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Lot 142
Four Xhosa Pipe Cleaners, South Africa
12 May 2012, 13:00 EDT
New YorkSold for US$1,000 inc. premium
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heights 4 3/4 - 10 1/2in (12.1 - 26.7cm)
two of carved wood with pink, white, blue, and black glass beads and a row of collar buttons at each end, truncated bicycle spokes as the implement; another carved wood cylindrical container, alternating with spiral and longitudinal ribbing, with a truncated bicycle spoke as the implement; the last cylindrical wood case, carved to represent a bound bundle of reeds, with metal umbrella rib inserted as the cleaning tool.
Provenance:
Sotheby's, November 1998
two of carved wood with pink, white, blue, and black glass beads and a row of collar buttons at each end, truncated bicycle spokes as the implement; another carved wood cylindrical container, alternating with spiral and longitudinal ribbing, with a truncated bicycle spoke as the implement; the last cylindrical wood case, carved to represent a bound bundle of reeds, with metal umbrella rib inserted as the cleaning tool.
Provenance:
Sotheby's, November 1998














