LUBA CARYATID STOOL, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO This stool embodies all of the qualities of a royal Luba stool, the figure has carved wooden conical nails at the back of her coiffure in place of tacks, she has a crossshaped Kaposhi hairstyle, once reserved for Luba chiefs and their wives. The female figure with her curvilinear legs symbolises the importance of women in Luba society, as it was women who brought new life and as a result held power and spiritual secrets. Luba objects were usually owned by Luba male nobility and this stool was always a symbolic seat of power rather than a place to sit, village repair 36cm high PROVENANCEWalter Dehne, an employee of Woermann-Linie, Hamburg, 1898"Stools are among the most important symbols of Luba kingship, as they are for many African peoples. Not only is the Luba king’s palace referred to as a “seat of power", but seating is a metaphor for the many levels and layers of hierarchy that characterize Luba royal prerogatives. There are two principal types of Luba stools. Almost all of those that have entered Western collections are caryatid stools, supported by single or occasionally double female figures. Stools are such potent emblems that they are often kept secretly in a different village from their possessor’s home, to diminish the possibility of their theft or desecration.As the receptacle for a king’s spirit, it is not primarily a functional seat as such. The infrequency with which these stools are viewed reinforces the idea that they are intended not for human eyes (at least not primarily), but for those of the spirit world”Roberts, M.N. and Roberts, A. F., 1996. Memory: Luba Art and the Making of History, Prestel, Munich
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Hornby 0 gauge rolling stock including a RS687, American Caboose, N.Y.C. livery no.2528, (Tank Car 'American Type' box); a RS 681 Snow Plough yellow & blue, boxed; RS 690 Banana Van 'Blue Label Fyffes Brand', yellow & red, boxed; a 'BP Motor Spirit' Oil Tank Wagon, gold large letter 'BP', cream, 'Castrol' Tank Wagon box; (4)
Books relating to North American Indians including Charles Miles, Indian & Eskimo Artifacts of North America, 1963 and Vincent Scully, Pueblo, Mountain, Village, Dance, 1975. (a lot) Provenance Dr Alan Black Collection.LiteratureRobert M. Utley. The Lance & the Shield, The Life and Times of Sitting Bull, 1993;Robert H. Lowe. Indians of the Plains, 1963;George Catlin. Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians, 1973;Angie Debo. A History of the Indians of the United States, 1970;George Catlin. Life among the Indians, 1903;W. H. Davenport Adams. The Hunter and the Trapper in North America, or, Romantic Adventures in Field and Forest, 1877;Hilary Stewart. Looking at Totem Poles, 1993;Janet C. Berlo and Ruth B. Phillips. Native North American Art, 1998;Christian F. Feest. Native Arts of North America, 1992;Karl Bodmer. The American Indian;Ronald P. Koch. Dress Clothing of the Plains Indians, 1977;Virginia More Roediger. Ceremonial Costumers of the Pueblo Indians,1961;Dee Brown. An Indian History of the American West Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee, 1972;Frank Waters. Book of the Hopi, 1978;Paul Johnson. A History of the American People, 1997;Stan Padilla (compiled and edited by). A Natural Education, Native American Thoughts and Ideas, 1992;Museum of Northern Arizona. Native Peoples of the Colorado Plateau, 1992;Chief Seattle. How can one sell the air? Chief Seattles Vision, 1992;Thomas Page (text by). The Civilisation of the American Indians, 1979;Impact. Time Among the Ancient, 33 Postcards;John C. Ewers. Blackfeet Crafts, 1986;Carrie A. Lyford. Ojibwa Crafts, 1982;Gladys A. Reichard. Weaving a Navajo Blanket, 1974;Vine Deloria Jr. and the Critique of Anthropology. Thomas Biolsi and Larry J. Zimmerman (edited by). Indians & Anthropologists,1997;John C. Ewers (editor). Indian Art in Pipestone, George Catlin’s Portfolio in the British Museum, 1979;David W. Penney. North American Indian Art, 2004;David Morrison. The Diamond Jenness Collections from Bering Strait, 1991;William Wildschut and John C. Ewers. Crow Indian Beadwork, a descriptive and historical study, 1985;William C. Orchard. The Technique of Porcupine Quill Decoration among the Indians of North America, 1971;Carrie A. Lyford. Quill and Beadwork of the Western Sioux, 1982;Robert H. Lowie. Indians of the Plains, 1985;William Wildschut and John C. Ewers. Crow Indian Beadwork, a descriptive and historical study, 1959;J. C. H. King. Smoking Pipes of the North American Indian, 1977;Jake Page. In the Hands of the Great Spirit, the 20,000 year history of the American Indians, 2003;Carl Waldman. Atlas of the North American Indian, 1985;Michael Johnson. The Native Tribes of North America, A Concise Encyclopaedia;M. G. Johnson and C. F. Taylor. Early Warrior Costume of the Sioux and Blackfeet, London: English Westerners Society 1983;John Anson Warner. The Life & Art of the North American Indian, 1975;Colin F. Taylor Ph. D (editorial consultant). Native American Arts & Crafts, 1995;Smithsonian. All Roads are Good, Native Voices on Life and Culture, 1994;Tom Hill and Richard W. Hill Sr (edited by). Creation’s Journey, Native American Identity and Belief, 1994;Peter Bolz and Hans-Ulrich Sanner. Native American Art, The Collections of the Ethnological Museum Berlin, 1999;Colin F. Taylor Ph. D. The Plains Indians, a cultural and historical view of the North American plains tribes of the pre-reservation period, 1997;Glenn E. Markoe. Vestiges of a Proud Nation, The Ogden B. Read Northern Plains Indian Collection, 1986;Norman Bancroft-Hunt and Werner Forman. The Indians of the Great Plains, 1981;Smithsonian. Spirit of a Native Place, Building the National Museum of the American Indian, 2004;Nancy-Lou Patterson. Canadian Native Art, 1973;W. Haberland. Art of the World, North America, 1968;Bertha P. Dutton. Indians of the American southwest, 1975;Vincent Scully. Pueblo, Moutain, Village, Dance, 1975;The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Masterworks from the Museum of the American Indian,1973;Jim Schoppert. Instrument of Change, Retrospective Exhibition, 1997;T.R. Fehrenbach. Comanches, The Destruction of People, 1975;Ann T. Walton. After the Buffalo were gone, the Louis Warren Hill, SR., Collection of Indian Art, 1985;Peter T. Furst and Jill L. Furst. North American Indian Art, 1982;Sarah Peabody Turnbaugh and William A. Turnbaugh. The Nineteenth Century American Collector: A Rhode Island Perspective, selections from the Museum of Primitive Art and Culture, 1991;Valérie Chaussonet. Crossroads Alaska, Native Cultures of Alaska and Siberia, 1995;Father Peter J. Powell. To Honour the Crow People, 1988;Ted J. Brasser. “Bo’jou, Neejee!”, Profiles of Canadian Indian Art, 1976;Leroy H. Appleton. American Indian Design and Decoration, 1971;Charles Miles. Indian & Eskimo Artifacts of North America;(60)
Books and magazines relating to North American Indians. Provenance Dr Alan Black Collection.LiteratureWilliam S. Laughlin. Aleuts: Survivors of the Bering Land Bridge, 1980;G. H. S. Bushnell & Adrian Digby. Ancient American Pottery;William W. Fitzhugh and Valérie Chaussonnet (edited by). Anthropology of the North Pacific Rim, 1994;John Gattuso (edited by). Native America, Insight Guides, 1991;Lar Hothem. North American Indian Artifacts, 1980;Ruth M. Underhill. Red Man’s America, 1971;George Cantor. North American Indian Landmarks, A Travellers guide, 1993;Paula Gunn Allen. The Sacred Hoop, Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions, 1992;William C. Ketchum, Jr. The Art of the Golden West, 1996;Royal B. Hassrick. The Colourful Story