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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 Micronesian Ebony Food Bowl, carved as a stylised crocodile with oval dished body, the head and pierced figure of eight carved tail forming the handles, 35cm long.

Guide Price: £120-180

View Lot No. 337

 
 

A North American Shaman or Back Woodsman's Hat, of coir type material, set with coiled leather and coiled wire tubular recepticles - possibly for feathers

Guide Price: £550-650

View Lot No. 338

 
 

A Treen Jar and Cover, possibly North West Coast Indian, painted with totem symbols including a duck, whale, waves and chevrons in muted green, black and red, 14.5cm high.

Guide Price: £90-120

View Lot No. 339

 
 

A Cameroon Large Terracotta Storage Jar, of slightly flared tapering cylindrical form, with ribbed body, on a shallow domed pedestal foot, 72cm high; a Cameroon Terracotta Straining Bowl, of globular form, the body pierced with numerous holes, 28cm high (2)

Guide Price: £150-180

View Lot No. 340

 
 

A Cameroon Large Earthenware Storage Jar, of rounded ovoid form, with narrow neck and splayed footrim, the body applied and moulded with two sinuous horn headed snakes, 44cm high.

Guide Price: £150-200

View Lot No. 341

 
 

A Large Chimu, South American Terracotta Marriage Figure Group, modelled as a man with one hand resting around the shoulders of his wife, both seated, their round heads with slits in the skulls, pierced eyes and open mouths, with small cup shaped ears, long thin arms with large outspread hands, short legs and feet with long toes, on a dished circular base, 29cm high

Guide Price: £300-400

View Lot No. 342

 
 

A Large Myanmar, Burma Textile Panel, of rectangular landscape form, richly embroidered in coloured threads, bullion threads, with stumpwork, and applied with sequins and jewelled glass beads, depicting a Nobleman with elephant and attendant in a room, the garden with further figures in a horse-drawn carriage with an attendant, all backed by ochre coloured cloth, 76cm by 173cm; two Similar Smaller Figurative Panels, each worked with an elephant, 45cm and 22cm square. (3)

Guide Price: £150-200

View Lot No. 343

 
 

A Bamileke, Cameroon Wooden Dance Mask, the high flat broken arched forehead with incised diamond decoration, large elliptical eyes above projecting cheeks, the large arched nose with flared nostrils, wide grimacing mouth, the base of the neck set with cowrie shells, 70cm high.

Guide Price: £200-300

View Lot No. 344

 
 

A Highlands Papua New Guinea Large Wood Shield, of curved vertical rectangular form, pierced and set with a woven wire lattice work panel to attach the handle (missing), painted with a diagonal cross with horizontal band running through its centre in red, yellow and white on a dark blue/black field, 155cm by 64cm.

Guide Price: £500-600

View Lot No. 345

 
 

A Fang Ngil Wood Mask, of pointed oval form, the high domed forehead with scroll incised decoration, with long aquiline nose, the kaolin covered heart shaped face with small pierced eyes and circular mouth, 45cm high, on a wrought metal display stand.

Guide Price: £120-180

View Lot No. 346

 
 
 
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