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Lot of seven ethnographic objects ·  West, East and South Africa · ID: 3052379

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Provenance
August Bödiger, Bonn,12 November 1993, lot 1289 (a)
Collection Mann, Leipzig, Germany (b)
Auktionshaus Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 19 April 1997, lot 82 (b)
Old German Colonial Collection (c)
Auktionshaus Zemanek-Münster, 8 July 2000, lot 326 (c)
Old German Colonial Collection (1917) (d)
Auktionshaus Zemanek-Münster, 8 July 2000, lot 703 (d)
August Bödiger, Bonn, 20 November 1992, lot 1430 (e)
August Bödiger, Bonn, 20 November 1992, lot 1430 (f)
Collection Mann, Leipzig, Germany (g)
Auktionshaus Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 1998 (g)
Elmar Wellenhöfer, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

Description

a) speakers staff, wood, Akan, Ghana, h: 19 cm;
b) stone chips from “Cape Bianca”, West Africa, in a metal tin;
c) fan, old collection label “… fan from Lome (Togo)”, H: 35 cm;
d) wooden pipe from Tanzania, East Africa, with old collector’s label, l: 31 cm; e) tobacco lid with old handwritten collection label “southern Tanganyika”, East Africa, h: 16.5 cm;
f) “Kaffir gift bag” (according to label), East Africa, l: 26 cm;
g) pearl jewellery with cowrie shells, l: 40 cm, w: 15 cm


The object Lot of seven ethnographic objects with the object ID 3052379 was last part of the auction Collectors’ Items Sale at September 24, 2025 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 84.

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