of North American Indians, 1975;Josepha Sherman. Indian Tribes of North America, 1996;Dan Lacy. The Lost Colony, 1972;George P. Horse Capture, Anne Vitart, Michel Waldberg, and Richard West, Jr. (contributions by). Robes of Splendor, Native North American Painted Buffalo Hides, 1993;The University of British Columbia. Northwest Coast Indian Artifacts from the H. R. MacMillan Collections, in the Museum of Anthropology, 1975;The University of British Columbia. Indian Masterpieces from the Walter and Marianne Koerner Collection, in the Museum of Anthropology, 1975;Beverly Gordon and Melanie Herzog. American Indian Art, The Collecting Experience (catalogue), 1988;Alan & Gill Bridgewater. Carving Totem Poles and Masks, 1991;Nigel Cawthorne. The Art of Native North America, 1997;David M. Fawcett and Lee A. Callander. Native American Painting, Selections from the Museum of the American Indian, 1982;J. C. H. King. Thunderbird and Lightning, Indian Life in Northeastern North America 1600-1900, 1982;H. P. Mera. Pueblo Designs. 1970;Ellen Woods. American Indian Artifacts, How to identify, evaluate and care for your collection, 1997;Geoffrey Turner. Indians of North America, 1979;Franz Boas. Primitive Art, 1955;Jason Hook and Martin Pegler. To Live and Die in the West, The American Indian Wars, 1999;Eagle/Walking Turtle. Indian America, A Traveler’s Companion, 1989;Marz and Nono Minor. The American Indian Craft Book, 1978;Heritage House. White Slaves of the Nootka, Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt while a Captive of the Nootka Indians on Vancouver Island – 1803-05, 1987;John G. Neihardt. Black Elk Speaks, the Life story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux as told to John G. Neihardt (Flaming Rainbow), 1961;Charles S. Rhyne. Expanding the Circle, the Art of guud san glans, Robert Davidson, 1998;Josepha Sherman. The First Americans, Spirit of the Land and the People, 1996;American Heritage Publishing, Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. (editor in charge). The American Heritage book of Indians, Introduction by John F. Kennedy, President of the United States, 1961;Rayna Green with Melanie Fernandez. The British Museum Encyclopaedia of Native North America, 1999;David M. Jones and Brian L. Molyneaux. Mythology of the American Nations, An Illustrated encyclopaedia of the gods, heroes, spirits, sacred places, rituals and ancient beliefs of the North American Indian, Inuit, Aztec, Inca and Maya nations, 2004;Virginia Vidler. American Indian Antiques, Art and Artifacts of the Northeast, 1760 – 1900, 1976;Wilson Duff. Images stone b.c. Thirty Centuries of Northwest Coast Indian Sculpture, 1975;Joseph P. Donnelly, S.J. (translated and introduced by). Indian Life in the Rocky Mountains, 1840 – 1847, Wilderness Kingdom, The journals and paintings of Father Nicholas Point, 1968;Herman J. Viola. The Indian Legacy of Charles Bird King, 1976;Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography. Text by T. Ganiushkina, R. Razumovskaya, I. Shavrina, an album presenting a variety of objects providing an insight into the history, home life, religious beliefs and applied art of various peoples i.e. Tlingit, Aleutians, Eskimos, Papuans and others. 1973;Norman Feder. American Indian Art (2);National Geographic. Vol. 185, No.6 June 1994;National Geographic. Vol. 180, No.4 October 1991;Gilbert T. Vincent (text by). Masterpieces of American Indian Art from the Eugene and Clare Thaw collection, 1995;The Studio (magazine) February 1941;Richard Conn. Native American Art, in the Denver Art Museum, 1979;Time-Life Books (editors of) and Benjamin Capps (text by). The Old West, The Indians, 1973;Davis Thomas and Karin Ronnefeldt. People of the First Man, Life among the Plains Indians in their final days of glory, 1976;M Gidley. With One Sky Above Us, Life on an Indian Reservation at the Turn of the Century, 1979;Douglas Congdon-Martin (text by and photography with). Lelooska The Traditional Art of the Mask, Carving a Transformation Mask, 1996;Susan Bradley (edited by). A Guide to the Storage, Exhibition and Handling of Antiquities, Ethnographia and Pictorial Art, British Museum Occasional Paper No. 66, 1990;(50)
