Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities - 20 Feb 2024
A Shona minature knife and sheath
A Shona minature knife and sheath
Zimbabwe
with a part ebonised iron blade and with sinew and hair binding,
15.8cm long,
ten resin skull pendants, with differing bead eyes, approximately 3.5cm high, two stone pipe bowls, one with a paper label, dated 1888 ?, a Papua New Guinea lime gourd, with a label dated 1904, 21cm long, a pottery oil lamp, with four compartments, two Islamic inscribed wood documents, a stone tablet with a carved animal and four tube recesses to one side, 6cm wide and a stone oil lamp. (20)
Provenance
Romy Rey Collection, London.