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A set of six framed & glazed Papua New Guinea white metal tribal tokens & sculptures. The lot comprising a halved Kundu drum with black enamel detailing; a Bilum plant fibre style bag; a Lakatoi double-hulled sailing watercraft; a ceremonial axe; an enamelled tribal tool; and a tribal mask. All professionally framed with silk backing, velvet mount inside a hardwood box frame with glass front. White metal with surface test indicating silver. Each case measures approx. 5cm x 35cm x 6.5cm.
Tribal Art and the Eclectic Interior - a Papua New Guinea bowl, carved as a crocodile, cowrie shell eyes, 73cm long, Sepik River; another carved crocodile; a drum; a female figure; another figure, holding a bowl, mother of pearl inlaid, 43cm high; another (6)Provenance: Collected in Papua New Guinea during the 1970's. Consigned boxed with a special issue of the Papua New Guinea Post Courier from September 1979
A mixed collection of 20th century African tribal and South American items and other to include; various knives, a set of scales that fold into club shaped wooden holder, fabric belts, one with attached Jambaya dagger (circa 1980s - Yemen), a white metal, stone and gilt metal belt with attached chatelaine, various fabrics, drum, wip and clothing including a large leather tassle like dress and a Native American/South American 20th century waistcoat, and a cased set of Medieval shield shaped Horse Harness pendants (Circa 1250-1400) (13 in total) and others (2 boxes)
A Kisanji with gourd, wood and iron lamellophone, with gourd (which works as a resonance box), carved decoration "Geometric motifs", Angolan - Tshokwe, 20th C. (mid), missing a lamella, minor defects, major patina wear, purchased in Mucussueje (Moxico) on 18-3-1971. Notes: Provenance: Collection of Engineer Elísio Romariz dos Santos Silva Fig. 4 in the notes printed "A Escultura Tribal dos Povos Banto" updated version, from 1995, of the work with the title "A Escultura Negro-Africana Vista à Luz da Filosofia Banta", which the author presented in 1971, for the XXII Floral Games of Huambo Town Hall (former Nova Lisboa) - Angola, p. 12. Original work available at https://memoriaafrica.ua.pt/Library/ShowImage.aspx?q=/bchuambo/bchuambo-026&p=10, consulted on March 16, 2023 at 11:16. Item number 148, mentioned in the notebook of the collector «Angola - Arte Negra, Relação e descrição das peças», identified in it as «Kakolondondo»:"Decoration by incisions - rectangle with 3 motifs; the central one is reminiscent of a stylized "mucupela" 2-stroke drum. Above the rectangle are three circumferential arches. [...] Purchased in Mucussueje [Moxico], on 18.3.71 [...]. According to José Redinha "The kisanjis «lungando", «muiemba», «kakolondondo», «tchakel» and «saso» usually apply sounding boards made of gourds." - cf. REDINHA, José - "Campanha Etnográfica ao Tchiboco (Alto-Tchicapa) - Anotações e Documentação gráfica", volume 2. In "Diamag - Publicações Culturais nº 19". Lisboa: Companhia de Diamantes de Angola - Serviços Culturais Dundo - Lunda - Angola - Museu do Dundo, 1955, p. 20. Other kisanjis are represented in DIAS, Jorge (direc.) - "Escultura Africana no Museu de Etnologia do Ultramar". Lisboa: Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, 1968, s/p, nº 158; in SANTOS, Soraia Ferreira (coord.) - "A Herança dos Povos do Sul de Angola". Lubango: Museu Regional da Huíla, 2018, p. 57, nºs inv. 2003.R.247 and 2002.R.252; in FELIX, Marc Leo. - "100 Peoples of Zaire and Their Sculpture: The Handbook". Brussels: Zaire Basin Art History Research Foundation, 1987, p. 97, nº 15; and in BASTIN, Marie-Louise. "La sculpture Tshokwe”. Arcueil: Alain et Françoise Chaffin, 1982, p. 244, nº 167., Dim. - (quissanje) 11,6 x 7,3 x 0,5 cm
A Gabon drummer figurestanding with his right leg raised and with his foot on the heel rail of the drum, his hands placed on the hide skin of the solid drum, with inset carved bone teeth and eyes, with a nailed hide coiffure,66cm high, on a base.ProvenanceA civil engineer attached to the Spanish Delegation to Rio Muni until 1933.Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.Christie's, London, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 129.
Tribal Art - an African softwood drum, hide skin, boldly carved in relief with a waterfowl on an incised geometric frieze, circular base, 42cm high, possibly Igbo, Nigeria; a gourd rattle; an ostrich egg, painted with tribal figure; an African brass amulet, 17.5cm wide; a terracotta gourd shaped vessel; etc
A SMALL BRONZE RAIN DRUM, DONG SON CULTURE, VIETNAM, CA. 500 BC TO 300 ADThe round drum with a spreading base, the body composed of straight sides below a bulbous section, finely cast with geometric designs and set with two pairs of loop handles on either side, surmounted by the slightly concave top. The bronze with a fine, naturally grown, solid patina with malachite encrustations.Provenance: An old private collection in France. Acher Eskenasy, Paris, France, acquired from the above in 2001. LP Collection Paris, France, acquired from the above. Acher Eskenasy is a noted French scholar and collector of Asian and tribal art. Major works previously owned by him are now in important collections and museums, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Musee du Quai Branly in Paris. Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age. Extensive wear, minor losses, dents, nicks, scratches, signs of weathering and erosion, and encrustations.Weight: 2,487 g Dimensions: Height 15.8 cm, Diameter 19.9 cm Dong Son (named for Dong Son, a village in Thanh Hoa, Vietnam) was a Bronze Age culture in ancient Vietnam centered at the Red River Valley of northern Vietnam from 1000 BC until the first century AD. Vietnamese historians attribute it to the states of Văn Lang and Âu Lạc. Its influence spread to other parts of Southeast Asia, including Maritime Southeast Asia, throughout the first millennium BC. The culture long remained a mystery to western archaeologists, and it was known only through its bronze objects, many of which were taken from burial sites. Dong Son bronze objects were exhibited in Europe for a century before their original location was even determined, and several theories and speculations over the dating methodologies of the culture continue to this day. Bronze rain drums were invented by the Dong Son culture and produced from about 600 BC or earlier until the third century AD. Ranging in height from a few inches to over six feet, up to four feet in diameter, and often of considerable weight, the drums are one of the culture's most astounding examples of metalworking. Examples produced in Vietnam, in addition to works made locally, have been found in south China and throughout mainland and island Southeast Asia. The discovery of Dong Son drums in New Guinea is seen as proof of trade connections - spanning at least a thousand years - between this region and the technologically advanced societies of Java and China.Bronze drums are still being used ceremoniously in Southeast Asia by the Yi people, Zhuang people, Miao people and Qabiao people in northern Vietnam and southern China. They are generally struck in the center with a soft mallet and on the side with a wood or bamboo stick. Among the ethnic Vietnamese, they are still used in some rituals, such as those of the Hung kings, but are rarely used as a musical instrument anymore. In Thailand, the Dong Son drum is also used in some ceremonies, where it is called the Mahorathuek.Literature comparison: Compare a related bronze miniature drum with four frogs, also dated ca. 500 BC to 300 AD, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 2000.284.57.
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