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An Austral Islands Wood Paddle, the back of the blade carved with bands of sunbursts and stars with a raised central ridge, the front carved with tiny bands of chevrons, the tapering cylindrical shaft with six panels of chevron bands, the circular pommel carved with eight dancing figures with large heads, 114cm long, blade 23cm wide. (Blade edge on one side has a broken and glued section of 25cm in length and 6cm at its deepest.)
Guide Price: £700-1000
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A Papua New Guinea Wood Hand Drum, of narrow spool shape, with stretched snakeskin drum head, the base hung with tassels of cowrie shells, 56cm high; Three Modern Wood Masks; a Brown Cotton Wrap, printed with bands of flowers and chevrons in bright yellow, green and cream; Seven Various Bamboo Spears, with barbed, pointed or concave pointed heads. (12)
Guide Price: £100-150
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A Massim, Trobriand Islands Ebony Lime Spatula, with plain blade, the flattened rectangular handle carved in low relief with bands of gradulated oblong motifs, the background bearing traces of white pigment, 42cm long.
Guide Price: £80-120
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A Turtle Shell Comb, Papua New Guinea, with eight long teeth, the high arched handpiece pierced with dot motifs, 27cm by 6.5cm
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A Scimshaw Work Polar Bear Tooth, worked as an eagle's head, the neck with a ribbon inscribed "WHALE SHIP EAGLE", 8.5cm long; a Scrimshaw Work Horn, decorated with flowerheads, berries, tendrils and leaves, 14cm long.
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An African Wood Staff, cleverly carved as a snake with inset glass eyes entwined around a pole with the bark removed, and surmounted by a parrot, 147cm high.
Guide Price: £60-80
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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.
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A Congo Bone Walking Stick, carved as four men, each seated on the head of another, with scarified chests, and with twisted copper wire turban type headdresses, one with nut pod tassels, with a metal spike and angular handle, 86cm high.
Guide Price: £150-200
View Lot No. 313
A Dan, Ivory Coast Wood Mask, with high domed forehead, circular pierced eyes, beaked nose and mouth; a Yoruba, Nigeria Wood Helmet Mask, with headdress of four birds feeding from a pedestal bowl, the face with pierced staring eyes, flattened triangular section nose and scarified cheeks. (2)
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A Pende, Congo Wood Helmet Mask, with three top knots, large forehead with central medial ridge, arched eyebrows over slit eyes, projecting oval block mouth; an Ashante, Ghana Fertility Doll, the disc shaped head with carved features, long neck wearing black and white bead necklaces, short outstretched arms, long body with domed navel button. (2)
View Lot No. 315