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Ethnographica: a Zulu hardwood knobkerrie, 75cm long.

Ethnographica: a 20th century South African hardwood knobkerrie, 37cm long.

Ethnographica: a Fijian throwing club, or 'Ula Tavatava', with multiple tally marks to shaft and chevron carved grip, 41cm long.

Ethnographica: a Fijian carved hardwood sali war club, 101cm long.

Quantity of native carved hardwood canoe paddles and other items of ethnographica

Ethnographica: Austral Islands (French Polynesia) paddle, probably mid 19th century, the pommel (hand-carved using shark teeth) with eight stylised nio mango masks, some retaining two short 'horns' to forehead, over pierced openwork scallop and shark tooth frieze above intricately carved shaft with dog tooth and lozenge decoration, flanking a medial frieze of sunburst lozenges, to a fig-shaped oar or paddle, the reverse with further fine bands of x, lozenge, dog tooth and wave decoration flanking a carved central ridge, the face with plainer vertical bands of x and dog tooth decoration, the paddle head 18.5cm wide x 31.5cm high, 98.5cm long overall, 568g approx Local private collection, North Somerset. By repute - brought back from the Austral Islands by the grandfather of the current owner, who served in the Navy. It is thought that these paddles were mainly made for ceremonial dance purposes. For an Austral Islands chieftain's staff (previously used as a curtain pole in a cottage in Frome, Somerset!) exhibiting six nio mango masks, sold in these rooms for £15,500, see 13th June 2024 sale, lot 189, where cited: Literature: Mack, Charles W., 'Polynesian Art at Auction 1965-1980', 1982 Hall, Henry Usher, Woodcarvings of the Austral Islands [Penn Museum Journal] Read, Sir C. H., “On the Origin and Sacred Character of Certain Ornaments of the South-Eastern Pacific” [Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 21, 1891-1892]

Ethnographica: Four West African carved wood tribal figures, 20th century, including two Kota people of Gabon Mbulu Ngulu guardian figures, each decorated with applied copper panels and copper wire, the largest height 39cm. (4)

Ethnographica Interest: A collection of African tribal figures and others, to include; three carved ebony busts of Masai people, the tallest 38cm, a carved horn comb and spoon, large carved and painted mask, hardwood walking stick, carved African figures and three Tongan carved Tiki. (14) 

Ethnographica: Three West African carved wood tribal masks, 20th century, the longest a wall hanging mask with painted decoration, another mask with articulated jaw, the largest height 63.5cm. (3) Condition note: one mask with piece of plum to head fractured but present.

Ethnographica: Three West African carved wood tribal masks, 20th century, two with cowry shell, raffia and painted decoration, the largest height 51cm. (3)

Ethnographica: Three West African carved wood tribal masks, 20th century, two with painted decoration, the largest height 41cm. (3)

Ethnographica: Three West African carved wood tribal masks, 20th century, all with painted decoration, the largest height 42.5cm. (3)

A TIBETAN THANGKA OF TSONGKHAPA AND THE REFUGE FIELD, TSHOGS ZHING18TH CENTURYWith Tsongkhapa seated in the centre wearing a pandita hat, his right hand in vitarkamudra and holding an alms bowl in his left hand, surrounded by a hierarchical arrangement of Buddhas, bodhisattvas, protective deities and other figures, with the Panchen Lama Incarnation Lineage above, Buddha Vajradhara at the top and depictions of Mount Sumeru and the Four Continents and the Seven Jewels of Royal Power to the bottom left and right, with lines of Tibetan inscription below and further to the reverse, 77cm x 47cm.Provenance: from an English private collection, with a copy of an invoice for Fine Antiquities Ethnographica, The Old Drury, 187 Drury Lane, London, dated 20th December 1986.Cf. The Rubin Art Museum, accession no. F1997.41.7 (Himalayan Art Resources no. 571) for a related 18th century example. See also the Tibet House Museum, New Delhi, for an 18th century block print image with the same inscription to the bottom (Himalayan Art Resources no. 74089).The Field of Accumulation or Refuge Field, tshogs zhing is a format of Buddhist painting that arranges all of the teachers and deities of a particular tradition in one single painted composition as formulated by individual religious liturgical texts and traditions. The theme of Tsongkhapa (1357-1419), founder of the Gelug order, surrounded by a hierarchy of the Buddhist pantheon is commonly found in Tibetan painting from the 18th century onwards. The circular design for this style of Refuge Field composition would have likely originated in the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery of Shigatse and would have been based on the artistic and iconographic tradition of Konchog Gyaltsen, student of Panchen Lama Lobsang Chokyi Gyaltsen.十八世紀 宗喀巴大師皈依境唐卡來源: 英國私人收藏, 附倫敦Fine Antiquities Ethnographica 1986年12月20日發票複印件。

Ethnographica: a tribal spear, 129cm long.

