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Arms, Armour, Militaria and Ethnographica: Friday 11 December 2009 10:30AM
Viewing: Thursday 10 December 9.00am - 5.00pm and morning of sale
 

A South-Eastern Australian Pre-Contact Aborigine Wood Boomerang, with adzed surface, 57cm long.
**See Petty, "The Art of Eastern Australia", p.184, for an almost identical example.

Guide Price: £150-200

View Lot No. 296

 
 

A Western Australian Aborigine Fighting Boomerang/Stick, of thick dark wood, the convex side roughly hewn, possibly using stone tools, one end of the flattened side inscribed in ink "Mandora Station, Port Headland, W.A.", 65cm long.

Guide Price: £250-300

View Lot No. 297

 
 

Two Almost Matching Western Australian Aborigine Wood Boomerangs, each slightly convex to one side, undecorated, 71.5cm and 72cm long.
**See Montague "Weapons and Implements of Savage Races",p.33, Number 1, for a similar example.

Guide Price: £500-600

View Lot No. 298

 
 

A South-Eastern Australian Aborigine Wood Pole Club/Fighting Stick, of heavy rounded cylindrical form, the pointed grip with scratch carved decoration, 125cm long.

Guide Price: £250-350

View Lot No. 299

 
 

A Western Australian Aborigine Wood Dance Spear, the spear head with barbed neck on a tapering cylindrical haft, 122cm long.

Guide Price: £120-150

View Lot No. 300

 
 

A 19th Century Zulu Knobkerrie, with bulbous head, the tapering cylindrical haft set with an eliptical silver plaque engraved "BATTLE OF ULANDI 1879", 78cm long.

Guide Price: £350-450

View Lot No. 301

 
 

A 19th Century Afghan Tribal Leather Belt, with brass buckle, hung with numerous attachments including a gourd, a priming flask, cartridge pouches, clipped chains etc; a Tulwar, the slightly curved saw edge steel blade inlaid wiht dots and crescent motifs in gilt, with silver inlaid steel hilt. (2)

Guide Price: £50-60

View Lot No. 302

 
 

A Dogon Door of Womanhood, made of two panels, one carved with two bands of four women standing side by side, the other carved with three bands of five women standing side by side, 62cm by 42cm

Guide Price: £60-80

View Lot No. 303

 
 

A South African Chief's Hardwood Staff, with globular pommel, the haft carved with a wrythen band of four tendrils; a South African Wood Walking Cane, carved as two entwined tendrils, the pommel set with a brass R.W.A.F.F.button (2)

Guide Price: £70-100

View Lot No. 304

 
 

An Ashante Wood Doll, Ghana, the flat circular face with features carved in shallow relief, tall neck, cylindrical body with pointed breasts, with outstretched arms, 27cm high; a Luba Kifwebe Type Wood Mask, of circular form, with pierced eyes and mouth, the face carved with bands alternately painted black, with raffia beard, 31cm; a Papua New Guinea Small Wood Mask, with panelled overhanging forehead, inset cowrie shell eyes, and hooked beak nose, painted in pink, black and ochre pigments, 28cm high; A West African Janus Figure, of a crouching mother wearing a vegetable fibre necklace, one face smiling, the other with anguished look, with one hand resting on the shoulder of a small child kneeling at her side, 36cm high, possibly Songye; a Carved Wood Ancester Figure, of a man, standing, with small ears to the side of his forehead, inset eyes, arrow head shaped nostrils and small slit smiling mouth, his chest with prominent carved ribcage, 58cm high, possibly Sepik River; a West African Ebonised Wood Stool, with circular seat carved with concentric bands of chevrons, on three outcurved legs (6)

Guide Price: £100-200

View Lot No. 305

 
 
 
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