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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 Chimu, pre-Inca Blackware Bottle, in the form of a magical owl, 21.5cm high, circa 1200-1400AD
Guide Price: £80-120
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A Mayan Pottery Bowl, Yukatan Peninsular, Mexico, with rounded base, the body painted with a series of U-shaped designs in brown on a cream background, 18.5cm diameter, chips to rim; a Mochica Figural Whistling Pot, North West Peru, the double chambered body in the form of a warrior with feline face, holding a club and a shield 16cm high; a Pre-Inca Pot, Bolivia, in the form of a woman, her globular body with pointed breasts and painted with bands of geometric designs, her head forming the neck of the vessel, 19cm high; a String of Pre-Inca, Bolivia Blue Sodalite Beads, each of cylindrical form; a similar string of stone beads (5)
Guide Price: £350-400
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A Mulolo, Eastern Zaire Spear, with broad finely worked ribbed socketed head, the long thin wood haft partly bound with coils and strips of copper, with steel pointed butt (carried as status symbols, currency or as a badge of office); a Ligbi, Sikasso, Ivory Coast Wood Dance Mask, the oblong face with horn like headdress over chequered forehead, pierced elliptical eyes, long fine nose and open mouth, 40cm high; an Eastern Cameroon Brass Bag, the lost wax made flattened body set with rings hung with bells and further ring, with a rising lid; a Collection of Thirteen Strings of African Trade Beads, including yellow 'Kano', Hauser beads, and others from Mali, Sudan, Mauritania and Southern Africa (16)
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A Rare String of 18th Century Gujaret, India Carnalian Trade Beads (Babaghoria) of faceted and elongated oblong form; an Early 20th Century Senufo Cult Figure, Ivory Coast, as a woman with crested coiffure, pointed breasts and long arms, on a shallow plinth, 26cm high; a Pair of Fang Wood Figures, of a man and a woman, each with a deep centre parting to the hair, and with upturned face, 31cm and 26cm high; an Early 20th Century Baule, Ivory Coast Wood Gbekre (Baboon Mask), the eye sockets and teeth decorated with a white pigmentation, 31cm high; two African Carved Wood Figural Catapults. (7)
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A Brass "Wand" of Axe Form, the square blade offset by a square section hammerhead, and with similarly shaped haft with pierced cruciform pommel, the whole with incised diapered decoration, pierced with dot and cruciform motifs, 22cm long, possibly Ethiopian.
Guide Price: £40-60
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A Pair of Yoruba Wood Ibeiji Figures, of a man and woman, each standing naked, with high combed hair, hands on hips, on a circular plinth base, 28cm high; a Yoruba Wood Figure of a Man, kneeling naked, with combed coiffure and pony tail, holding a two pestles, on a circular plinth, 37cm high; four strands of cowrie shells, pierced and strung with blue ribbon; two modern African Hardwood masks and a bust head and shoulders of a girl. (10)
Guide Price: £60-80
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A Benin, Nigeria Bronze Bust Head of an Oba, his elaborate woven headdress with tall central spike and coral type scrolling side pieces, coiled neck rings and woven armour, 33cm high; a Benin Cast Brass Head of a Queen Mother, with typical woven conical headdress and high ringed neck, 45cm high; a similar head of a Princess, with open scull, wearing a diadem, 35cm high. (3)
Guide Price: £70-90
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A Benin, Nigeria Bronze Bust of an Oba, the shallow domed and lattice woven headdress set with clusters of spikes, with scarifications to the forehead, wide open eyes, plump cheeks, nose and lips, with coiled neck rings, 26cm high; a Benin Small Bronze Figure of a Warrior, standing holding a sword; a Benin Small Bronze Figure of a Bearded Man, seated holding a horn and a pipe; an Abstract Metal Bust Head of a Man. (4)
Guide Price: £100-150
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A Zulu Hardwood Staff, the pommel carved as the head of a man with inset metal eyes, the tapered haft carved with a panel of basket weave, 95cm long; a Zulu Hardwood Staff, with globular pommel, the haft carved with an entwined snake in high relief, 108cm high. (2)
Guide Price: £150-200
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