Insects as Human Food

Insects as Human Food; A Chapter of the Ecology of Man by F.S. Bodenheimer. 1951, first edition. Dr. W. Junk, Publishers / The Hague. Excellent. Provenance: Estate of Russell Johanson, Ravenna Rare Bo

DESCRIPTION: Thirteen celadon jade carved pendants. Designs include flowers, dragon, insects, human figures, insects, and Confucius. Qing dynasty was a Manchu-led dynasty and was the last imperial dyn

DESCRIPTION: Ten celadon jade pendants. Designs include flowers, insects, vase, human figure, and peacock. Qing dynasty was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty and was the last imperial dynasty in China. PR

Two Margaret and Luther Gutierrez Polychrome Storyteller Turtles, Signed. Santa Clara Pueblo, Shells are hand painted with icons of food, insects, and animals significant to the Tewa. Approximately 9.

Two Margaret and Luther Gutierrez Polychrome Storyteller Turtles, Signed. Santa Clara Pueblo, Shells are hand painted with icons of food, insects, and animals significant to the Tewa. Approximately 4.

comprising four copper and two carved double sided cookie molds. Largest: 29" high, 4 3/4" wide. Couple dents to copper, wood with old insect damage, food residue.

A Wonderful Rectangular Bronze 'Human Mask' Ritual Food Vessel, Ding , With Inscriptions. Supported on four columnar legs, body is cast with a human mask. From The Ancient Times. Size:24cmx18.5cmx33cm

Rectangular bronze Ding (ritual vessel) with human faceShang Dynasty (c.1600-c.1050 BC). According to my knowledge this must be a later copy of the Da He Ding Bronze, dare not claim otherwise. Made of

DESCRIPTION: Ten celadon jade carved pendants in velvet lined jewelry case. Designs include lingzhi, human figures, insects, vases, flowers, and fu bats. Qing dynasty was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty

AMERICAN FOLK ART CARVED CANE / WALKING STICK, finely carved fist handle over a shaft depicting various creatures, including crabs, insects, and stylized human faces. Retains likely original varnished

Microscopic Preparations and Publications 1) Approx. 240 preparations in 3 boxes, often with artificial varnish or paper border, including animal and human tissues, insects and plants, makers include:

A round serving bowl, three parts.  At the base of each part are engraved decorations of leaves and flowers, four decorated legs. A round cover to protect the food from insects.  Diameter 15 cm.

Offered in this lot is a Pre-Columbian Native American stone mortar and pestle. Mortars and pestles were invented in the Stone Age, when humans found that processing food and various other materials b

RODOLPHO PARAS PEREZ (FILIPINO, 1932-2010)Revelry Woodcut print with color passages, depicting human, animal and insect figures. Titled and numbered lower center 72/210, signed lower right and dated 1

The central panel with embroidered human figures, chickens, frogs (?) insects and geometric motifs in red, blue, gold gray and pink on natural white ground, flanked by solid and patterned narrow and w

Nice effigy of a seated human with a basket of food or goods. 19 grams total weight. Unknown gold content

DESCRIPTION: Fifteen celadon jade carved pendants in velvet lined sectioned jewelry case. Designs include flowers, vases, human figures, Confucius, and insects. Qing dynasty was a Manchu-led imperial

20th century AD. A mixed group of thirty-one silver-coloured finger rings set with lapis lazuli, carnelian, jasper and glass intaglios of various colours, bearing human busts, animal and insect motifs

NO RESERVE Jennings (James) Two Thousand Five Hundred Practical Recipes in Family Cookery; in which the Whole Art of Preparing Food and Drink for the Human Stomach is Simplified and Explained...With a

A Ancient Bronze Quadripod Ritual Food Vessel, Ding, With Inscriptions. Raised on four columnar legs, the rectangular body cast in relief with a large human mask, with a pair of upright loop handles r

Ca. first half 20thC. Fair with insect holes, and wear to the patina, along with light wood loss at the edges as shown. Food bowl tapering to round foot with incised details. Ex-Nooter coll.

DESCRIPTION: Oil on canvas painting depicting a surrealist image of various objects and insects perched on and around and coming out of a human-shaped hedge in the distance. Signed illegibly at lower

The sides of the vessel horizontally grooved below a band of dissolved taotie centered on a simplified mask on two sides, the ring foot cast with a band of hooked diagonals and raised on three faceted

The body rising to an everted rim from tall splayed foot, finely cast around exterior with four large taotie masks reserved on leiwen ground, beneath a band of scrolled motif divided by two bovine mas