Online catalogue for the 63rd tribal art auction with special part 'wunderkammer'

571 Magical object

This object is not available any more.

D. R. Congo, Vili

remains of pigments, ape skull (presumably baboon), the zone of forehead, cheeks and chin covered with clay-like mass, wickerwork coating, presumably filled with magic material, min. dam., cracks, slight traces of abrasion;

L: 23,5 cm
L: 9.3 inch

Literature
Weinhold, Ulrike,The Eternal Face, Afrika Museum Berg en Dal 2000, p. 213, ill. 6

Price: 1000 - 2000 €

572 Sword

This object is not available any more.

D. R. Congo, Yaka

metal, blade with delicate ornaments on both sides, the metal hilt decorated with tags and multicoloured mesh wire, min. dam., slight traces of corrosion

L: 65,5 cm
L: 25.8 inch

Provenance
Old Private Collection, Belgium

Literature
Fischer, Werner, Zirngibl, Manfred A., Afrikanische Waffen, Passau 1978, p. 140, ill. 250

Sold.

573 Female power figure "phuungu"

This object is not available any more.

D. R. Congo, Yaka

wood, brown patina, blackened in parts, strong legs supporting a short cylindrical trunk with slit-shaped deepening, the head with the Yaka-typical "snub nose" and voluminous coiffure, min. dam., cracks, slight traces of abrasion, on base; these figures served as containers of protective magical power exercised by the experts against illness, to avenge sorcery and for supernatural assistance in hunting.

H: 26,5 cm
H: 10.4 inch

Provenance
Private Collection, The Hague, The Netherlands

Literature
Bourgeois, Arthur P., Art of the Yaka and Suku, Paris 1984, p. 195

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574 Kneeling female figure

This object is not available any more.

D. R. Congo, Yombe/Manyanga

wood, luscious reddish brown patina, camwood powder, brass tag, symmetrical arranged body with closed contour, mirror glass eyes, traces of nails once driven into the figure, now removed, sacrificial traces, slightly dam. (nose, right ear), missing parts (breast), on base

H: 24 cm
H: 9.4 inch

Provenance
Old Private Collection, Belgium

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575 Pair of male colon figures

This object is not available any more.

Angola

wood, middle brown patina, blackened in parts, both sitting on chairs, showing european facial features, carved with uniform, holding a bottle, respectively a cigar, delicate carved, both min. dam., cracks, slight traces of abrasion; masks and figures in Colon style originate from the contact of African native people with the Euopean invaders. They always show typical elements of the local scuptural traditions.

H: 25 cm resp. 25,5 cm
H: 9.8 inch resp. 10 inch

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576 Small standing figure

This object is not available any more.

Angola, Holo

wood, reddish brown patina with traces of black paint, simplified in form, arms in flat relief close to the cylindrical body, a small spherical head with reduced facial features, slightly dam., paint rubbed off, cracks (above all in the back), acrylic base

H: 16,5 cm
H: 6.5 inch

Price: 500 - 1000 €

577 Knife

This object is not available any more.

Angola, Luena

metal, wood, dark brown patina, pointed blade, wooden handle decorated with geometrical incisions, surmounted by a human head with tribe-typical facial features, min. dam., slight traces of corrosion, on metal base

L: 40,5 cm
L: 15.9 inch

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578 Water pipe

This object is not available any more.

Angola, Lunda

pumpkin, light reddish brown patina, dark brown patina at the bottom, the bulbous calabash corpus serving as container for water, provided with a bamboo smoke tube, decorated with incised abstract figures, on metal base; just like earth and tube pipes the water pipe was already known in Africa before the tobacco came to arrive. The water pipe was brought along by arabian and persian merchants within the first centuries AD. Although lateron they were used for smoking tobacco as well, they predominantly served for the enjoyment of cannabis which is why their distribution was restricted on the area of East-, South- and Central Africa.

H: 42 cm
H: 16.5 inch

Provenance
Marc L. Felix, Brussels, Belgium

Literature
Mildner-Spindler, Roma, Rund um Tabakspfeifen, Afrikanisches Kunsthandwerk aus dem Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin, Berlin 1992, p. 19

Price: 1200 - 2500 €

579 Title staff

This object is not available any more.

Angola, Ovimbundu

wood, reddish brown patina, black paint, round staff, carved with an anthropomorphic head with voluminous coiffure, crowned by two stylized bird sculptures, slightly dam., cracks, paint rubbed off, old inventory number in white paint at the bottom of the staff "99" (Nijmeegs Volkenkundig Museum)

L: 65 cm
L: 25.6 inch

Provenance
Nijmeegs Volkenkundig Museum, The Netherlands (Inventory Number 99)
Michel Thieme, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Price: 300 - 600 €

580 Prayer book for travellers

This object is not available any more.

Ethiopia

wooden cover in leather bag with straps for support, pages of vellum (units of 12 pages sewn and bound with cord material), characters in classic Ethiopian language, so-called "geez", dam., tears and minor missing parts (pages), cracks (book cover), cord material of the binding partly renewed; complete with original envelope: a devotional priest may have carried the sacred document to his believers from one chapel to the other.

M: 16cm x 15,5 cm; M: 17cm x 18 cm (Tasche)
M: 6.3 inch x 6.1 inch; M: 6.7 inch x 7.1 inch (Tasche)

Sold.