March 7, 2020

94th Tribal Art Auction

Fine old Tribal Art from Africa, Australia, Oceania, Asia and America. The Stockholm Tribal Art Collection of Peter Willborg (special catalogue). Art works from Africa and Oceani from the Swiss private collection of Walter Stanley Schwab. Pre-Columbian artworks from the German private collection of Anna Maria Posset.

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Highlights

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Lot 1: Headrest with classical ancestral representations
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Lot 15: Helmet mask "ndoli jowei" of the "sande" (or "bundu") society
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Lot 34: Mask with tubular eyes
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Lot 40: Deformation mask "idiok ekpo"
1/5
Lot 43: Anthropomorphic headdress of the "oglinye" society
1/6
Lot 46: Mask with articulated lower jaw "karikpo"
1/4
Lot 52: Male twin figure "ere ibeji"
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Lot 71: Standing male figure "mukuya"
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Lot 72: Standing female figure "mukuya"
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Lot 73: Kneeling female figure with child
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Lot 75: Caryatid stool "kipona" ("kihona")
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Lot 76: Standing male ancestor figure "singiti" with hoe
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Lot 77: Power figure "nkisi nkondi"
1/5
Lot 82: Power figure "buti"
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Lot 98: Janus figure with prominent coiffure
1/5
Lot 104: Delicate head- / neckrest "mutsago"
1/5
Lot 122: Rare war headdress "painale"
1/5
Lot 133: Standing female figure, ca. 500-900 AD
1/4
Lot 136: Sitting figure of the "Baby Face" type, ca. 1000-800 BC
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Lot 141: "Hacha" in shape of a human skull in profile, ca. 500-950 AD
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Lot 181: Standing female figure "asie usu" or "blolo bla"
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Lot 191: Male twin figure "ere ibeji"
1/5
Lot 199: Grave figure "ntadi" in reflective posture ("fumani")
1/5
Lot 200: Power Figure "nkisi / nkishi"
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Lot 210: Rare mask "okobuzogui"
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Lot 216: Staff with female figure "solima bere"
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Lot 227: Beautiful portrait mask "ndoma"
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Lot 229: Anthropomorphic face mask "kpan" of the "goli" group
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Lot 232: Maternité
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Lot 240: Heddle pulley "kono" with anthropomorphic head and bowl
1/5
Lot 245: Seated female figure
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Lot 248: Face mask "bla" (ram) or "tu bodu" (bush cow)
1/4
Lot 252: Fetish object "bochio" with eight figures
1/6
Lot 253: Anthropomorphic mask
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Lot 267: Male dance crest "aku wunu"
1/6
Lot 273: Rare zoomorphic mask "gugwom" (crocodile?)
1/8
Lot 276: Anthropomorphic figure "iagalagana"
1/6
Lot 279: Anthropomorphic mask
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Lot 286: Male twin figure "ere ibeji"
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Lot 292: Rare reliquary figure "éyéma-o-byéri"
1/5
Lot 296: Anthropomorphic dance crest "mbaing"
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Lot 331: Staff of office "kibango"
1/5
Lot 343: Female kifwebe" mask "kikashi"
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Lot 345: Male power figure "nkisi/ nkishi"
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Lot 355: Female power figure "nkisi", before 1904
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Lot 359: Chief's stool with female caryatid figure
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Lot 360: Male ancestor spirit mask "chihongo"
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Lot 363: Chief's throne with figural decoration

