Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities

Two Taino figural amulets Caribbean, circa 1000 - 1500 AD stone, one kneeling with clenched teeth and horizontal tear drop shape eyes, drilled thr...

A Taino figural amulet Dominican Republic, circa 1000 - 1400 AD shell, carved as a head with clenched teeth, recessed eye sockets and headband, wi...

A Taino leafnose bat amulet Dominican Republic, circa 1000 - 1300 AD stone, carved with clenched teeth, an upturned nose, recessed eye sockets and...

A Taino pestle Dominican Republic, circa 1000 - 1500 AD stone, the handle carved a leaning zemi figure, 15.5cm high. Provenance David Bernstein,...

A Taino pestle Dominican Republic, circa 1000 - 1500 AD stone, with a carved bird head and a frog head, to an oval base, 18.4cm high. ...[more]

A Taino pestle Dominican Republic, circa 1000 - 1500 AD stone, carved a crouching zemi figure, tapering to an oval base, 17cm high. Provenance Lo...

A Taino ritual vomit spatula Great Antilles, circa 1000 - 1400 AD curved and carved a skeletal tree frog with enlongated forelimbs and a carved pa...

A Taino ritual vomit spatula Dominican Republic, circa 1000 - 1400 AD bone, curved and carved a crouching Zemi figure, with skeletal features incl...

A Taino ritual vomit stick Greater Antilles, circa 1000 - 1400 AD curved and carved a skeletal crouching lizard and a geometric panel, 30cm long....

A Taino trigonolith Caribbean, circa 1000 - 1500 AD stone, with a carved zemi head to the front with deep recessed eyes and a wide open mouth wit...

A Taino trigonolith Dominican Republic, circa 1000 - 1500 AD red and white mottled stone, carved a crouching zemi figure with recessed eyes, wide ...

Four Taino amulets Caribbean, circa 1000 - 1500 AD stone, two as crouching figures, 3.9cm and 3.2cm high, a bust 3.4cm and a crouching animal, wit...

Two Taino mask amulets Dominican Republic, circa 1000 - 1500 AD shell, 3.3cm and 1.8cm high. (2) Provenance David Bernstein, New York. ...[more]

A Taino amulet Dominican Republic, circa 1000 - 1500 AD clam, carved depicting a crouching deity wearing a headdress, pierced through the neck for...

A Taino figural amulet Dominican Republic, circa 1000 - 1500 AD black stone, carved as a standing figure with hands on abdomen and pierced through...

A Taino figural amulet Dominican Republic, circa 1000 - 1500 AD bone, carved as a curved standing male, with a crested headdress and carved triang...

A Taino shell pendant Dominican Republic, circa 1000 - 1500 AD carved a zemi head with large eyes, clenched teeth and protruding ears, the angled ...

A Taino ceremonial stool duho Santo Domingo, circa 1100 - 1400 AD carved as a male zemi standing of four legs, the head with deep round eyes and w...

A Taino pestle Caribbean, circa 1000 - 1500 AD stone, with a rounded oval base and curved tapering handle, 16.5cm high. Provenance Harmer Johnson ...

A Taino trigonolite Caribbean, circa 1000 - 1500 AD stone, the central tapered column with a rounded end and with an oval depression to one side a...

A Taino trigonolith Dominican Republic, circa 1000 - 1300 AD stone, the central point with three drilled holes each side and with rounded end poin...

A Taino trigonolith Dominican Republic, circa 1000 - 1500 AD stone, with a carved mask to the central point of recessed eyes and a wide mouth, wit...

A Taino grating stone Dominican Republic, circa 1000 - 1500 AD of triangular form with serrated edges, 29cm x 26cm, on a stand. (2) Provenance Da...

A Taino axe head Caribbean, circa 1000 - 1500 AD stone, with a ridge around the base of the handle, 30cm long. Provenance David Bernstein, New Yo...

A Taino mortar Dominican Republic, circa 1000 - 1500 AD stone, carved as a stylised bird with a central recess, 22.5cm long. Provenance Loudmer, ...

A Taino mask Dominican Republic, circa 1000 - 1500 AD stone, with a raised forehead ridge, sunken eyes and bared teeth, 10cm high, on a stand. (2)...

Two Taino axe blades Caribbean stone, with collection numbers A743 and 2342, 24.5cm and 17cm long. (2) Provenance Lord McAlpine of West Green. So...

Three Taino axe blades Caribbean stone, with collection numbers A745, A746, A747, 19cm, 21cm and 21.2cm long. (3) Provenance Lord McAlpine of Wes...

