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A Bisa staff, Zambia, with a carved standing figural terminal, with an ovoid head, on a metal and wood shaft, 98.5cm long. Provenance Dr James Sp...

A Senufo heddle pulley, Ivory Coast, carved with a bird head with inset glass bead eyes, 18.2cm high. Provenance Dr James Spillius, London.

Ten brass figures, Ivory Coast, including a pair with baskets and three playing drums, 18.6cm the highest. (10) Provenance Dr James Spillius, Lond...

Seven Akan brass gold weights, Ghana, chameleons and a crocodile, 20.6cm the longest, an Akan brass bell, with a fish and figure handle, 16.2cm hi...

Sixteen brass figural gold weights, Ivory Coast, modelled performing various activities, 9.2cm high and another of two birds in a tree. (17) Prove...

λ A Luba pendant, hippopotamus tooth carved with a suspension hole as a female with coffee bean eyes, a ribbed band coiffure and arms supporting h...

A Luba carved hippopotamus tusk, D.R. Congo, a female figure, 17cm high, with stand. (2) Provenance Dr James Spillius, London.

λ A Songye ivory oliphant, D R Congo, with pierced mouthpiece to the tapered point, with incised dot decoration and Janus mask, the flared horn w...

A Loango carved hippopotamus tusk, Angola, with bands of figures in native and colonial dress, 11.5cm high. Provenance Dr James Spillius, London.

An Ashanti brass container, kuduo, embossed and engraved with bird and geometric decoration, with domed cover and pierced base, 17.5cm high. Prove...

An Ashanti Akuaba doll, Ghana, the reverse of the head with carved linear decoration, with stamped brass earrings and beads, 30.5cm high. Provenan...

A Senufo mask, Ivory Coast, 37cm high, a Baule mask, 26.5cm high, and four West African carved figures. (6) Provenance Dr James Spillius, London.

A Bamileke bronze bird vessel, Cameroon, with triangular impressed pattern, 33cm long. Provenance Christie's, 26th April 1977, lot 161. Dr James S...

A Congo mask, with shallow coiffure and oval raised forehead tablet, pierced eyes and mouth, with beard, scorched decoration, 32.5cm high. Provena...

A Northwest Coast argillite totem, carved with a frog, bear, raven and beaver, on a square base, 26cm high. Provenance Dr James Spillius, London.

A Northwest Coast argillite totem, carved with a killer whale, eagle and bear with a human issuing from it's mouth, on a line decorated square bas...

A Northwest Coast argillite totem, carved with a bear, a raven with human head in it's beak and a human head above, on a square base, 23cm high, a...

A Northwest Coast horn spoon, the tapering handle carved with totemic masks, 17.5cm long. Provenance Herbert Reiser, New Quebec Street, London. Dr...

A Hiada silver 'penny' spoon, with incised decoration to the front of the handle, with mask and other symbols, the reverse of the bowl with an eye...

A Northwest Coast basketry doll cradle, wood and fibre, with a fibre and cloth bound cloth doll, 35cm long. Provenance Dr James Spillius, London.

An Inuit carved soapstone otter, with a fish to its side, signed Isapik and with numbers to the underside, 14.5cm high, five other Inuit carved st...

A Inuit carved greenstone figure, of a hunter crouched over his prey with a rope in its mouth, 11cm high, an Inuit soapstone seal, with a textured...

λ An Inuit carved walrus amulet, walrus ivory with pierced suspension hole, baleen eyes and nostrils, 6.8cm long, on a stand. (2) Provenance Princ...

λ A Haida carved bone ornament, depicting a killer whale and a human mask, the top with pierced suspension hole, 12cm long, on a stand. (2) Proven...

λ An Inuit carved bone seated figure of a stargazer, looking upwards with darkened features, with arms flat to the sides, 5.6cm high. Provenance S...

A Northwest Coast harpoon point, bone and iron with rivets and fibre binding, 16cm long, a harpoon point, brass and iron with fibre binding and a ...

A Northwest Coast fish hook, bentwood, bone and fibre, 17cm high and another, similar, 15.5cm high. (2) Provenance Dr James Spillius, London.

λ A Solomon Islands fish hook, Malaita, carved shell with a part ribbed back, turtle shell and fibre, 9cm long. Provenance Dr James Spillius, Lon...

A Solomon Islands fish hook, with a carved shell back and bone hook, with fibre binding, 13.5cm long and a bone hook, the base with two knotches. ...

λ Two Tikopia fish hooks, shell, stone, turtle shell, feathers and fibre, 8.5cm and 9cm long. (2) Provenance Dr James Spillius, London.

A Solomon Islands ornamental bowl, carved wood with black finish and shell inlay, with bonito fish and human torsos supporting and oval bowl, 25cm...

A Solomon Islands model canoe, carved wood with black finish and shell inlay, with incised decoration, 41.5cm long and a Solomon Islands frigate b...

A Solomon Islands bowl, carved wood with black finish and shell inlay, modelled as a frigate bird with a bonito fish in it's beak, 53cm long. Prov...

A Solomon Islands oval bowl, carved wood with black finish and shell inlay, with bonito fish handles on a stem foot, 32.5cm wide and a Solomon Isl...

A Solomon Islands model canoe, carved wood with black finish and shell inlay, with two seated figures at the ends and a bonito on the top, 44.5cm ...

A Solomon Islands carved female figure, ebonised wood, inlaid shell eyes and with arms raised, both with loose rings, her left hand gripping a fur...

A Solomon Islands hand club, carved wood with black finish and shell inlay, of fish form, 51.5cm long. Provenance Dr James Spillius, London.

A Solomon Islands model bonito fish, carved wood with black finish and shell inlay, 54cm long, a Solomon Islands dance club, in the form of a bird...

A Tikopia headrest, Melanesia, carved wood in three parts, the uprights with a ridge of nodules to the outer edge, with two fibre bound supports, ...

A Tikopia headrest, Melanesia, carved wood in three parts, with nodules to the outer edge of the top, on fibre bound bifurcated supports, the unde...

A Solomon Islands feather currency band, bark, feathers, shells, a button and cloth, 10.5cm diameter, four Solomon Islands feather currency ear or...

A Futuna dance paddle, Polynesia, with a shaped rectangular blade with chevron edged recessed panels with white pigment, with a cylindrical handle...

A Samoa club, Polynesia, carved with faceted nodules to one side, a curved barb to the other with incised decoration and inscribed Matafa, 82.5cm ...

A Samoa club, Polynesia, the tapering rhomboid shape blade to a knopped collar and tapering handle, 94cm long. Provenance Dr James Spillius, Londo...

A Pitcairn Island flying fish, carved wood with applied eyes, one fin marked SOUVENIR FROM PITCAIRN ISLAND, on a stand, 29.5cm high. Provenance Dr...

A Massim soul boat, Papua New Guinea, with incised decoration and four figures with their arms supporting their heads, 77cm long. (5) Provenance D...

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