94th Tribal Art Auction

Lot 152 : Fixing rod with seven holes, ca. 1000-1400 AD
Peru, Middle Coast, Chancay Culture
Ulrich Hoffmann, Stuttgart, Germany (2005/06)
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 153 : Helmet mask "nahua"
Unknown artist, Mexico, Guerrero, Zitlala
American Private Collection
sold EUR 2,600
Lot 154 : Reiseskizzen aus Nord-Ost Afrika
Brehm, Dr. Alfred Edmund
not available anymore
Lot 155 : First Footsteps in East-Africa Or, An Exploration of Harar
Burton, Sir Richard F.
sold EUR 400
Lot 156 : Voyages de Cook. Die drei Reisen
Cook, James
sold EUR 3,000
Lot 157 : Africa
Dapper, Olfert (1636/1639-1689/1690)
sold EUR 2,200
Lot 158 : Voyage au Sénégal
Durand, Jean-Baptiste-Léonard (1742-1812)
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 159 : Africa and its exploration
Livingstone, David; Henry Morton Stanley among others
sold EUR 400
Lot 160 : Ludolfi Historia Aethiopica
Ludolf, Hiob
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 161 : Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique
Mungo-Park, M.
sold EUR 300
Lot 162 : Antique Works of Art from Benin
Lieutenant-General Pitt Rivers F.R.S.
sold EUR 400
Lot 163 : Ethiopian manuscript, 18th century (?)
Unknown author
sold EUR 225
Lot 164 : Ethiopian manuscript
Unknown author
sold EUR 300
Lot 165 : Coptic psalm book, ethiopian manuscript, 18th century
Unknown author
sold EUR 300
Lot 166 : Very rare astrological manuscript from Ethiopia
Unknown author
sold EUR 850
Lot 167 : Canoe paddle, before 1914
Salomonen - Buka or Bougainville Island
Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 316")
sold EUR 800
Lot 168 : Dance club, before 1914
Salomonen - Buka or Bougainville Island
Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 315")
sold EUR 400
Lot 169 : Spear
New Caledonia, Kanak
Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland
sold EUR 350
Lot 170 : Extremely rare dance wand "aviya"
Papua New Guinea - Golf, Purari Delta, Maipua / Elema
Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 108")
sold EUR 600
Lot 171 : Squatting male figure "nomoli"
Sierra Leone, Sapi / Sherbro
Paolo Morigi, Magliaso-Lugano, Switzerland (1976) Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 88")
sold EUR 3,600
Lot 172 : Head sculpture "nomoli"
Sierra Leone, Sapi / Sherbro
Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 247") (1976)
sold EUR 500
Lot 173 : Small figure "pomdo"
Sierra Leone, Kissi
Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 396")
sold EUR 450
Lot 174 : Male half figure "pomdo"
Sierra Leone, Kissi
Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 86")
sold EUR 600
Lot 175 : Kneeling warrior with shield and half figure
Sierra Leone, Kissi
Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 234") (1978)
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 176 : Female figure with magical appendages
Sierra Leone, Mende
Paolo Morigi, Magliaso-Lugano, Switzerland Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 162") (1977)
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 177 : Handle shaft with Janus-faced knob
Liberia, Nimba County, Mano
Paolo Morigi, Magliaso-Lugano, Switzerland ("413") Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 428") (1978)
sold EUR 400
Lot 178 : Anthropomorphic figure
Mali, Dogon
Hans Kohler, Switzerland Han Coray (1880-1974), Zurich/Agnuzzo, Switzerland ("HC 19") Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 445") (1971)
sold EUR 500
Lot 179 : Standing figure "waka sona", around 1920
Côte d'Ivoire, Bouaké Region, Baule
Paolo Morigi, Magliaso-Lugano, Switzerland ("418") Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 496") (2000)
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 181 : Standing female figure "asie usu" or "blolo bla"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
René Gardi (1909-2000), Bern, Switzerland (coll. in situ in the late 1940s/early 1950s) Serge Brignoni (1903-2002), Bern, Switzerland (mid-1950s) Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 464") (1996)
sold EUR 1,700
Lot 182 : Guardian mask
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 380")
sold EUR 400
Lot 183 : Helmet mask "bo nun amuin"
Côte d'Ivoire, Bouakè, Baule
presumably Paolo Morigi, Magliaso-Lugano, Switzerland Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 233") (1978)
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 184 : Mask with narrow eyes and forehead ridge "deangle"
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan
British Collection, London Charles Sollberger, Bern/Biel, Switzerland Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 155") (1958)
sold EUR 400
Lot 185 : Anthropomorphic mask with crowning bird
Côte d'Ivoire, Guro / Yaure
Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 361")
sold EUR 650
Lot 186 : Door of a granary
Côte d'Ivoire, Korhogo Region, Senufo
Han Coray (1880-1974), Zurich/Agnuzzo, Switzerland ("HC 30") Paolo Morigi, Magliaso-Lugano, Switzerland (1976) Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 166")
sold EUR 900
Lot 189 : Small anthropomorphic figure "tugubele"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
René Gardi (1909-2000), Bern, Switzerland Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland (1955)
sold EUR 900
Lot 191 : Male twin figure "ere ibeji"
Akinola, son of Faleye, Nigeria, Yoruba, Joga Orile village
Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 349")
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 192 : Male pair of twin figures "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba, Abeokuta
Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 263 A/B")
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 195 : Janiform magical figure "kabeja"
D. R. Congo, Northern Shaba Region, Maniema Area, Hemba
Georges Frederick Keller (1899-1981), Paris, France Paolo Morigi, Magliaso-Lugano, Switzerland Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 212") (1980)
not available anymore
Lot 196 : Two power figures
D. R. Congo
Walter Stanley Schwab), Murten, Switzerland (coll. in situ, 1968/69) (a & b)
sold EUR 400
Lot 199 : Grave figure "ntadi" in reflective posture ("fumani")
D. R. Congo, Lower Congo province / Northern Angola, Bambona
Gottfried Künzi, Oberdorf / Solothurn Switzerland Arnold Bamert, Solothurn, Switzerland (1967 or 1970) Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 555") (2005)
sold EUR 3,200
Lot 200 : Power Figure "nkisi / nkishi"
D. R. Congo, Songye
Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 94") (2001)
sold EUR 1,600
Lot 201 : Power figure "khosi"
D. R. Congo, Suku / Holo
Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 261") (coll. in situ, 1969/70)
sold EUR 350
Lot 202 : Rare power figure with bowl
D. R. Congo / Angola, Holo
Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 82") (1968/69)
sold EUR 750
Lot 203 : Power figure "khosi"
D. R. Congo, Yaka / Suku
Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 620") (1968/69)
sold EUR 400
Lot 204 : Small male power figure
D. R. Congo, Zombo
Netterson, Antwerp, Belgium Nadya Levi & Hermann Norden, Antwerp, Belgium Paolo Morigi, Magliaso-Lugano, Switzerland Walter Stanley Schwab, Murten, Switzerland ("WS 218") (1980)
sold EUR 300
Lot 206 : Throwing knife
Sudan
not available anymore
Lot 207 : Oval bracelet
Sudan / Kongo-Kinshasa, Mangbetu or Azande
not available anymore
Lot 208 : Mask "geh-naw" of the "chu-den-zo" society
Liberia, Bassa
Christophe Rolley, Bagneux, France (2019)
not available anymore
Lot 209 : Bird headdress "a-bemp", "a-bämp" or "koni"
Guinea, Baga
Argiles, Paris, France (2007) John & Nicole Dintenfass, New York, USA
not available anymore
Lot 210 : Rare mask "okobuzogui"
Guinea/ Liberia, Toma/ Loma
Paul & Peggy Rabut, Westport / Connecticut, USA
sold EUR 2,000