Books relating to North American Indians. Provenance Dr Alan Black Collection.LiteratureDean Snow. The American Indians, their archaeology and prehistory, 1976;Anna Lee Walters. The Spirit of Native America, Beauty and Mysticism in American Indian Art, 1989;Don & Debra McQuiston. Dolls & Toys of Native America, 1995;Susan M. Pearce. Eskimo Carving, 1985;Colin F. Taylor (Editorial Consultant). Native Americans, The Indigenous people of North America, 1991;Geoffrey Turner (Pitt Rivers Museum University of Oxford). Hair Embroidery in Siberia and North America, 1976;Janet Catherine Berlo, Bruce Bernstein, T. J. Brasser, N. Scott Momaday, Allen Wardwell, W. Richard West. Native Paths, American Indian Art from the Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker, 1998;William W. Fitzhugh and Aron Crowell. Crossroads of Continents, Cultures of Siberia and Alaska, 1988;Barbara Isaac (edited by). Hall of the North American Indian, Change and Continuity, 1990;Jonathan Batkin (compiled and edited by). Splendid Heritage, Masterpieces of Native American Art from the Masco Collection, 1995;Susan E. Harless (edited by). Native Arts of the Columbia Plateau, The Doris Swayze Bounds Collection, 1998;Leslie Drew & Douglas Wilson. Argillite, Art of the Haida, 1980;J. C. H. King. Artificial Curiosities from the Northwest Coast of America, Native American Artefacts in the British Museum collected on the Third Voyage of Captain James Cook and Aquired through Sir Joseph Banks, 1981;John C. Ewers. Plains Indian Sculpture, A Tradition Art from America’s Heartland, 1986;Lar Hotem. Collectors Guide to Indian Pipes, Identification and Values, 1999;A. M. Leskov and H. Müller-Beck (Hrsg.). Artische WALJÄGER vor 3000 Jahren, 1993;Bill Holm. Spirit and Ancestor, A Century of Northwest Coast Indian Art at the Burke Museum, 1987;David W. Penney. Art of the American Indian Frontier, 1992;Seattle Art Museum. The Spirit Within, Northwest Coast Native Art from the John H. Hauberg Collection, 1995;Lená Taku Wasté. These Good Things, Selections from the Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection of Native American Art, 1997;Richard Conn. A Persistant Vision, Art of the Reservation Days, 1986;Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College. Patterns of Life, Patters of Art, 1987;Richard Conn. Circles of the World, 1982;Jane Alison (edited and produced by). Native Nations, Journeys in American Photography, 1998;Lar Hothem. North American Indian Ornamental & Ceremonial Artifacts, 1990;J. G. E. Smith, Museum of the American Indian. Arctic Art: Eskimo Ivory, 1980;Barbara A. Hail and Kate C. Duncan. Out of the North, The Subarctic Collection of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, 1989;Caroline Crabtree and Pam Stallebrass. Beadwork, A World Guide, 2002;Theodore Brasser. Native American Clothing, An Illustrated History, 2009;Barbara A. Hail. Hau, Kóla! The Plains Indian Collection of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, 1980;David. W. Penney. Native American Art, 1994;(31)
