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A collection of mixed furniture to include; a 20th century rectangular coffee table with two stepped legs and single stretcher, approx. 87cm wide, a 20th century leather/hide cased drum of tribal style, with accompanying copper tray to top, along with two small 20th century inlaid miniature tables, one of square and the other octagonal shape, (both with mixed wood and bone inlays), and a 1950s or later Deco style reproduction sideboard/chiffonier with two door front and four drawers, approx. 137cm long x 43cm deep, some signs of damage to places. (5)
A set of six framed & glazed Papua New Guinea white metal tribal tokens & sculptures. The lot comprising a halved Kundu drum with black enamel detailing; a Bilum plant fibre style bag; a Lakatoi double-hulled sailing watercraft; a ceremonial axe; an enamelled tribal tool; and a tribal mask. All professionally framed with silk backing, velvet mount inside a hardwood box frame with glass front. White metal with surface test indicating silver. Each case measures approx. 5cm x 35cm x 6.5cm.
Tribal Art and the Eclectic Interior - a Papua New Guinea bowl, carved as a crocodile, cowrie shell eyes, 73cm long, Sepik River; another carved crocodile; a drum; a female figure; another figure, holding a bowl, mother of pearl inlaid, 43cm high; another (6)Provenance: Collected in Papua New Guinea during the 1970's. Consigned boxed with a special issue of the Papua New Guinea Post Courier from September 1979
A mixed collection of 20th century African tribal and South American items and other to include; various knives, a set of scales that fold into club shaped wooden holder, fabric belts, one with attached Jambaya dagger (circa 1980s - Yemen), a white metal, stone and gilt metal belt with attached chatelaine, various fabrics, drum, wip and clothing including a large leather tassle like dress and a Native American/South American 20th century waistcoat, and a cased set of Medieval shield shaped Horse Harness pendants (Circa 1250-1400) (13 in total) and others (2 boxes)
A Kisanji with gourd, wood and iron lamellophone, with gourd (which works as a resonance box), carved decoration "Geometric motifs", Angolan - Tshokwe, 20th C. (mid), missing a lamella, minor defects, major patina wear, purchased in Mucussueje (Moxico) on 18-3-1971. Notes: Provenance: Collection of Engineer Elísio Romariz dos Santos Silva Fig. 4 in the notes printed "A Escultura Tribal dos Povos Banto" updated version, from 1995, of the work with the title "A Escultura Negro-Africana Vista à Luz da Filosofia Banta", which the author presented in 1971, for the XXII Floral Games of Huambo Town Hall (former Nova Lisboa) - Angola, p. 12. Original work available at https://memoriaafrica.ua.pt/Library/ShowImage.aspx?q=/bchuambo/bchuambo-026&p=10, consulted on March 16, 2023 at 11:16. Item number 148, mentioned in the notebook of the collector «Angola - Arte Negra, Relação e descrição das peças», identified in it as «Kakolondondo»:"Decoration by incisions - rectangle with 3 motifs; the central one is reminiscent of a stylized "mucupela" 2-stroke drum. Above the rectangle are three circumferential arches. [...] Purchased in Mucussueje [Moxico], on 18.3.71 [...]. According to José Redinha "The kisanjis «lungando", «muiemba», «kakolondondo», «tchakel» and «saso» usually apply sounding boards made of gourds." - cf. REDINHA, José - "Campanha Etnográfica ao Tchiboco (Alto-Tchicapa) - Anotações e Documentação gráfica", volume 2. In "Diamag - Publicações Culturais nº 19". Lisboa: Companhia de Diamantes de Angola - Serviços Culturais Dundo - Lunda - Angola - Museu do Dundo, 1955, p. 20. Other kisanjis are represented in DIAS, Jorge (direc.) - "Escultura Africana no Museu de Etnologia do Ultramar". Lisboa: Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, 1968, s/p, nº 158; in SANTOS, Soraia Ferreira (coord.) - "A Herança dos Povos do Sul de Angola". Lubango: Museu Regional da Huíla, 2018, p. 57, nºs inv. 2003.R.247 and 2002.R.252; in FELIX, Marc Leo. - "100 Peoples of Zaire and Their Sculpture: The Handbook". Brussels: Zaire Basin Art History Research Foundation, 1987, p. 97, nº 15; and in BASTIN, Marie-Louise. "La sculpture Tshokwe”. Arcueil: Alain et Françoise Chaffin, 1982, p. 244, nº 167., Dim. - (quissanje) 11,6 x 7,3 x 0,5 cm
A Gabon drummer figurestanding with his right leg raised and with his foot on the heel rail of the drum, his hands placed on the hide skin of the solid drum, with inset carved bone teeth and eyes, with a nailed hide coiffure,66cm high, on a base.ProvenanceA civil engineer attached to the Spanish Delegation to Rio Muni until 1933.Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.Christie's, London, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 129.
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