Early 20th C. Indonesian Kris Abstract Anthropomorphic

**Originally Listed At $300** Southeast Asia, Indonesia, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A personal ceremonial steel, brass, and wood kris (keris) sword with a hand-carved wooden handle that feature

Southeast Asia, Indonesia, ca. early 20th century CE. A beautiful personal ceremonial sword known as a kris (also keris). The hand-carved wooden handle features a pair of abstract anthropomorphic mask

Southeast Asia, Indonesia, ca. mid to late 20th century CE. A beautiful kris (also keris) with an abstract anthropomorphic wooden handle. The iron blade exhibits a gently oscillating profile with serp

**Originally Listed At $550** Southeast Asia, Indonesia, ca. mid-20th century CE. A beautiful kris (also keris) with a wooden handle featuring 8 abstract anthropomorphic maskettes along the interior a

Southeast Asia, Indonesia, ca. mid to late 20th century CE. A beautiful kris (also keris) with an abstract anthropomorphic wooden handle. The iron blade exhibits a gently oscillating profile with serp

Southeast Asia, Indonesia, ca. mid-20th century CE. A beautiful kris (also keris) with a wooden handle featuring 8 abstract anthropomorphic maskettes along the interior and exterior curves. Beneath th

**Originally Listed At $300** Southeast Asia, Indonesia, ca. mid-19th to early 20th century CE. A lovely kris with a forged-steel blade bearing a gently oscillating profile, a pointed guard above shar

Southeast Asia, Indonesia, ca. 19th to early 20th century CE. A personal ceremonial sword known as a kris (also keris) with a hand-carved dugong ivory handle bearing an abstract phytomorphic form; ben

Southeast Asia, Indonesia, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A dramatic example of a kris (keris) with a gorgeous cow horn handle. An artist has painstakingly carved the horn to have two faces on the

**Originally Listed At $400** Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Sumatra, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A beautiful example of a forged-iron kris (keris), a ceremonial personal sword with a handle and sca

Southeast Asia, Indonesia, ca. early 20th century CE. A lovely personal dagger known as a kris (also keris) meant to be carried on special occasions. The spool-shaped wooden handle has thin twisted th

Southeast Asia, Indonesia, ca. early 20th century CE. A lovely ceremonial sword known as a kris (keris) with a nickel-silver jacket covering the hand-carved wooden sheath. The wooden handle bears a pa

**Originally Listed At $300** Southeast Asia, Indonesia, ca. early 20th century CE. A lovely example of a ceremonial kris (keris) sword. The iron blade has a relatively straight profile with a thin, p

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TRIO OF ZULU MILK CONTAINERS, AMATHUNGA SOUTH AFRICA, EARLY 20TH CENTURY carved wood, the first of abstract anthropomorphic appearance, a dark caramel colour, with triangular sections of grooved carvi

Central Africa, Gabon, Kota peoples, Mahongwe group, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. An interesting finial of an abstract anthropomorphic figure skillfully carved from wood and almost complete

Indonesia, from South Sulawesi, blade is mid-19th century CE, scabbard and handle are late 19th to early 20th century CE. This is a keris (kris), with a narrow, sinuously curving blade and an intricat

**First Time At Auction** Southeast Asia, Indonesia, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. An incredibly ornate and quite opulent kris and sheath adorned with inlaid high-quality (99%) repousse silv

Southeast Asia, Indonesia, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A beautiful kris (also keris), a personal ceremonial sword used throughout Indonesia. The figural wooden handle depicts a crouching d

Africa, Ivory Coast, Senufo peoples, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. An interesting example of a "kafigeledjo" (oracle figure) from the Ivory Coast. The figure is tall with abstract anthropomorphic

Madura, Indonesia, c. 19th-early 20th century; A very nice example, the handle of classic form. The blade is quite unusual in that it has an additional two thin tines near the base. The scabbard of fi

A SLENDER INDONESIAN KRIS, PANJANG Indonesia, Panjang, early 20th century. The slender and straight iron gandar (blade) with its protruding thorn-shaped ganja. Set with a copper Mendak and a delicatel

**Originally Listed At $400** West Africa, Burkina Faso, Mossi people, ca. early 20th century CE. A charming, hand-carved wooden stool of abstract anthropomorphic form. The "back" of the figure is the

**Originally Listed At $500** Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Timor Island, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden ancestral face mask of an abstract presentation with openwork eyes and mou