Online catalogue for the 63rd tribal art auction with special part 'wunderkammer'
221 Small head
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Mexico, Olmeken
greenish stone, marbled brown and white, regular facial features, wearing a kind of bonnet, hole on top of the head, in a good state of preservation; the Olmecs were looked upon as bearers of the Meso-American La-Venta Culture. In the famous colossal heads and sculpted stone altars they created excellent monumental plastics, as well as small plastics made of jade.
H: 2,5 cm
H: 1 inch
Provenance
Private Collection, South Germany
Sold.
222 Jaguar mask
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Mexico
wood, painted in black and white, traces of red paint, elongated form, cylindrical vaulted, a broad round snout, pierced eyes, old collection number in white paint "880" on the left tip of the snout, slightly dam., missing parts (left eye, piercings at the rim), cracks, paint rubbed off; the jaguar played an important role in the creation myth of the Aztecs.
H: 16 cm, 19th century
H: 6.3 inch, 19th century
Provenance
Dick Meijer, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Price: 500 - 1000 €
223 Seated hunchback
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Mexico, Jalisco
fired clay, greyish brown patina, pigment remains, hollow figure, opening on top of the head, elongated narrow head, possibly a reference to cranial deformation, disc-shaped ear ornament, minor chips (lips and ears); pieces of art from all over Mesoamerica show figures with physical deformities. People with those "unusual" appearances may have held important positions within their societies because of their looks. Very likely they played a ritual role. The idea is strengthened by the fact that all this can be regarded as ceremonial earthenware, for the larger part pottery functioned as grave-goods.
H: 21 cm, ca. 100 BC - 250 AD
H: 8.3 inch, ca. 100 BC - 250 AD
Provenance
Private Collection, California, USA
Literature
Leyenaar, Ted u.a., Von Küste zu Küste, Prä-Kolumbianische Skulpturen aus Meso-Amerika, Ausst.kat., o.O. 1992, p. 339
Sold.
224 Big hollow figure of a standing woman
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Mexico, Nayarit
fired clay, dyed in orange red, firmly standing on big feet, the box-shaped body with short, tube-like arranged arms, nose, ears and upper arms decorated with the characteristic rings of the Nayarit culture, opening on top of the head, slightly dam., missing part (earring right hand side), chip on the left shoulder; the right hand up to the shoulder supporting a receptacle, the left hand resting underneath the breast. This is a common gesture of female figures made by West Coast cultures. It's supposed to be a hint on female fertility.
H: 37,5 cm, ~ 100 BC - 250 AD
H: 14.8 inch, ~ 100 BC - 250 AD
Provenance
Private Collection, New York, USA
Literature
Hoffmann, Ulrich (Hg.), Frauen des alten Amerika in Kult und Alltag, Stuttgart 2001, p. 187
Sold.
225 Idol
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Mexico, Guerrero, Mezcala
jadeit, polished, compact flat body with large head, arms and facial featurers marked by notches, dam., missing part (left side of the head), on metal base; the Mezcala idols of Mesoamerica developed from objects shaped like stone axes. In the course of time the differentiation of human forms was increased, but the basic elements of the axe shape were retained.
H: 23 cm, 900 - 300 B.C.
H: 9.1 inch, 900 - 300 B.C.
Provenance
Galerie Chavin, Vienna, Austria
Expertise
Galerie Chavin, G. Bohuslav, Vienna, Austria, 27.02.2006, Zertifikatseriennummer PC 000252
Literature
Leyenaar, Ted u.a., Von Küste zu Küste, Prä-Kolumbianische Skulpturen aus Meso-Amerika, Ausst.kat., o.O, 1992, p. 75 f., p. 388, ill. 372
Sold.
226 Idol
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Mexico, Guerrero, Mezcala
granite, polished, stylized form, deep notches marking the arms resting in front of the body, encrusted with clay
H: 13 cm
H: 5.1 inch
Provenance
Private Collection, Utrecht, The Netherlands (2000)
Dick Meijer, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Literature
Leyenaar, Ted u.a., Von Küste zu Küste, Prä-Kolumbianische Skulpturen aus Meso-Amerika, Ausst.kat., o.O, 1992, p. 75 f., p. 388, ill. 372
Sold.
227 dropped
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228 Turtle fetish
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Honduras
wood, greyish brown patina, small remains of polychrome pigment, stylized form, an oval vaulted corpus with raised middle ridge and stylized head, slightly dam., missing part (rim), cracks, traces of insect caused damage, paint rubbed off; fetish for hunting, fishing and the gathering of vegetable aliments.
L: 53,5 cm
L: 21.1 inch
Provenance
Nijmeegs Volkenkundig Museum, The Netherlands (Inventory Number 585)
Michel Thieme, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Price: 500 - 1000 €
229 Fragments of fabric
South America
4 pieces, band of fabric, l: 114 cm, b: 9 cm, cotton/wool, zoomorphic double figure, elaborate rest.; border with fringes, alpaca wool/cotton, partly in slit-tapestry, jaguar and bird motif, elaborately rest., gauze fixed underneath the missing parts; additional: fabric fragment with bird head motif, m: 21 cm x 14 cm and fragment with geometrical motifs, m: 28 cm x 15 cm, both of them with stitched contours; all four fragments brashly, because of old age, fixed on black cardboard; all textiles of pre-columbian times were found on archeological excavations, mostly along the Peruvian coast. Because the coastal area has the conditions to conserve and preserve such a fading material like textiles over centuries: continous aridity and a high concentration of salpetre in the soil.The textiles were relics of a distinct death cult, which had been practiced by various cultures over centuries. The deceased was buried in a crouching position, wrapped in various layers of thin cotton cloth, which was decorated and fixed by elaborate borders and sashes of wool weaving.
Provenance
Coll. Roland Hartmann, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Literature
Hoffmann, Ulrich (Hg.), Frauen des alten Amerika in Kult und Alltag, Stuttgart 2001, p. 127 f.
Price: 400 - 750 €
230 dropped
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