An Aztec skull necklace Mexico, circa 1200 - 1400 AD shell, the fourteen carved skull beads drilled through the sides and backs for attachment, wi...

Twenty one Taino axe blades Caribbean, circa 1000 - 1500 AD stone, 6.6cm - 17.7cm long. (21) Provenance Harmer Johnson Books, New York, 27 Octob...

A Taino circular bowl Dominican Republic, circa 1000 - 1400 AD pottery, the rim with incised linear decoration and two applied zemi busts, 20.3cm ...

A Taino globular bowl Dominican Republic, circa 1000 - 1500 AD pottery, with a relief head to one side and with incised linear decoration to the r...

A collection of Taino pottery heads Dominican Republic fragments from vessels, some with pigment decoration. ...[more]

A Taino mortar Dominican Republic stone, on four feet with a relief zemi figure, a frog and a bar handle, 7cm high. Provenance Bonhams, London, T...

A Chinesco seated figure Mexico, circa 100 BC - 250 AD pottery with red and black glazed decoration, 16,5cm high, a Nayarit standing pottery figu...

A Taino zemi head Caribbean, circa 1200 - 1500 AD stone, with large sunken eyes and a wide open mouth, 18cm high, two Taino stone figures, Caribb...

A collection of Taino pottery heads Dominican Republic fragments from vessels, some with pigment decoration. ...[more]

An Ojibwa bandolier bag Northeast North America coloured glass beads, cotton, cloth and velveteen, with geometric and floral designs, with wool ta...

Two Pima circular basket trays South West North America fibre, the smaller decorated with three birds, 24cm and 29cm diameter. (2) ...[more]

Five North American beadwork fragments coloured glass beads on buckskin and velvet, a horn scoop, three Sioux metal arrow heads, and a copper bowl...

A North American leather and horsehair rattle 23cm long, two Iroquois spoons, the lighter with burnt decoration, a bent birchwood box and cover an...

A Strickland & Co canoe Lakefield, Ontario, Canada cedar, with a brass makers plaque to one side, 488cm long, 84cm wide. Provenance By repute - T...

Richard Sumner (1956 - 2003) Kwakwaka'wakw, Victoria, Canada Bear/Human/Eagle Transformation Box red cedar and opercula, signed with initials RJS ...

A Northwest Coast chest Canada cedar with a hinged cover carved totemic animals within a moulded frame, and to the sides below the sunken handles,...

A Haida panel British Columbia, Canada argillite, carved as a paddle steamer with four seated figures, cabins and a funnel, 19th century, 30.2cm ...

λ λAn Inuit standing female figure probably Baffin Island area walrus ivory, with her hands place on her swollen abdomen, and incised with facial ...

λ λAn Inuit female figure Arctic walrus ivory, modelled standing with labrets under the mouth and with bent arms with her hands on her chest, 7.7c...

An Inuit figure Arctic whalebone, carved standing and wearing a parka, 36.7cm high, on a base. (2) ...[more]

An Inuit doll Arctic of a male figure with a painted resin head and wearing a seal fur parka and trousers and knee high leather boots, 52.5cm high...

λAn Inuit model of a Polar Bear Arctic soapstone, 18.5cm long, an Inuit steatite model of a Walrus, with a bone tusk and a replaced wood tusk, ...

An Inuit standing model of a polar bear Arctic whalebone, 31.5cm long, 13.3cm high. ...[more]

An Inuit fishing net Alaska fibre, wood and antler, 50cm x 18cm, an antler harness mount, 15.5cm long and four bone awls. (6) ...[more]

λ λAn Inuit toggle Arctic walrus ivory, with polar bear head terminals and with carved linear decoration to one side above the oval hole and on th...

A Plains stone headed club North America of navette shape with hide mount and covered wood shaft, 80.5cm long. ...[more]

A Yupik mask Alaska with a fibre bound bent cane and with pigment decoration, 42.5cm high. ...[more]

A Diquis gold pendant Costa Rica, probably circa 800 - 1500 AD modelled as an eagle, with a suspension loop to the back, 7.4cm high, 61.3 grams. ...

A Tairona tumbaga pendant Colombia, circa 900 - 1600 AD modelled as a standing figure with a headdress and a bird, the back with two suspension l...

A Diquis tumbaga pendant Costa Rica, circa 800 - 1500 AD modelled as a standing male figure, wearing a headdress and holding a staff in each hand,...

A Panama tumbaga pendant Western Peninsula, circa 800 - 1500 AD modelled as a caiman with three bars to its back with gold discs, a stylised crust...

Two Chimu gold figural pendants Peru, circa 900 - 1420 AD hollow, standing with their hands placed on their abdomens and pierced through the neck ...