Online catalogue for the 57th tribal art auction with special part 'Wunderkammer Naturalia'
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1 Globe
This object is not available any more.
Naturalia
wood, paper, consisting of 22 demountable parts, outside showing the continents and oceans, inside specifications of Europe, America, Asia and Africa with details to location, size and states and characteristical animals, on ebonized wood stand, min. dam., slight signs of abrasion and usage; a globe is a three-dimensional scale model of Earth (terrestrial globe) or other spheroid celestial body such as a planet, star, or moon. It may also refer to a spherical representation of the celestial sphere, showing the apparent positions of the stars in the sky (celestial globe.) The word "globe" comes from the Latin word globus, meaning round mass or sphere.
H: 20,5 cm; D: 14 cm, (4489/137)
H: 8.1 inch; D: 5.5 inch
Sold for: 1200 €
2 Part of a trunk
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Naturalia
Mali, Westafrica; light brown wood, partly shiny patina, very hard wood, used as the mouth of a water well, therefore reach cord wear marks, natural weathering all over, min. dam., traces of weathering, fissures, missing parts; any particular wood that has a reputation for hardness is called iron wood.
H: 40 cm; D: 45 cm, (4754/029)
H: 15.7 inch; D: 17.7 inch
Price: 3200 - 5000 €
3 Coco de Mer (Lodoicea maldivica)
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Naturalia
of typical form, slight signs of abrasion; the Coco de Mer is a palm tree, endemic to the islands of Praslin and Curieuse in the Seychelles. Formerly it was known as Maldive Coconut. Its scientific name, Lodoicea maldivica, originated before the 18th century when the Seychelles were uninhabited. In centuries past the coconuts that fell from the trees and ended up in the sea would be carried away westwards by the prevailing sea currents. The nuts can only float after the germination process, when they are hollow. In this way many drifted to the Maldives where they were gathered from the beaches and valued as an important trade and medicinal item. Until the true source of nut was discovered in 1768, it was believed by many to grow on a mythical tree at the bottom of the sea. European nobles in the sixteenth century would often have the shells of these nuts cleaned and decorated with valuable jewels as collectibles for their private galleries. The Coco de Mer is now a rare protected species.
L: 32 cm, (4695/005)
L: 12.6 inch
Sold for: 900 €
4 Oligocene fossil skull of a hyracodon
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Naturalia
with complete dentition, reconstructed from single parts, min. dam., small fissures and missing parts; found in the Whiteriver Badlands, Wyoming, USA. Hyracodon is an extinct genus of mammal. It was a lightly built, pony-like mammal of about 1.5 m long. Hyracodon's skull was large in comparison to the rest of the body. Hyracodon's dentition resembled that of later rhinoceroses, but it was a much smaller animal and differed very little in appearance from the primitive horses of which it was a contemporary (32-26 million years ago). It had a short, broad snout and its long, slender limbs had three digits. They died out without leaving any descendants and they mark the end of the phylogenetic branch of hornless, running rhinoceroses.
L: 32 cm, (4754/021)
L: 12.6 inch
Sold for: 600 €
5 Two small animal skulls
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Naturalia
brown patina, of a pleistocene beaver (Castoroides canadensis), complete with affixed lower jaw, tips of the incisors missing, l: 6,5 cm, h: 4,5 cm; additionally a skull of a pleistocene rabbit, min. dam., l: 3 cm; both skulls were found in a peat bog in Minnesota (USA). The Pleistocene is the epoch from 1.8 million to 10,000 years BC covering the world's recent period of repeated glaciations.
(4754/028)
(4754/028)
Sold for: 300 €
6 Mandible of pleistocene wooly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius)
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Naturalia
with four original molars, museum quality , min. dam., cracks, small missing parts; found in Rhine River gravel deposits, Germany. the woolly mammoth was the last species of the genus. Most populations of the woolly mammoth in North America and Eurasia died out at the end of the last Ice Age. Until recently, it was generally assumed that they vanished from Europe and Southern Siberia about 10,000 B.C.E, but new findings show that some were still present there about 8,000 B.C.E. Whether the general mammoth population died out for climatic reasons or due to overhunting by humans is controversial. Another theory suggests that they may have fallen victim to an infectious disease. A combination of climate change and hunting by humans is the most likely explanation for their extinction.
L: 51 cm; H: 34,5 cm, (4754/003)
L: 20.1 inch; H: 13.6 inch
Sold for: 900 €
7 Tooth of a Carcharodontosaur
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Naturalia
of slightly bent form, with elaborate serrated rim, min. dam., fissures through age, small missing parts; Carcharodontosaurus was a gigantic carnivorous dinosaur that lived around 98 to 93 million years ago. It was nearly as long as or even longer than Tyrannosaurus, growing to an estimated 11,1-13,5 m and weighing up to 2,9 tons. The name "Carcharodontosaurus" means "shark tooth lizard".
L: 9,5 cm, (4754/026)
L: 3.7 inch
Sold for: 450 €
8 Molar of a Mastodon (Mammut americanum)
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Naturalia
dark, shiny patina, un-erupted tooth with six peaks (tubercula), min. dam., fissures; found in the Suwanee River, Florida (USA). Mastodons were native to both Eurasia and North America but the Eurasian species "mammut borsoni" died out approximately 3 million years ago. "Mammut americanum" is generally reported as having disappeared from North America about 10,000 years ago, at the same time as most other Pleistocene megafauna. It is known from fossils found ranging from present-day Alaska and New England in the north, to Florida, southern California, Mexico, and as far south as Honduras.
H: 5 cm; L: 9,5 cm, (4754/022)
H: 2 inch; L: 9,2 inch
Sold for: 300 €
9 Fossil egg of a daroosaur
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Naturalia
found in Xixia Basin, Hunan Province, China, presumably cretaceous period; petrified, with adhesive remains of the nest bottom, min. dam., fissures, small missing parts; dinosaurs hatched from eggs laid by females after sexual reproduction. The eggs were round or elongated and had hard, brittle shells. Internally, these eggs were similar to those of reptiles, birds and primitive mammals. They contained a membrane (called the amnion) that kept the embryo moist. Some dinosaurs cared for their eggs, others simply laid them and then abandoned them.
L: 18 cm, (4754/010)
L: 7.1 inch
Sold for: 400 €
10 Group of dinosaur eggs
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Naturalia
originating from oviraptors, four oblong eggs with adhesive remains of the nest bottom, min. dam., fissures, small missing parts; found in the Xixia Basin, Hunan Province, China. Oviraptor is Latin for 'egg seizer', referring to the fact that the first fossil specimen was discovered atop a pile of what were thought to be Protoceratops eggs, and the specific name Philoceratops means "lover of Ceratopsians", also given as a result of this find. The name was given due to the close proximity of the skull of Oviraptor to the nest (it was separated from the eggs by only four inches of sand). It was also suggested that the name Oviraptor "may entirely mislead us as to its feeding habits and belie its character." In the 1990s, the discovery of nesting Oviraptorids like Citipati proved that the caution regarding the name was correct. These finds showed that the eggs in question probably belonged to Oviraptor itself, and that the specimen was actually brooding its eggs.
L: 41 cm; B: 24,5 cm, (4754/007)
L: 16.1 inch; B: 9.6 inch
Sold for: 700 €
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