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Militaria and Ethnographica: Friday 31 July 10:30AM
Viewing: Thursday 30 July 9am - 5pm and Friday 31 July 8.30am - 10am
 

A Benin, Nigeria Bronze Head of a King, with elliptical staring eyes, broad nose, heart shaped mouth and with scarification to the forehead, wearing a high curved conical lattice woven headdress pendant with bands of beads to the back of the neck, the long neck with a collar of multiple bands of beads, 54cm high

Guide Price: £100-200

View Lot No. 329

 
 

A Bete, Ivory Coast Wood Mask, of vertical rounded rectangular form, with domed forehead below an arched bridge which joins the ears, with a large triangular section nose, slit eyes with swollen lids, large projecting mouth, the face enclosed by seven curved tusks with brass studded decoration, 37cm high

Guide Price: £100-150

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A Bameleke, Cameroon Beaded Wooden Elephant Ceremonial Headdress, with elongated ears and trunk, all-over covered in yellow, red, blue and black glass beads, 94cm long.

Guide Price: £150-250

View Lot No. 331

 
 

A Tuareg, North Africa Wooden Tent Peg, with globular knop, the flattened irregular rectangular body carved with bands of chevrons, 70cm long, weathered patination.

Guide Price: £70-90

View Lot No. 332

 
 

A Northern Thailand Wooden Door Lintel, with cylindrical end panels with dowel holes, tied by two curved poles joined by a bracket to the main lintel, 76cm long, on a display stand

Guide Price: £80-120

View Lot No. 333

 
 

A Fang, Gabon Wood Mask, of long narrow form, with high domed forehead, small eliptical eyes, long block nose and pursed lips, decorated in red, orange, blue and white pigments, 54cm long; an Ashante, Ghana Wood Mask, the small oval face with circular pierced eyes and mouth, applied with coloured beads, the domed forehead and pronged headdress applied with embossed brass sheets, 49cm long (2)

Guide Price: £70-90

View Lot No. 334

 
 

A Cameroon Earthenware Pipe, the bowl modelled as an anthropomorphic figure, with wooden stem and mouthpiece, 42cm long; a Cameroon Clay Vessel, covered in an ochre pigment and modelled as a stylised man with globular body with small moulded hands, tall cylindrical neck with upturned head with open mouth, wearing brass earrings, 30cm high; a Berber, Morocco Clay Pot, of rounded cylindrical form, the waisted neck with drawn handle, painted with feathered bands and diapering in brown and red, 32cm high (3)

Guide Price: £100-150

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A Songye, Congo Kifwebe Wood Mask, of domed oval form, with a central ridge leading down the forehead to the narrow nose, with pierced arched eyes and circular protruding mouth, the whole with linear incisions bearing traces of white pigment, 27cm high

Guide Price: £60-90

View Lot No. 336

 
 

An Ashante, Ghana Wood Mask, of domed circular form, with stylised bird headdress, slit eyes, and square open mouth, the face decorated with sheet brass and coloured beadwork, 33cm high; an Ashante, Ghana Wood Mask, of circular form, with slit eyes within circular sockets, square open mouth, the face set with white metal lozenge motifs and beadwork, 28cm diameter (2)

Guide Price: £60-90

View Lot No. 337

 
 

An Ashante, Ghana Large Wood Figure of a Queen, the head with high domed forehead, wearing her hair in two plaited side bands, the raised eyebrows extending down the nose ridge, with eliptical eyes, and closed mouth, seated on a throne stool, her hands resting on her pendulous breasts, 114cm high.

Guide Price: £100-150

View Lot No. 338

 
 
 
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