AN EAST AFRICAN LEATHER HIDE-COVERED WAR SHIELD, OROMA, ETHIOPIA, EARLY/MID 20TH CENTURY

Ethiopian Bench with plaited leather seat. Ethiopia, East Africa, Late 19th / Early 20th C. Painted Wood & Leather. Size: 30"H x 74"W x 31"D (188 x 79 x 76 cm).PLEASE NOTE: All auction items are locat

East African Maasai Shield, Early 20th C. The elliptical painted leather shield with red and black decoration, wood handle to the back. Provenance: Farrow Fine Art, San Rafael, CA. Size: 39'' x 26'' x

African , Somalia or Ethiopia. Dark brown leather shield with linear geometric designs incised into the surface in bands. The shield has a raised central section creating a slight cone, numerous bulbo

West Africa, Burkina Faso, Mossi Tribe, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. A carved wooden doll known as a biiga (literally "child") covered in tanned antelope hide and used for play by Mossi girls, as

**Originally Listed At $800** Horn of Africa, Ethiopia, Amarro peoples, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. A large decorative shield made from the hide of either a hippopotamus or buffalo. The circular

Group tribal style rattles & drums, incl. Cherokee, 20th c., (19) pieces, mostly African, materials include wood, metal, animal hide and feathers; one Native American leather-covered wood and gourd ex

Originally listed at $750... East Africa, Ethiopia, ca. early 20th century CE. A sizable processional cross made from silvered brass that is mounted atop a conical shaft adorned in triangular patterns

East Africa, Ethiopia, ca. mid-20th century CE. This is a lovely collection of 4 nickel-silver and silver alloy pendants in the traditional and distinctive Coptic Ethiopian style! The largest is a nic

**First Time At Auction** East Africa, Ethiopia, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. A large hand-carved statue of Madonna and child upon an integral plinth base. Mary is tall and slender, with a pious

**Originally Listed At $100** East Africa, Ethiopia, probably Oromia region, ca. early 20th century CE. A beautiful hand-carved wooden headrest with delicate, elaborate incised decoration on its expos

**Originally Listed At $100** West Africa, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A sizeable drum comprised of a wide slanting wooden ring with an animal hide drumhead stretched over it tied with leather t

Western/Central Africa, Cameroon or Chad, Mandara/Wandala (sometimes Kirdi), ca. early 20th century CE. A massive shield, made of iron overlaid with water buffalo horn and painted with a dark red cros

South Africa, Limpopo and Mpumalanga region, Ndebele people, ca. early 20th century CE. A beautiful hand-beaded leather hide known as a jocolo or bride apron, with 5 petal shaped panels along the lowe

A Native American beaded hide child's jacket, early/mid-20th century, Plateau, with a floral spot motif to the pockets and floral garland decoration around the shoulders, 49cm wide 50cm long, together

A pair of beaded hide tipi ornaments, early/mid-20th century, probably Arapaho, each stuffed hide rosette with a beaded front, decorated with concentric circles in pumpkin and black glass beads pierce

A Native American man's beaded hide war shirt, first quarter of the 20th century, Sioux (Plains), in the 1870s style, the open-sided garment with woollen clothbound round neck, over a triangular hide

Four African Kirdi Cache Sexe Aprons, Cameroon,Early/Mid 20th C. Beads, plant fiber and cowrie shells. Ranging in Size from: 4.5'' x 5'', 11 x 13 cm (object); 10'' x 11'', 25 x 28 cm (stretcher) to 7'

early/mid 20th century, polychrome spruce wood, with applied hide/fur mustache, inlaid abalone shell scar across one cheek, 10-1/4 x 7 x 4 in. Note: Please see online letter from Steven C. Brown discu

Buffalo Hide, quilled horse hair drops, 21" shoulder, 35" long. Worn. Provenance: From the Museum of the Old West at Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Horst Bruning,German, 20th C., leather and chrome plated daybed manufactured by Alfred Kill International,Denmark,bears makers label (Q50E723121){MM} Property Title: From an East 72nd Street, Manhatt

dating: 20th Century provenance: California, Impressive structure covered with black leather, richly chiselled with floral motifs, the pommel covered with silver foil and finely engraved with floral m

Afra & Tobia Scarpa Africa Chair, Ilaly for B & B America Inc., walnut with ebony line inlays, divided lollypop back black leather seat, flat legs, late 20th C, 30 3/4"h. CONDITION: Very good, 3" line

Two Louis Vuitton Early 20th Century Travel Trunks This lot includes two trunks. THE FIRST Travel trunk covered in brown monogram canvas with natural Lozine leather trim and handles, studded wood slat

Early 20th c. French Steamer Trunk by Louis Vuitton, sn 763056, covered in LV monogram canvas, with wooden strapping, leather straps and side handles, with interior ribbon basketry lift-out tray, sten