May 27, 2017

86th Tribal Art Auction

Volume I: The collection Walter Schmidt – classic tribal art in post-war Germany (special catalogue). Volume II: Fine old tribal art from Africa, Asia, Oceania and North America. The Berlin collection from the architect and artist Ludwig Leicher (1895-1963). Objects from the Africa collection of the artist Bernhard Jäger.

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Highlights

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Lot 1: Standing female figure "kambei"
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Lot 3: Antelope dance crest "sogi-ni-kun"
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Lot 9: Kneeling figure with snake
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Lot 10: Head sculpture "baathil"
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Lot 16: Standing male figure "asie usu" or " blolo bian"
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Lot 23: Anthropomorphic face mask "gu"
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Lot 29: Top of a figural carved staff "tefalapica" or "tefalipitya"
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Lot 31: Mask "kpélié"
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Lot 32: Anthropomorphic "tu bodu" mask from the "lo" group
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Lot 38: Standing ancestor figure
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Lot 40: Janus-faced dance wand "oshe shango"
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Lot 41: Beautiful old dance wand "oshe shango"
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Lot 53: Standing male figure
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Lot 54: Reliquary figure "mbulu" or "mwete"
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Lot 65: Small power figure "nkisi"
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Lot 74: Aged and extremely fine work of a sitting "Avalokiteshvara"
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Lot 86: Standing male figure "moai tangata"
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Lot 131: Standing female figure "kambei" or "lomba"
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Lot 134: Dance crest
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Lot 148: Standing female figure
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Lot 153: Mask
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Lot 167: Dance crest
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Lot 168: Mask with horns
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Lot 175: Standing female figure "d'mba"
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Lot 181: Standing hermaphrodite
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Lot 190: Mask
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Lot 193: Kneeling figure with lip plug
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Lot 194: Kneeling female figure
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Lot 229: Monkey mask "gban"
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Lot 230: Anthropomorphic bowl-bearing monkey figure "amwin" or "amwin ba"
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Lot 233: Seated male figure with lance
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Lot 243: Receptacle with anthropomorphic lid "kwle"
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Lot 244: Anthropomorphic mask "zakpai"
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Lot 250: Mask "gu" with coiffure from amulet pouches, before 1920
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Lot 258: Mask
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Lot 259: Rare mask
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Lot 275: Beautiful face mask, around 1910/20
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Lot 300: Rare headcrest "ogbom"
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Lot 323: Anthropomorphic dance crest, before 1905
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Lot 328: Ancestor figure
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Lot 360: Mask "ngoin", before 1914
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Lot 367: Ancestor figure "éyéma-o-byéri", Ngoumba Style
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Lot 370: Standing male ancestor figure "tadep"
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Lot 414: Seated female figure "wayinda"
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Lot 427: Caryatid stool "kihona", before 1909
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Lot 444: Female commemorative figure "efomba"
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Lot 458: Mask
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Lot 459: Power figure "nkisi"
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Lot 460: Male power figure "nkisi"
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Lot 464: Rare shield, before 1900