Ethnographica, including cowrie shell jewellery, beadwork, Bedouin brass necklace, carnelian bead necklace etc (one box)

Ethnographica - Australian Aboriginal style bust, 101cm high, a rainstick, 81cm long, and two bullroarers, one inscribed verso 'Murring Wiradjuri Tribe Australia', 35cm and smaller (4)

Ethnographica, a pair of carved hardwood candle holders? as crocodiles, 22.5cm long. Carved figures (one dam) and drums. XIX Century European brass-bound box, tinplate Scalex Ferrari 4.5.

Ethnographica: a mixed group of carved wood items, to include three walking sticks; together with a cast brass mask. (10)

Ethnographica: a stained and carved wood Senufo bird, Ivory Coast, 33.5cm high.

Ethnographica - A carved wood, polychrome mask, approximately 25 cm (l). [W]

Ethnographica - A carved wood ceremonial / ritual mask, Sogo Tsogho, Gabon, approximately 38 cm (l). [W]

Ethnographica - A carved wood mask with white pigment, Vuvi Gabon, approximately 33 cm (l). [W]

Ethnographica - A collection of tribal carvings to include figural candlesticks and busts, largest approximately 52 cm (h). [W]

Ethnographica - A carved wood mask, probably Indonesian, 24 cm (l). [W]

Ethnographica - A carved wood funerary / ritual mask in the form of an elephant, Babanki Cameroon, approximately 73 cm (l). [W]

Ethnographica - A carved wood mask, Punu, Gabon, approximately 35 cm (l). [W]

Ethnographica - leather cladded Sudanese dagger with leather scabbard with python snake skin cladding and decoration

Ethnographica -19th century aboriginal, Australian club. Length 60cms

Ethnographica, 19th / 20th Century Nigerian / Central and Western African fighting / prestige axe with chisled decorative line motifs and cobra skin leather wrapping. Length of handle shaft : 50cm, length of axe blade: 32cm long

African tribal / Ethnographica axe

Ethnographica - Two African Tribal throwing spears

Ethnographica: a ewe maternity figure, Ghana, 30cm high.

Ethnographica: two long spears, to include a barbed fishing spear, possibly Mozambique, largest 218.5cm long.

Ethnographica: a tribal carved wood headrest, 27cm wide.

Ethnographica: two carved wood tribal figures, largest 43.5cm high. (2)

Ethnographica: four Fon fetish figure groups, Benin, to include a Voodoo example, total height of largest 27cm. (4)

Ethnographica: a large twin handled hardwood bowl, 67cm wide.

Ethnographica: a Bemba or Luba stool, West Africa, 50cm high.

Ethnographica: a mixed group of tribal items, to include: a bronze serpent, 18.5cm long; a Nattitingou flute, Benin, 39cm long, on ebonized stand; and a West African bronze and bone pipe. (4)

Ethnographica: an Ashanti fertility figure, 51cm high.

Ethnographica: a large Dogon ancestor figure, Mali, 63cm high.

Ethnographica: a Yoruba Shango hardwood figure group, 45cm high.

Ethnographica: a Nkondi nail fetish figure, Kongo, 58.5cm high.

Ethnographica: a West African maternity figure, 25cm high; together with a carved wood goblet; a Hungana figure, Democratic Republic of Congo, 21cm high; and a Venavi twin figure. (4)

A mixed lot, to include a morse code machine and ethnographica, largest 26.5cm high. (4)

Ethnographica: a Luba birthing group, Democratic Republic of Congo, 59cm long.

Ethnographica: a large seated Baga statue, Guinea, with red pigmentation, 48cm high, on ebonized base.

Ethnographica: a large Baoule Colon, Ivory Coast, with remains of coloured pigmentation, 52cm high, on ebonized base.

Ethnographica - A pair of African tribal paddle spears with pierced and carved decoration, approximately 154 cm (l). [2]. [W]

Ethnographica. A wooden mother statue with a child on her arm, Luba tribe, Congo, Africa, 20th century, h 26 cm.

Ethnographica. A bronze Ashanti group at a hut, Africa, 20th century, h 11 x w 20 cm.

Ethnographica/Trbal. A wooden Fon Fetish statue, Africa, 20th century, h 18 cm.

Ethnographica- Large African Hardwood Female Figure Holding a Bottle also a male holding a stick, 78cm tall, with two smaller busts (Four).

Ethnographica - two tribal pairs of vintage Zulu beaded anklets with display stand

Ethnographica - tribal beaded girls initiation apron from the Xhosa, South Africa

Ethnographica - tribal beaded girls initiation apron from the Xhosa, South Africa, circa 1940s

Ethnographica - tribal beaded girls initiation apron from South Africa, circa 1900s

Ethnographica: a Zulu hardwood knobkerrie, 73.5cm.

Ethnographica Including: a Middle Eastern belt, two South-East Asian prayer wheels, North African carving and other itemsProvenance: The Selected Contents of Eden Lacy, Lazonby, from the estate of Victor Gubbins

Ethnographica: a pair of carved mahogany Inca portrait profile reliefs, one signed 'A Daza', 29 x 22.5cm. (2)