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Tribal Art - an African axe, fan shaped blade with notched ridge, the hooked head studded, sliightly curved shaft, 53cm long, possibly Shona or Chokwe, early 20th century; another, bulbous head above a three-ring socle, engraved with chequered bands and geometric motifs, knop pommel, 46cm long, early 20th century (2)
Tribal Art - an Australian Aboriginal watilikiri or beaked boomerang, the head decorated with white pigment, probably Warramunga tribe, 76cm long Reference: Cameron Stone, George, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor (sic) In All Countries and in All Times, Jack Brussel (New York 1961), p.664, fig.851
Tribal Art auction catalogues; Christie's, Bonhams and Sotheby's, including Melanesian & Polynesian Art and Oceanic Art from the James Hooper Collection, June 19, 1979 and June 17, 1980; the collection of the late Josef Mueller, Part II, March 20, 1979; and various Antiquity auction catalogues. (a lot)
Australian Aboriginal works of art To include a wooden spear thrower, being of traditional dished elongated elliptical form, approx. 84cm long, a boomerang of traditional shape with fluted domed edge to one side and opposing adzed to the other, approx. 68cm long, a wooden vessel, of traditional dished wooden form bearing traditional poker work decoration to the outside, these vessels were predominately used by the tribal women to carry food and then later as a digging tool, approx. 47cm long, a handcrafted carved wooden object with poker work decoration, being of lizard form, approx. 42cm long, and a wooden hunting stick, aka killing stick, the curved heavy object with grooved carving to one side and adzed flat underside, these vicious objects were thrown horizontally at a target, sometimes up to 200m (650ft), much like a skipping stone on the water surface they could bounce off the ground to reach and break the prey's legs, slowing or stopping it, approx. 75cm long. (5) Provenance: according to the vendor's family history, these items were acquired from the Hermanburg Mission, Australia, during the 1960s.
Australian Aboriginal works of art To include a wooden spear thrower, being of traditional dished elongated elliptical form, approx. 84cm long, a boomerang of traditional shape with fluted domed edge to one side and opposing adzed to the other, approx. 68cm long, a wooden vessel, of traditional dished wooden form bearing traditional poker work decoration to the outside, these vessels were predominately used by the tribal women to carry food and then later as a digging tool, approx. 47cm long, a handcrafted carved wooden object with poker work decoration, being of lizard form, approx. 42cm long, and a wooden hunting stick, aka killing stick, the curved heavy object with grooved carving to one side and adzed flat underside, these vicious objects were thrown horizontally at a target, sometimes up to 200m (650ft), much like a skipping stone on the water surface they could bounce off the ground to reach and break the prey's legs, slowing or stopping it, approx. 75cm long. (5) Provenance: according to the vendor's family history, these items were acquired from the Hermanburg Mission, Australia, during the 1960s.
Beckwith (C.) & Angela Fisher. - African Ceremonies, 2 vol., New York, 1999 § Treasures of the Ancient Andes, text in Japanese, Tokyo, 1980, illustrations, many colour, original cloth or boards, the first with slip-case, the second with box ; and 10 others on tribal and primitive art, mostly catalogues, 4to (13)
20th-21st century AD. A mixed group of exhibition catalogues and magazines on artistic themes including Imagines Imperatorum, Sotheby's African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art catalogue (1), Christie's Watercolours, Drawings and Prints catalogue (1), Sotheby's Martin Bell catalogue (1), Sotheby's Preview (1), Sun Asian Stamps and Philatelic History catalogue (1), Bloomsbury Erotica catalogue (1), Bloomsbury Coins, Medals, Banknotes and Tribal Art (1), Bloomsbury Bibliophile (1), Numisart Antike Kunstobjekte (1), Bonhams Chines Art (1), Bonhams Medals, Banknotes and Coins (1), Spink Derek Clifford Lacquer collection catalogue (1), Spink Insider magazine (1), Sotheby's Irish Art catalogue (1), Financial History Magazine (1), Royal Academy of Arts magazine (2), Tate magazine (1), Anthony Frost catalogue (1), Art Quarterly magazine (1), Alain Bertrand catalogue (1), Apollo magazine (3), Celator magazine (2), Millner Manolatos catalogue (2), Alan Davie catalogue (1), E&R Cyzer Modern Masters catalogue (1), Danish Journal Hans Christian Anderson catalogue signed by the actor Tommy Steel, 1993 (1). 11.9 kg Ex Steinberg collection; acquired London art market, 1960s-1970s. [32, No Reserve] Mainly fine condition.
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