Sales catalogue: Glendining

Date:
1-2 October 1934
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/8/199
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Glendining. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eo) by 02) Eight pieces of tappa cloth, from Society Islands, Tonga, Fiji, Samoa and Hawaiian Islands, two very fine rush mats, one with wool border, Samoa, two chief’s resting mats, one with coloured border, five flax bags, five flax scented seed bags, a chief’s carved whale-bone peg, used for demaration of his resting place, New Zealand A 403) Fine old English archery bows, by Calvert, a fine truncheon, North West Riding, Yorkshire, a walking stick with concealed spear for killing snakes, a battle axe with brass engraved head, Mysore, India Star), for fighting on foot, length 5ft., Swiss two-pronged damascened spear, German &, 406) Sixteenth century Japanese bill, and six spears, all | very finely — decorated, and an old Japanese military hat 57 G07) foe Afghan sword-knives in sheaths, five old knives and daggers, and six spears from various parts of Africa 108 Two very fine spear throwers, one well carved, and a well carved churinga, 2ft. long 3ins. wide, Queensland, and two fine- spear throwers, Western Australia 109 Two exceedingly fine ceremonial Bagarra spears, length 8ft. 10ins., width of blades 54ins., Africa ch 110) Nine Solomon Islands spears of good old type, and mie aed in perfect condition ay Five spears, beautifully carved shafts, from the — Upper Amazon, South America | 12) Five ditto different patterns 113 Five ditto of smaller pattern
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