Sales catalogue: Stevens

Date:
28-29 July 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/21/733
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    ETHNOGRAPHICAL, IDOLS, ARMS, &c. ; } PRI 488. Maori, fine specimen of a chief’s staff of office (Hani), 2): 9 /° (97 ~~ carved and decorated with mother-o’-pear] A similar staff 2) ¥/- tora, . Maori, carved patu with feathers, an early ppeamen 3}/A Sane Australian ‘ ‘wummerah’’ or throw-stick, 2 interesting , ji2/s honor specimens 2 Sixty varieties of New Zealand ferns, mounted on cards, named and contained in a kauri box, very, ges con- dition Rare specimen of a native “‘ piano,’ ‘ conmtnucted of Inaiet’ wood keys and cattle horns, carved decoration _ Probriand Group, Papua, interesting cxamplesy of Te 197- basket work reer African bead-work ornaments (3), .and a Soe dagger, with engraved blade (4) Egyptian engraved gourds (4), quiver, and a head-rest i): di :.. Ancient Egyptian, a frame containing a collection. of * | 30 amulets, in fine blue glaze, B.C. 900-700 Ay ats AS Ancient Egyptian . carved wood. mask, an interesti ine FLL 1A 4 - =. specimen a ee tec nled ea RA Cleopatra’s Needle, a “scale model ($in. to 1ft.), by Joseph _ Whitley, founder, Leeds, 1881, bronze on a silvered base, mint condition, 3ft. 7in. high A Polynesian, cultivated Kava root knobkerrie, carved 17 xr’ » handle | A Aztec Indian, exceptionally fine head of. a ede. FEO RM excavated at, Mitla, in the Zapotec Territory Ditto—Head of a god, and another (2) 2 . Ditto—Head ofa: priest (?), a“ head of Chacmool a, hed fine specimens (2) a Ditto—Figure of a god carved in green ae (?), fine example of early workmanship ~ Phenomena of Nature, hand-painted lantern slides (12) Old lantern slides, slips (8), mechanical (2), early train, Coventry, and Vi irginia Water (12) | Cockfighting, old bentwood and ‘cane referee’s chair i) AM ~ Rare’ pair of procupine quill embroidered moccasins (North American Indian), beaded squaw’s collar and cuffs, embroidered front, and horn spoon
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