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Pugh (P.D Gordon) - Staffordshire Portrait Figures and Allied Subjects of the Victorian Era, 1981, dust wrapper; Oliver (Anthony) - Staffordshire Pottery - The Tribal Art of England, Heinemann 1981, signed by the author on the title page; The Victorian Staffordshire Figure, a Guide for Collectors 1971 (3)

A box of miscellaneous items including a cast iron Victorian iron, various metal wood planes, an African tribal figure etc.

A quantity of collectable's to include a slate scoreboard, cribbage boards, three wooden tribal carvings, an engineers tripod in canvas bag, two tins, a boxwood rule and sundry.

An Italian pottery face mask, circa 1950, modelled as a tribal warrior with coloured shield, together with a Falcon ware 'Flamar' jug.

A Carved Hardwood Tribal Stool, other tribal items, a Lloyd loom style chair, a Regency style convex wall mirror and other items (qty)

LATE VICTORIAN SCHOOL, head and shoulders profile portrait of a tribal Indian wearing a feather headpiece, jewellery and geometrically patterned robe,watercolour, unsigned, recent frame, 35cm x 21cm

A carved wooden tribal head and a similar carved wooden rattle fitted with brass discs.

An early 20th Century carved and painted softwood tribal mask, probably Mexican, with carved animal decoration, height 50cm.

Good Afshar or Khamseh rug Kerman area south central Persia second half 19th century 5ft.11in. x 4ft.8in. 1.80m. x 1.42m. Overall even wear in places. This rug represents a still controversial design group. Two examples illustrated by Bennett (Rugs and Carpets of the World p. 241 and Truly Tribal catalogue of an exhibition organised by Julian Homer [1988] pl. 36) described as Afshar are almost identical to the present piece and all are attributed to the Afshar principally because of their identical main and guard border designs. Another example of this type but with a yellow field surrounding the central dark blue medallion is illustrated by Opie Tribal Rugs of Southern Persia p. 87; this has the same pattern in a white ground inner guard as seen on our rug but a different main border design albeit one associated above all with the Afshar. However the Opie rug has the blue and white shisheh dermeh ends not known to be found on Afshar weavings and confined exclusively to rugs woven in Fars ( our rug has the remains of a red plainweave end at the top). Opie illustrates a second example with another version of this design p. 89 which is undoubtedly Khamseh and is quite distinct from the examples previously cited whilst Parham Masterpieces of Fars Rugs no. 29 illustrates yet another variant which is clearly Qashqa’i and unlike all the examples cited above is asymmetrically knotted.

Rug by the Baharlu tribe of the Khamseh Confederation Fars province second half 19th century 6ft.5in. x 4ft. 1.96m. x 1.22m. Overall wear heavy in one small area. See Opie Tribal Rugs of Southern Persia p.103 for a closely related rug.

Tribal art: A 19th century decorated East African coconut, cut with geometric shapes plus a Scandinavian 19th century horn and whalebone handled spoon, and another decorated wooden spoon a/f (3)

Tribal: a Zulu snuff bottle, decorated with blue beads and some buttons.

Tribal / African: nineteenth century beadwork, African semicircular panel hand-sewn with beads in red, white, and green, and matching necklace with beaded fringe to one edge (two)

A Georg Jensen Silver Necklace, by Henning Koppel (1917-1982) of tribal abstract form with green cabochon stone (see lot 274 for illustration)

Misc. lot, inc. Siamese silver brooch, ring & earrings, paua shell set bird brooch & circular earrings, amethyst set bar brooch, South African tribal warrior brooch & other items (8), stamped, tested or h/m (2.57oz) (15)

Yakovlev Aleksandr --Lucien Vogel (Ed.) alexandre iacovleff: dessins et peintures d'afrique executes au cours de l'Expedition Citroen Centre Afrique Paris Jules Meynial 1927 quarto 15 pages uncut with printed sketches by Yakovlev; the upper and lower covers lined with silk the upper cover with printed decoration on a tribal theme within original leather folding folio some staining and wear to the corners; containing 50 colour plates limited deluxe edition of 1000 copies this copy numbered 388 410 by 305mm.; 16.25 by 12in. (52)

African tribal miscellanea comprising Kava bowl on four legs the whole carved from the solid (20in. diam.) three baskets two drums beadwork mask carved wood mask painted tortoiseshell mask and four wood-carvings together with an Indonesian wood-carving (14)

A Kashgai Rug], the large red hooked diamond medallion on an indigo field with allover flowerheads etc, within an ivory hooked octagon main border, 220cm by 160cm; and [Another Tribal Rug] (2)

A collection of East African tribal artefacts

An African tribal mask from New Guinea

An African tribal mask from the Ivory Coast

An African tribal mask.

