Sales catalogue: Glendining

Date:
20-21 November 1933
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/8/183
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    pronged, showing the owner to be a chief of the:highest rank, and a head ornament of teeth, shell and tortoiseshell from the Marquesas Islands | (vl 11 | | Rare’ cannibal. fork for human flesh,and a-very rare was forced into the brain through the eve, Nakorovatu, Fiji Islands, 1873 oe 12] Exceedingly rare wooden ancestral figure, from —~J Easter Island, l6ins. high 3) Small mask of bark and fibre, representing a edi Guetiaece andea ime initiation belt decorated with totemic ‘designs, Orokolo, British New Guinea 17 G4) Portrait mask of a chief, the mask was placed on the man atideath, and afterwards \treacuredas sa memorial, Ibibio Tribe, South Nigeria AS) Rare ceremonial sword, the blade ornamented with a crocodile, and the wooden handle carved to re- present a tortoise with two flies on its back, the carving has a special significance, Benin = ~ (16) Four thin bronze plaques representing human ——) figures, etc., taken from off the door of the King’s compound at Benin City vs Very old wooden mask from Sierra Leone, of rare type AN , (18) Small wooden mask, representing a Bundu mask, but being the cover of a sacrificial vessel ! (19) Ancient brass or bronze oval box, the top of box depicts the Kinesor Benin with attendants 2, (20) Ceremonial. sword, in bronze, with large ring hamdlewea tid pierced blade, these swords are us- ually made of iron, Benin Aap Very rare four-faced wooden mask, to fit over the a head Hiaw lribe, French Greco: 22,7 Old Yoruba figure of the god Shango, and an ancient Ju Ju figure, covered with magic pigment
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