Lot# 39
Ancient Egyptian Bronze Ibex
Small pegs to legs indicate a missing base.
Approximate dimensions: 2 1/8 high x 2 7/8 inches long..
Condition: Significant patina. Minor losses.
Estimate: $150 - $250
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Lot# 41
Papua New Guinea Decorated Human Skull
Likely Bamu River Torobina tribe.
Decorated with wood carving to nose, red seeds to eyes, and hand carved wood, inlaid red seeded eyes, hanging shell toggle with seed beads and fiber strand on later black metal stand.
With red DAVID HOWARD TRIBAL ART sticker to reverse.
Approximate dimensions not including stand: 11 high x 6 wide x 12 1/2 inches deep..
Condition: Wear, weathering, and patina throughout. Loss to teeth.
Estimate: $5000 - $7000
Lot# 43
Dayak Carved Human Trophy Skull
Missing lower jaw, relief carvings with floral and foliate pattern on later black metal stand.
With red DAVID HOWARD TRIBAL ART sticker.
Approximate dimensions not including stand: 6 1/4 high x 5 1/4 wide x 7 inches deep..
Condition: Weathering, patina, and wear throughout. Loss to teeth.
Estimate: $3500 - $4500
Lot# 45
Naga Headhunter Warriors Hip Ornament
Carved horn decorated with red dyed hair, woven and braided fiber.
With red DAVID HOWARD TRIBAL ART sticker.
Approximate dimensions: 14 inches long..
Condition: Some wear and patina throughout, chips to horn edges. Apparent loss to hair evident from open holes.
Estimate: $500 - $800
Lot# 46
Naga Beaded Necklace
Blue, red, and orange beads, woven fiber strand, circular metal disk clasp.
With red DAVID HOWARD TRIBAL ART sticker.
Approximate dimensions: 15 inches high..
Condition: Some patina and weathering.
Estimate: $300 - $500
Lot# 47
Naga Necklace with Carved Shell Beads
On woven black textile strand.
With red DAVID HOWARD TRIBAL ART sticker.
Approximate dimensions: 14 inches long..
Condition: The beads with some patina, wear, and discoloration.
Estimate: $300 - $500
Lot# 48
Naga Headhunter Warriors Ceremonial Necklace
Carved and incised large shell pendant bone spacers carnelian, shell, yellow, orange, sky blue, red, green navy blue beads.
With red DAVID HOWARD TRIBAL ART sticker.
Approximate dimensions: 18 1/2 inches long..
Condition: Some wear and patina throughout.
Estimate: $1400 - $1800
Lot# 49
Naga Beaded Necklace
With brass bells and bone spacers sky blue, navy blue, red, green, brown, and black beads on original woven fiber strands, coin clasp.
With red DAVID HOWARD TRIBAL ART sticker.
Approximate dimensions: 12 1/4 inches long..
Similar examples in The Nagas: Hill People of Northeast India: Society, Culture and the Colonial Encounter by Julian Jacobs, pages 311 and 320.
Condition: Weathering, patina, and wear throughout.
Estimate: $600 - $800
Lot# 50
Naga Headhunter Warriors Waist Band
The thick textile backing decorated with circular brass disk, 5 cowry shells issuing 5 drops with metal tubing and carnelian beads.
Approximate dimensions: 11 1/4 high x 38 1/2 inches wide..
Condition: Weathering, patina, and wear throughout.
Estimate: $1400 - $1800
Lot# 51
Naga Headhunter Warriors Brass Necklace
Decorated with 3 human faces that hang from the center flanked by 8 circular Pendents, 4 on each side of the 3 faces.
Approximate dimensions: 7 3/4 inches diameter..
Condition: Patina and wear throughout. Some rubbing to engraved decoration.
Estimate: $600 - $800
Lot# 52
Hmong Embroidered Quilt Top
Circa 2000.
The bright colored textile elaborately hand embroidered central sections surrounded by diamond, pinwheel triangular and plain quilted sections. Backing: lightweight cotton, printed with sprigs of yellow flowers with green leaves in clusters.
Approximate dimensions: 9 feet 3 inches x 7 feet 11 inches..
Estimate: $400 - $600
Lot# 53
Bhutanese Ceremonial Cham Dance Wood Mask
With worn black pigment to eyebrows and hair decorated with textile tassel, possibly later later custom black metal stand.
Approximate dimensions not including stand: 8 1/4 high x 5 1/2 inches wide..
Published in the book Sacred Journey: The Ganges to the Himalayas by David Howard, page 46.
Condition: Weathering, patina, and wear throughout. Small wood loss to one ear.
Estimate: $1400 - $1800
Lot# 59
Native American Sioux Male Doll
Beaded hide clothing and human hair.
Approximate dimensions: 15 inches high..
Ex-collection The Marilyn Eber Collection of Native American Art, Denver, Colorado Hindman Lot 880 11/5/2021.
Condition: Some wear and weathering to hide. Breastplate with some loss to beads. Some apparent loss to hair.
Estimate: $900 - $1200
Lot# 60
Native American Sioux Female Doll
Beaded chest plate, beaded hide clothing, human hair on later stand.
Approximate dimensions: 13 inches high..
Ex-collection The Marilyn Eber Collection of Native American Art, Denver, Colorado Hindman Lot 880 11/5/2021.
