Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
19-21 December 1906
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/224
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rs OU our jam 553 é 5bd EBB ener enh ae oe “ately Syy) Third Day ornamented with silver studs and silk and bullion tassels 1 Two Fly Whisks ; .a Dervish’s Pipe ; a wooden Whistle; a lyre- shaped Musical Instrument 5 A large ivory Horn, with circle and pellet ornament engraved around the mouth; the attachments of braided rush 1 A pendant Ornament, formed of a finely engraved ostrich’s egg, with leather cords fixed to the upper end [Plate X_XTJI/, 12] ih Five Bludgeons of hard wood, and a Mace with chained attachments fixed to the heavy head eg G shells, etc., and a Woman’s Girdle of similar style, but more elaborately decked with shells and beads; both worn by the Bisharin Arabs [Plate XXII, 24] 2 A long Abyssinian scroll with illuminated figures of SS. Michael and George ; in glazed frame 1 Two oval-Rush Mats ; and a larger piece of Matting, etc. a lot END OF SALE. Dryden Press: J. Davy & Sons, 8-9, Frith-street, Soho-square, W.
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