Guide Price: £100-150
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An Ashante Wood Chief's Stool, carved from a single block of wood, with curved rectangular seat, on diaper carved and block pierced front and back panel supports and shallow plinth, 61cm wide; an Igbo, Nigeria Wood Stool, with circular seat on four square section supports tied by an undertier, on a circular plinth, 23cm diameter. (2)
Guide Price: £150-250
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A Large Sub-Saharan African Unglazed Terracotta Communal Food Bowl, of shallow circular form, decorated with concentric bands of chevrons in ochre, on a waisting cylindrical foot, 50cm diameter.
Guide Price: £100-200
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An African Bronze Pouch, possibly Benin, of compressed bag form, cast with stylised figures of Adam and Eve with the serpent , with sliding lift-off cover, the ring scalloped base hung with cowrie shells and bells on leather straps, 26cm.
Guide Price: £50-60
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A Gaboon Wood Mask, with high combed coiffure, diamond scarification to the forehead, arched eyebrows, slit eyes, long nose with flared nostrils and heart shaped mouth, bearing traces of white, red and green pigment, 36cm; a Similar Gaboon Wood Mask, on a shaped plaque base, 32cm. (2)
View Lot No. 296