- WORKS OF ART REFERENCE BOOK COLLECTION
??????????????????????????????????????????????Including: Chinese works of art, cloisonne enamel, archaic bronze, furniture, Buddhist art, Scholar's pieces etc, in total 36...
[more like this] - TIBETAN BRASS-MOUNTED CONCH SHELL SHANKHA
(TRUMPET) 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY LENGTH 14”. WIDTH 7”. (TRUMPET), 19th/Early 20th Century, Brass mounts with ornate floral and vine designs interspersed with mystical...
[more like this] - 3 ANTIQUE SACRED RITUAL CLOTHS FROM
SULAWESI3 sacred ritual cloths from Sulawesi, one depicting elephants on printed cotton, late 19th/early 20th century; one depicting carabao, "mawa", painted cotton, early...
[more like this] - "OUR WILD INDIANS", COL. R. I. DODGE
1ST ED. 1882Presented in this lot is a Rare 1st Edition "Our Wild Indians: Thirty-Three Years' Personal Experience among the Red Men Of The Great West" by Colonel Richard...
[more like this] - TAINO STYLE WOOD ANIMAL FORM CEREMONIAL
STOOL, DUHOLatin American, ritual seat known as "duho", in the shape of a sacred spirit, Zemi, with four legged base, 5-1/2 x 16-3/4 x 4-3/8 in.
Provenance: Private Collection,...
[more like this] - MAYA STONE SCULPTURE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL
BEINGPre-Columbian, Maya territories, late Preclassic, ca. 400 BCE to 250 CE. A fascinating, large, pale sandstone sculpture depicting a shaman in the act of transformation...
[more like this] - 19TH C. THAI BLUE-ON-WHITE POTTERY KENDI,
ELEPHANT FORM...Southeast Asia, Thailand, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. This is a charming porcelain elephant form kendi or ewer with an attractive blue on white...
[more like this] - RARE EGYPTIAN STRIDING IBIS BRONZE /
COBALT BLUE GLASSEgypt, Ptolemaic Period, ca. 332 to 30 BCE. An extremely rare example of a majestic ibis exhibiting a body shaped from solid glass in an opaque, cobalt-blue...
[more like this] - 19TH C. TLINGIT / HAIDA BONE PENDANT
EAGLE HEAD SHAMANNative American, Pacific Northwest Coast, United States or Canada, Tlingit or Haida people, ca. 19th century CE. A marine mammal bone amulet and pendant in...
[more like this] - 20TH C. TLINGIT WALRUS IVORY & NACRE
SHAMAN ORCA AMULET...Native American, Pacific Northwest Coast, United States or Canada, Tlingit people, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. This is a stunning walrus ivory pendant...
[more like this] - EGYPTIAN MUMMIFIED IBIS + X-RAY PHOTO
- 1910 PROVENANCE...Ancient Egypt, found at Abydos, Late Dynastic to Roman Period, ca. 400 BCE to 200 CE. An incredibly well-preserved mummified ibis exhibiting expert layering...
[more like this] - MAYA CYLINDER - JAGUAR / SMOKING GODS,
EX KERR**First Time At Auction**
Pre-Columbian, Guatemala, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. An exemplary pottery cylinder vessel, finely painted with scenes...
[more like this] - RARE 19TH C. CENTRAL ASIAN BRONZE CEREMONIAL
SUGAR AXE**Originally Listed At $1500**
Near East / Central Asia, Iraq & Afghanistan, ca. 18th to 19th century CE. An incredibly rare and beautiful tool known as a sugar...
[more like this] - 19TH C. TIBETAN TWO-HEADED DAMARU DRUMCentral
Asia, Tibet, ca. 19th to early 20th century CE. A two-headed drum, known as a damaru (damru), made from two human skull caps with stretched skin painted green (also probably...
[more like this] - KAKAR SPEARKakar spear, with rattan
and rope band, face of ancestor figure. Kakar spears are some of the most sacred and important features of Murik society, as they are thought to possess spiritual powers to...
[more like this] - TWO TIBETAN WHITE METAL AMULETS, GAU
QING
DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY ? ????????????????? ? ??????????????????????comprising: an ogee-shaped shrine, the cover decorated with scrolling vine ground and beaded borders, inlaid...
[more like this] - TWO HUICHOL YARN PAINTINGS, WITH BOOK
HUICHOL INDIAN SACRED RITUALS The first a yarn painting by Guadalupe González Ríos (Huichol, 1923-2003), titled Corn Manifestation, signed to verso (11 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.)...
[more like this] - Stan Davis
(American, b. 1942)
Sacred
Ritual of the Pipe
oil on canvas
signed Davis (lower right)
40 x 40 inches
The Laumeister Collection from The Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, Vermont...
[more like this] - TAINO, SMALL STONE REPRESENTATION OF
A COHOBASTAND OR TABLE. THESE STANDS WERE DISTRIBUTION CENTERS FOR THE HALLUCINOGEN COHOBA DURING SACRED RITUALS. 5" HIGH. CA 1,000 - 1,500 A.D. PROVENANCE: ALFRED CARRADA...
[more like this] - AN INCREDIBLE TAINO ANTHROPIC AXE WITH
DUCK HEADear ornaments and dog face (nose/mouth combination). Made of Metabasalt. Head band, brow, and neck band all incorporate interlocking bird heads, Taino symbols for...
[more like this] - Malangatana Ngwenya
(Mozambican, 1936-2011)
Ritual
at the Sacred Tree, 2003
pen and ink on paper
signed and dated (lower right)
16 x 13 inches...
[more like this] - [American Indian - General] Books on
Native Song lot of 11 books including:Bierhorst John. In the Trail of the Wind: American Indian Poems and Ritual Orations. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1971.Brandon...
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