Books relating to North American Indians including costume, designs, history, crafts and Sacred Circles exhibition catalogue. (41) Provenance Dr Alan Black Collection.LiteraturePaul E. Kennedy, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, North American Indian Colouring Book, 1971;Maria Naylor (edited by). Authentic Indian Designs, 1975;Richard C. Schneider. Crafts of the North American Indians, A Craftsman’s manual, 1972;John Mack (edited by). Masks, the Art of Expression, 1994;Michael A. Weiner. Earth Medicine-Earth Foods, Plant Remedies, Drugs, and Natural foods of the North American Indians, 1972;W. Ben Hunt. Indian Crafts and Lore, 1973;W. M. Bray, E. H. Swanson, I. S. Farrington. The Ancient Americas, 1989;Cyril B. Courville. Southwest Museum Leaflets, Trade Tomahawks, 1963;Hilary Stewart. Totem Poles, 1990;Geoffrey C. Ward. The West, An Illustrated History, 1996;Peter L. Macnair, Alan L. Hoover and Kevin Neary. The Legacy, Tradition and Innovation in Northwest Coast Indian Art, 1984;Eva Wilson. North American Indian Designs, British Museum Pattern Books, 1984;J. C. H. King. First Peoples First Contacts, Native Peoples of North America, 1999;Joanna Cohan Scherer with Jean Burton Walker. Indians, Contemporary photographs of North American Indian Life 1847-1929, 1974;Hilary Stewart. Cedar, Tree of Life to the Northwest Coast Indians, 1984;Josephine Paterek. Encyclopaedia of American Indian Costume, 1994;Dan L. Monroe, Richard Conn, Richard W. Hill Sr, Suzan Shown Harjo and Jon R. Grimes (exhibition curators). Gifts of the Spirit, works by Nineteenth Century & Contemporary Native American Artists, an exhibition in the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, 1996-1997;Natalie Tobert (editor). Feet of Ingenuity, A Catalogue of Footwear, 1993;Karen Duffek. A Guide to Buying Contemporary Northwest Coast Indian Arts, 1983;Fritz Scholder. An Intimate Look, 2008;Ralph W. Andrews. Indian Primitive, Northwest Coast Indians of the Former Days;The Detroit Institute of Arts. Art of the American Indian Frontier, a Portfolio, 1995;Frances Densmore. How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine & Crafts, 1974;J. C. H. King. Portrait Masks from the Northwest Coast of America, 1979;Hilary Stewart. Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast, 1979;Colin F. Taylor. Native American Weapons, 2001;National Museums of Canada. The Covenant Chain, Indian Ceremonial and Trade Silver, 1980;Walker Art Center, Indian Art Association, The Minneapolis Institute of Art. American Indian Art: Form and Tradition, 1972; Christian F. Feest (edited by). Studies in American Indian Art, A Memorial Tribute to Norman Feder, 2001;Colin F. Taylor. Native American Hunting and Fighting Skills, 2003;Honolulu Academy of Arts. Of Pride and Spirit, North American Indian Art from a Private Collection in Hawaii, 1981;Martha Black. Bella Bella, A Season of Heiltsuk Art, 1997;Lillian A. Ackerman (edited by). A Song to the Creator, Traditional Arts of Native American Women of the Plateau, 1995;Arts Council. Sacred Circles, Two Thousand Years of North American Indian Art, 1976;Frederick E. Hoxie (editor). Encyclopaedia of North American Indians;Colin McEvedy. The Penguin Atlas of North American History to 1870, 1988;James Austin Hanson. Metal Weapons, Tools, and Ornaments of the Teton Dakota Indians, 1975;Michael G Johnson. American Woodlan Indians, 2003;Akicita. Early Plains and Woodlands Indian Art from the collection of Alexander Acevedo, 1983;R. Gabor. Iroquois Reprints, Costume of the Iroquois, 1983;C. A. Lyford. Iroquois Reprints, Iroquois Crafts, 1984;Colin F. Taylor. Buckskin & Buffalo, the Artistry of the Plains Indians, 1998;Richard Conn. Robes of White Shell and Sunrise, Personal Decorative Arts of the Native American, 1974;(41)
A George V silver and glass spirit hip flask, spirit level aperture with locking cap and removable beaker with gilt interior, by Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Co Ltd, hallmarks London 1912, height 12.5cm Very good original condition, no damage or restoration, cap has a few dents on the top and body has a couple of smaller dents on corners, lightly surface scratched all over, cup has engraved initials P.L-P, gilt interior of cup is bright, hallmarks are rubbed.
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