Auction: March 24, 2024

Lot #304: Ethnographic Object Assortment

Approximately (55) items, African items including a Senufo fire-spitter helmet mask, a Nkisi Nkondi nail fetish figure, a Mende helmet mask, (2) Yoruba ibeji twin figures, a Mossi painted headdress, a fabric clad figure in an acrylic case and an equestrian figure (all of carved wood), a ceramic Ife style head on stand, a Yoruba beaded fly-whisk handle, a Yoruba copper alloy ochusi chained double staff heads on acrylic stand and (15) figural lost-wax cast copper alloy Ashanti gold weights, some on acrylic stands (some detached stands present), Himalayan items including (5) Nepalese carved wood purba ritual daggers, (2) matching copper alloy dragon motif candlesticks, a copper alloy vajra handled censer, (2) Tibetan mixed metal repousse wall plaques, Northern India items including a manuscript book, a copper alloy avian motif lidded oil lamp, a painted wood shrine, a wood box having a miniature painting on lid and a chromolithograph in a metal frame, Latin American items including a Guatemalan carved and painted wood devil mask having attached multicolor woven costume, (2) votive images behind glass in metal frames having semi-circular crests and chased decoration and a metal framed Spanish language printed holy card; together with an unidentified earthenware two-handled jug, a lithographed tin Ben Bey cigar box and a Superior solid rubber type set in lithographed tin box

Approximate Shipping Weight:

66 pounds