Condition: Minor wear and weathering overall.
Estimate: $900 - $1200
Lot# 61
Native American Sioux Beaded Leggings
The beads in blues tones, red, green, and yellow on brain tanned hide.
With red DAVID HOWARD TRIBAL ARTS sticker to paper filling.
Approximate dimensions: 8 1/2 inches long..
Condition: Minor wear and weathering to hide.
Estimate: $1000 - $1400
Lot# 62
Native American Sioux Pair of Beaded Hide Leggings
Late 19th century.
Tanned hide, glass beads, sinew lashings. Extra large size.
With Heritage auctions lot sticker, red DAVID HOWARD TRIBAL ART sticker.
Approximate dimensions: 15 inches long..
Provenance: Ex-Collection Mother of Mary Lou Wabashall, Wisconsin Heritage auctions lot 71199 11/14/2014.
Condition: Some weathering and patina to hide. Minor loss to beads.
Estimate: $1000 - $1400
Lot# 63
Native American Sioux Tribe Pipe with Stone Bowl
The catlinite stone bowl with inlaid metal floral patterns, carved wooden stem with quill wrapped stem, feathers and dyed red hair strand with textile wrap, hung with horsehair and textile strips, 14 brass tacks to stem with later black metal stand.
With red DAVID HOWARD TRIBAL ART sticker.
Approximate dimensions: 27 inches long..
Condition: Some weathering, patina, and wear throughout. Some charring to bowl. Minor loss to mouthpiece. Staining to textile elements. The bowl is slightly loose on the stem, and the stand does not feel totally secure.
Estimate: $2000 - $3000
Lot# 87
Persian Part Silk Isfahan Rug
Late 20th Century.
Silk and cotton. Off-white field, dark teal, black, deep red, ocher and purple woven medallion, meandering vines, flower heads, scrolls reserved into four shaped corners, and with double guard band border, primary border, and single border all woven with flower heads.
Approximate dimensions: 3 feet 11 inches x 5 feet 11 inches..
Condition: Very good condition. Appears not to have been used.
Estimate: $150 - $250
Lot# 92
Baluch Turkmen Rug
Geometric multi-medallion motif on red ground, the main border with double guards woven in reds, cream, dark blue, brown.
Approximate dimensions: 7 feet 4 inches x 5 feet 4 inches..
Condition: Thin line of pile loss towards the middle. Loss to fringe, mainly on one end. Small loss to edge.
Estimate: $150 - $200
Lot# 100
Louis XVI Style Parquetry Writing Table
Circa 1900.
Shaped rectangular top over single drawer on four cabriolet legs, gilt bronze rail, hardware mounts to knees and sabots the top with gilt tooled leather inset.
Approximate dimensions: 30 1/4 high x 31 1/2 wide x 20 1/4 inches deep..
Condition: Staining and wear to leather top drawer very tight, does not come out all the way, minor losses and lifting to parquetry particularly to legs, scratching and wear to surfaces consistent with use.
Estimate: $750 - $1500
Lot# 104
Set of Ten Chippendale Style Mahogany Dining Chairs
Late 20th Century.
Carved with scrolling foliate, pierced splats, excurvate arms, foliate carved knees, the cabriolet legs terminating in claw and ball feet.
Approximate dimensions: Armchairs: 39 1/2 high x 26 1/2 wide x 22 1/2 inches deep side chairs 40 1/4 high x 24 1/2 wide x 22 1/4 inches deep..
Condition: Surface wear to wood frames glue residue visible on undersides of frames.
Estimate: $250 - $450
Lot# 116
19th Century Flemish Marquetry Bombe Display Cabinet
Circa 1880.
Carved with serpentine crest, over glazed side and front door panels, above three long drawers, shaped sides, carved skirt,over cased base on scroll feet. Vining foliate, feather and scroll motifs inlaid to crest, doors, drawers, sides, and figural inlay to feet. Scroll and urn gilt brass escutcheons and handles.
Approximate dimensions: 88 high x 76 wide x 22 inches deep..
Condition: Cracks and splits to wood, the doors slightly separated from the cabinet. the middle drawer with a crack down the center.
Estimate: $1000 - $2000
Lot# 120
Victorian Parcel Ebonized Dresser with Marble Top
Shaped red marble top with white and gray veins, three drawers with brass pulls, parcel ebonized trim, carved decorations throughout.
Approximate dimensions: 32 high x 51 1/2 wide x 22 1/2 inches deep..
Condition: Some surface wear throughout, rubbing and loss to ebonized trim mainly to the base, the marble top with repairs to cracks, patina to brass, minor loss to some trim elements, loss to back panel, some repair and minor loss to veneer..
Estimate: $200 - $300
Lot# 132
1920s Tall Oak Jardiniere / Tiered Fern Stand
The oak straight sided cylindrical body parquetry body with carved descending foliate designs to bands, alternating with painted floral sprays, over exaggerated long legs. conjoined by a circular lower tier inset wiht porcelain plaque, over carved, gently splayed feet. Apron below the top, carved with shells,trellis, and scrolls.
Approximate dimensions: 65 high x 14 inches diameter..
Condition: Surface wear, losses to veneer, cracking, staining, and discoloration to wood.
Estimate: $400 - $600
