Open for bidding
Native American & Tribal Art | Bonhams Skinner
Ending from 30 March 2023, 19:00 EDT
The March Native American & Tribal Art online auction features artefacts encompassing many of the world's tribal cultures, from the North American Indian tribes to objects from Africa, the South Pacific, and South-East Asia. The auction offers a trip around the globe, from its ritual figures from the Congo to shaman's masks from the Ivory Coast and the Himalayas to war clubs, bark cloth, and early stone tools from Melanesia and Polynesia. The sale has a wide range of North American artefacts such as Northwest Coast horn spoons and totems, California baskets, Navajo textiles and silver and turquoise jewellery, Hopi katsinas, and Southwest pottery. The auction also features an extensive collection of Plains Indian beadwork from the Dean Taylor collection of Denver, Colorado, as well as several collections of reference books and auction catalogues of world tribal art.
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Auction highlights
Lot gallery
385 lots available
1 — A Naga sword, Dao lg. 31 1/4 in.
US$300 - US$500
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5 — A Nepalese wood mask ht. 9 1/4, wd. 7 in.
US$200 - US$400
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6 — Ten silver bracelets from Timor-Leste
US$500 - US$700
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8 — A Dayak male figure ht. 32 in.
US$2,000 - US$2,500
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9 — A Philippines coconut cup
US$200 - US$300
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16 — A New Guinea stone head club lg. 25 in.
US$300 - US$500
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18 — A New Guinea reliquary figure lg. 82 in.
US$700 - US$900
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20 — A New Guinea sago peg 17 1/4 in.
US$700 - US$900
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21 — A New Guinea hafted stone axe ht. 26 3/4 in.
US$300 - US$500
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24 — A Korwar figure ht. 9 1/4 in.
US$1,500 - US$2,000
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27 — A Huon Gulf wood bowl lg. 21 3/4, wd. 8 1/2 in.
US$600 - US$800
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29 — A Lake Sentani stone adze blade lg. 10 1/4 in.
US$200 - US$300
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32 — A Large Massim lime spatula
US$300 - US$500
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38 — A Solomon Islands war club lg. 47 in.
US$300 - US$500
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39 — Three Aboriginal fighting sticks
US$300 - US$500
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46 — A Niue paddle club, ula-fumiti lg. 83 3/4 in.
US$700 - US$900
Closing in 5 days
Specialist contacts
Michael Evans
American Indian & Ethnographic Art