A Maori tribal carving, reduced.

A tribal leaf knife, possibly Salampasn with a horny grip handle.

A tribal mask, decorated with applied metalware and one other wooden mask carved as a dragons head in the oriental style.

An African carved and painted tribal mask 11.5in (29cm) h 5in (12.6cm) w.

"Tribal: a 'spearhead' blade small knife in leather tassell and woven grass sheath, plus a plain wooden policeman's truncheon, an Indian Kukri knife (blade inscr. Darjeeling 1943), a wooden walking stick and number of penknives in metal money box (q)"

A pair of carved wooden Tribal paddle spears, of elongated oval form with long handle the paddles with pierced and stylized crocodile carving height 5ft

An African ceremonial tribal spear having hand forged diamond shaped blade with long metal shaft fitted into short wooden grip with animal hair collar, 81cms long

An African ceremonial tribal axe having slender blade with simple etched decoration, fitted into hard wood shaft with bulbous top decorated with brass studding, the grip decorated with brass rings, 41cms long

Hardwood carved tribal paddle, 121cm.

Tribal club with punch decoration, 67cm.

Tribal painted paddle, 153cm.

Tribal spear mounted with a band of teeth, 138cm.

A Victorian design stool on cabriole supports, with scallop carved knees, upholstered with tribal flatweave, 46 x 101cm (18 x 40in)

Meek (C K) Tribal Studies in Northern Nigeria, 1931, two vols, Roberts (Austin) The Mammals of South Africa, 1951, illus, and a series of black and white photographs, Tibet, early 20th century (4)

A quantity of brass and copper collectables, warming pan with turned and ebonised handle, copper jug with faux crocodile skin body, a pair of Victorian brass candlesticks, an African tribal stick, two cast figures and sundry.

An African wooden tribal mask.

An African tribal carving, of a female head, 20cm high; Also a Chinese tea box.(2)

Zulu knob kerrie, two wooden spears, African carved wooden tribal club

A rare Ersari Turkmen kejebe pattern torba, south Turkmenistan, mid 19th century, pile area 1ft.1in. x 3ft.10in. 0.33m. x 1.17m. Losses to base and right side, left side kink cut out and joined, small hole. A comparison with the very similar torba illustrated by Loges, Turkoman Tribal Rugs, no. 96, suggests that this example is missing about 10 centimetres on the right; this and the Loges example appear to have very similar palettes.

Part cotton ghileem by the Kashkuli taifeh of the Qashqa’i Confederation, Fars province, south west Persia, second half 19th century, 9ft.9in. x 4ft.10in. 2.97m. x 1.47m. Slight uneven wear, one side stained in several places, probably remains of glue. The white areas of design are worked in bleached cotton. One of the best known, albeit rarest, of the major Qashqa’i ghileem designs; the distinctive palette found on all published examples, as well as the medachyl and zigzag borders also seen on all examples (usually in this chromatic arrangement), the ‘running dog’ pattern found between each wide horizontal band on most examples and the characteristic end panels, with their series of polychrome plainweave stripes interspersed with three narrow bands in white and tan or blue and tan containing a simple repeat pattern in extra weft wrapping, all suggest an attribution specifically to the Kashkuli taifeh; such an attribution is enforced by the fine weave shared by all examples. For three closely related rugs, see Black & Loveless, The Undiscovered Kilim, pl. 46 (and Petsopoulos, Kilim, pl. 400 for same piece) Housego, Tribal Rugs, pl. 72 and Opie, Tribal Rugs of Southern Persia, pp. 52-3; according to Opie, the principal motif in each band is called the shamey or comb.

