Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities - 20 Feb 2024
Two Amazon bows
Two Amazon bows
palmwood with fibre binding,
179cm and 205cm long,
twenty one Amazon bamboo arrows, with feather flights and wood, metal and bamboo tips, a Tami Island paddle, with carved decoration to the base of the blade and with a janus head terminal, 203.5cm, two hardwood paddles, with metal capped tips, one carved ToToPo L CoBMENE twice and 1912, the other with indistinct letters, 162.5cm and 155cm long, an Indian carved grain shovel, a Himalyan octagonal wood staff with carved panel script, 106cm long, a New Hebrides club, 97cm long, a Papua New Guinea spear thrower, a bow, bamboo arrows, an antelope horn and a basket with applied cloth and painted decoration.
Provenance
Romy Rey Collection, London.