86th Tribal Art Auction

Lot 101 : Mask for the "cham" dance
North Nepal, Helambu Region
not available anymore
Lot 102 : Mask "Bhairava" or "Mahakala"
Northern Nepal, Rasuwa District, border to Tibet
not available anymore
Lot 103 : Unusual anthropomorphic terracotta mask
Nepal
not available anymore
Lot 104 : Mask
West Nepal, Jajarkot District
not available anymore
Lot 105 : Dagger "khanjar"
India
collected in 1980
sold EUR 450
Lot 106 : Dagger
India
collected in the 1980's
sold EUR 350
Lot 107 : Dagger "katar"
India
collected in 1988
sold EUR 650
Lot 108 : Breast and neck ornament for men
India, Naga
German Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 109 : Flute "kandeling"
Tibet
collected in 1978
sold EUR 250
Lot 110 : Buddhist amulet container "gau"
Tibet
collected in 1978
not available anymore
Lot 111 : Prayer tube pendant
Tibet
collected in 1990
not available anymore
Lot 112 : Three arrows
Papua New Guinea
Ludwig Leicher, Berlin, Germany
sold EUR 100
Lot 113 : Pair of "timbuwara" figures
Papua New Guinea - Southern Highlands
Chris Boylan, Sydney, Australia
not available anymore
Lot 114 : Spear thrower
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
Rob Vervoort, Brussels, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 115 : Hand drum "kundu"
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
Pater Daniel Huba (1928-2010), Lorsch, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 116 : Hook figure "yipwon"
Papua New Guinea - Sepik, Upper Korewori, Yimam, Alamblak
Pater Daniel Huba (1928-2010), Lorsch, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 117 : Cult hook figure "yipwon"
Papua New Guinea - Sepik (upper), Korewori, Alamblak
Pater Daniel Huba (1928 - 2010), Lorsch, Germany Huba worked as a missionary for the Steyler Mission in Papua New Guinea from 1960 to 1983. He received the objects as a gift from the indigenous people.
sold EUR 12,000
Lot 118 : Hook-shaped object
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
Missionsmuseum St. Augustin, Bonn, Germany (Inventory no "71.7.82") Loed van Bussel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
not available anymore
Lot 119 : Club with stone head "palao"
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago
Lempertz, Brussels, 22 January 2013, lot 184 Hans Reinmöller, Ratingen, Germany
sold EUR 300
Lot 120 : Beautiful old spear with intact obsididan tip, before 1914
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - Admirality Islands
Old German Colonial Collection, before 1914
sold EUR 500
Lot 121 : Spear with bipartite tip, before 1914
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - Admirality Islands
Old German Colonial Collection, before 1914
sold EUR 500
Lot 122 : Two clubs, before 1914
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Britain, Sulka
Old German Colonial Collection, before 1914
sold EUR 3,000
Lot 123 : Two ceremonial spears, before 1914
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipel - St. Matthias Inseln
Old German Colonial Collection, before 1914
sold EUR 600
Lot 124 : Outrigger canoe model
Papua New Guinea - Humboldt Bay
Douglas Barrett, London, Great Britain Michael Evans, Djion, France
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 125 : Canoe paddle "hose", before 1914
Salomonen - Buka or Bougainville Island
Old German Colonial Collection, before 1914
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 126 : Shark tooth club
Kiribati - Gilbert Islands
Old British Collection
not available anymore
Lot 127 : Dance club "gugu"
Fidji Islands
Douglas Barrett, London, Great Britain
not available anymore
Lot 128 : Boomerang
Australia, Western Victoria Area
sold EUR 2,100
Lot 129 : Large doll "kwasaitaka katsina" ("dress", "seed" or "three nose kachina")
North America, Hopi
sold EUR 2,000
Lot 130 : Doll "sipikne kachina"
North America, Hopi/Zuni
Brant Mackley, Hershey, USA
sold EUR 2,000
Lot 131 : Standing female figure "kambei" or "lomba"
Sierra Leone, Mende
Alfons Bermel, Berlin, Germany Bernhard Jäger, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 132 : Stone figure "nomoli"
Sierra Leone, Kissi
Robert Terwindt, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Arendt Oetker, Berlin, Germany Helmut Gernsheim, Castagnola, Switzerland Bernhard Jäger, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
sold EUR 4,500
Lot 133 : Figural lock of a granary door
Mali, Dogon
Bernhard Jäger, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
sold EUR 1,600
Lot 134 : Dance crest
Nigeria, Eket
Ilka Oberhofer, Passau, Germany (1991) Bernhard Jäger, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
not available anymore
Lot 135 : Standing female figure
Nigeria, Igbo/Izzi
Bernhard Jäger, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
not available anymore
Lot 136 : Spoon
Nigeria, Igbo
Claude Ferrand, Montpellier, France Bert Garrebeek, Beersel, Belgium (1995) Bernhard Jäger, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
not available anymore
Lot 137 : Male twin figure "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba, Igbomina, Ajasse
Ketterer, Munich, 8 April 1989, lot 187 Bernhard Jäger, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
sold EUR 900
Lot 138 : Female twin figure "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba, Igbomina, Ajasse
Rolf Kunitsch, Münster, Germany (1998) Bernhard Jäger, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
sold EUR 900
Lot 139 : Female twin figure "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba, Egbe, Yagba
Peter Loebarth, Hameln, Germany Bernhard Jäger, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
not available anymore
Lot 140 : Half figure "kakudj"
D. R. Congo, Luba
Peter Loebarth, Hameln, Germany (2000) Bernhard Jäger, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
not available anymore
Lot 141 : Standing male figure
D. R. Congo, Tabwa
Peter Loebarth, Hameln, Germany (2003) Bernhard Jäger, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
sold EUR 600
Lot 142 : Power half figure
D. R. Congo, Songye
Ingo Evers, Bonn, Germany (1994) Bernhard Jäger, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
sold EUR 450
Lot 143 : Small standing figure
D. R. Congo/Angola, Chokwe/Holo
Bernhard Jäger, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
sold EUR 500
Lot 144 : Amulet "mikisi mihasi"
D. R. Congo, Luba
Bernhard Jäger, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
sold EUR 400
Lot 145 : Janiform magical figure "kabeja"
D. R. Congo, Luba/Kusu
Ketterer, Munich, 13 November 1982, lot 365 Bernhard Jäger, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
not available anymore
Lot 146 : Standing figure "katanda"
D. R. Congo, Lega
Peter Loebarth, Hameln, Germany (2000) Bernhard Jäger, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
sold EUR 2,500
Lot 147 : Standing figure "iginga"
D. R. Congo, Lega
Rolf Kunitsch, Münster, Germany Bernhard Jäger, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 148 : Standing female figure
D. R. Congo, Vili
Emil Maetzel, Hamburg, Germany Christie's Paris, 1 Decembre 2010, lot 83 Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 3 March 2012, lot 127 Bernhard Jäger, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
not available anymore
Lot 149 : Male power figure "biteki"
D. R. Congo, Teke
Paul Kummert, Frankfurt, Germany (1994) Bernhard Jäger, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
not available anymore
Lot 150 : Standing power figure "phuungu"
D. R. Congo, Yaka
Arnold Bamert, Solothurn, Switzerland Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 28 June 2014, lot 531 Bernhard Jäger, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
sold EUR 2,600