A good and unusual rug by the Haybatlu tireh (?) of the Shishboluki taifeh of the Qashqa’i Confederation, Fars province, south west Persia second half 19th century, 7ft.6in. x 4ft.6in. 2.29m. x 1.37m. Very slight overall wear, very slight losses both ends. The attribution to the Haybatlu is speculative; it is based on the appearance of a particular medallion, which in its full form, as it appears in the centre, has four pendant cypress trees, and in its curtailed form is seen in the four corners. This is known traditionally as the Haybatlu medallion and is assumed to be an emblem of this sub-tribe of the Shishboluki. However, it is found on at least one published Kashkuli rug, the extraordinarily beautiful example illustrated by Schurmann in Oriental Carpets, p.129 and thus may not ever have been tribe specific, especially as the central part of the medallion is made up of four pairs of opposed botehs, a non-Persian motif; this medallion is now most often found on town workshop rugs, frequently in association with Persepolis horses’ heads (see, for instance, our sale of 7 July, 2005, lot 1040). The present rug would seem to be a much more characteristic example of 19th century Qashqa’i tribal weaving and as such is of some rarity.

Shahsavan pish sineh-e shotor and qashoqdan (camel chest band and spoon bags), the bags in extra-weft wrapping on plainweave grounds, the band in wool and the netting in plaited goat-hair, north west Persia early 20th century, the smaller bags each 7in. x 8in. 0.175m. x 0.20m., the larger bag 1ft.2in. 0.36m. sq. The wool band and some of the netting broken with small missing pieces. Complete with striped plainweave back. For an example of this type, see Tanavoli, Horse & Camel Trappings from Tribal Iran, pl. 90.

An interesting Jaf Kurd fragmented long rug, north west Persia, first half 19th century or earlier, overall 9ft.9in. x 3ft.4in. 2.97m. x 1.02m. Overall uneven wear, sides cut, slight loss lower end; now in two pieces, the remains of minor motifs at the side of field indicating that at least two Memling guls are missing. The brilliant colour and archaic ‘drawing’ of this fragmentary long rug indicate that it is a comparatively early example of Kurdish tribal weaving; both the palette and the blue ground guard with its repeated octagons strongly indicate that this is the work of the Jaf Kurds specifically and it is interesting that the form of the ‘leaf and calyx’ border is also seen on the Jaf Kurd rug illustrated in Burns, Antique Rugs of Kurdistan’, which the author dates to the first half of the 19th century. There is no reason to suppose that the present rug is any younger than the Burns piece and, in our opinion, could be considerably older.

An African Tribal ceremonial human-headed spoon, 17.5in. (45cm.) long, possibly Baule and a wood pestle, the handle carved as a stylised bird to which a monkey is clinging, 11.5in. (29cm.) long. (2).

Tribal / african: a collection of items includes two hand tools, carved wooden zebra dish, three soapstone ornaments, two oriental treen painted pots, wooden statuette etc (q)

Tribal / American Indian: a pair of small childs hand crochet / sewn moccasins, leather soles, plus a small snakeskin purse.

African / tribal: two fired terracotta pots, one with handles to sides, each with scarified type raised zigzag / ropetwist detail (2)

Two carved wooden African tribal masks, 20th century, one a woman with white painted teeth with two lizards in her hair, the other a man with single lizard to head (2)

Three African Tribal weapons

An African Fertility Pipe, made from a gourd carved as a man with scarified face and body; three African tribal hardwood figures (4)

A Tribal Mask, a beadwork tomahawk shape cushion, and a basket and cover (box)

A Tribal Drum, 52.5 cm high

A West African carved hard wood tribal spoon, the shank with a raised central girdle, 49cm (19in)

A West African carved hard wood tribal spoon, with raised and carved chevron girdle and arrow end, and a plain tribal spoon, the smallest 37cm (14 1/2in)

A West African polychromic painted tribal clay vessel, of ribbed globular form, with brightly painted primitive motif, 40cm (16in)

A West African carved wood tribal antelope headed mask, with carved horns and geometric chip carved decoration, considered to be Bambara tribe, 53cm (21in) high, on later stand

A West Africa tribal flat weave hanging textile, considered to be from Niger with geometric motif, and some supplementary weft work, blue, red, cream and gold banded form, 428 x 176cm (14ft x 69in)

A West African carved wood tribal mask, in the form of stylised antelope head, signs of original paint, considered to be Senufo, 71cm (28in) high