Haida or Nootka Tribe Scallop shell rattle with bentwood center, 19 th century British Columbia, Queen Charlotte Island $3,200

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1 #1 Haida or Nootka Tribe Scallop shell rattle with bentwood center, British Columbia, Queen Charlotte Island $3,200 #2 Giant clam shell, Yua or bride price Tridacna with sennit fiber decoration th century Papuan Highland, Papua New Guinea $3,500 #3 Dayak People Wood tool handle in the form of a flying fox or fruit bat, the largest species of bat in the world Indonesia, Borneo $2,500 #4 Dayak People Sickness charm in the form of man with outstretched limbs Late Borneo, Indonesia #5 Toradja People Spoon with boar s tusk, wood & rattan wrapping Sulawesi, Indonesia $2,750

2 #6 Wood sling shot in the form of a muscled male torso Late 19 th /Early 20 th century Thailand or Burma $1,200 #7 Thai Iron Age Culture Shell ear spool c B.C. Thailand Cf. Prehistoric Thailand, Highams & Thosawat, pp 58,59,74,84 $2,500 #8 Danish Neolithic Large grey flint axe Single Grave Culture period c. 2,000-1,700 B.C. Denmark $4,000 #9 Danish Neolithic Finely knapped grey flint chisel Single Grave Culture period c. 2,000-1,700 B.C. Denmark #10 Sub Saharan Tenere culture Banded slate grinding palette c. 6,000-4,000 B.C. Niger or Chad $1,000

3 #11 Sub Saharan Tenere culture Grinding palette with Aeolian (Windblown) patina c. 6,000-4,000 B.C. Niger or Chad $1,000 #12 Stone foot Probably early 2 nd Millennium B.C. Inner Mongolia As opposed to a ritual object, this foot form is more likely a last for making leather shoes. Its relatively large size makes it likely to have belonged to one of the Tocharian speaking peoples of the Tarim Basin, a non-han people $5,000 #13 Tang Dynasty Painted clam shell cosmetic vessel c th century A.D. China $1,250 #14 Liao Dynasty Bronze funerary glove with silver finger covers c. 11 th century A.D. Northeast China or Inner Mongolia $5,500 #15 Group of 5 polychrome wood Houxi miniature masks worn by Monkeys during itinerant countryside theatre performances 19 th - 20 th century South China, Guizhou Province $6,000

4 #16 Nuossu people Pair of lacquered leather and raptor feet Shaman s cups Sichuan, China $6,000 #17 Obsidian spear head or before Easter Island $900 #18-19 Western Thule Culture Eskimos Pair of Chloromelanite (jade) Ear ornaments or amulets said to be used as protection against killer whales 18 th century or earlier Excavated, St. Lawrence Island $5,500 #20 Guro Tribe Mask of a woman carrying a sewing machine on her head Colon (Colonial period) mid-20 th century Ivory Coast $5,000 #21 Wood & metal stirrup Mexico $1,250

5 #22 Slab tomb culture Group of Chinese sword pommel counterweights. These beautifully fashioned stones in dense granite and hematite were slotted into the flat ends of wide butted daggers to add heft and balance to the hand. 1 st Millennium B.C. Northeast China/Korea $3,750 #23 Tairona People Group of 6 red Alabaster Coca spoons for chewing lime in the Coca Ritual. The shells are models of Fasciolaria (Tulip shells), a shell typical of that region that was burned in the actual making of lime. c A.D. Colombia $4,000 #24 Halstatt culture Group of 12 European Bronze Age gold hair spirals and bracelets c B.C Germany or Czech Republic $9,000 #25 Victorian period alabaster Peep show viewer with hand tinted scenes of sights of London, England c England $1,850

6 #26 Evenk people Repousse copper Shaman s mask Northeast Siberia $6,500 #27 Man s bailer shell pectoral ornament Early/mid-20 th century Highlands, Papua New Guinea $1,000 #28 Olmec culture Jade celt, repaired B.C. Mexico #29 Bontoc people Wood spoon with seated male figure Luzon, Northern Philippines $3,000 #30 GoMun culture Ritual slate blade Neolithic period, c B.C Northern Vietnam $3,500

7 #31 GoMun culture Ritual stone lance head Neolithic period, c B.C Northern Vietnam Repair to blade $1,500 #32 Iron horse bog shoe used for collecting cranberries in swamps Early 20 th century United States of America $1,500 #33 Mayan culture Eccentric flint blade in human form c A.D. Mexico Repair to bottom of the blade $4,750 #34 Taino culture Stone grinder with human face c A.D. Cuba or Dominican Republic $1,750 #35 Wood turtle float with coxcomb motif Mid-20 th century Mentawai Islands, Indonesia

8 #36 Wood turtle float with stylized bird head Mid-20 th century Mentawai Islands, Indonesia #37 Wood turtle float with spatulate terminal Mid-20 th century Mentawai Islands, Indonesia #38 Wood shaman s staff with natural zoomorphic handle Island of Sumba, Indonesia $2,750 #39 Paddle shaped harvesting tool Ethiopia $1,250 #40 Taino culture Ritual stone axe or celt with human figure c. 1,000-1,500 B.C. Cuba or Dominican Republic $2,500

9 #41 Stone axe with stylized bird creature and human rider c A.D. Island of Sumba, Indonesia $2,500 #42 Nuossu people Lacquered wood arm guard Sichuan, China #43 Swankalok culture Porcelain bowl from a shipwreck with oyster shells growing on it c. 13/14 th century A.D. South China Sea, Thailand $1,750 #44 Papier maché satirical mask of shaman, from the T alchun dance Korea $4,500 #45 Bactriana Margiana culture Reticulated lead weight with rampant lions c. 2,000-1,500 B.C. Uzbekistan or Afghanistan $8,500

10 #46 Iron Scold s bridle or humiliation mask worn by women c. 17/18 th century. A.D. Western Europe $5,500 #47 Pair of bronze rooster finials c. 2 nd century B.C. Sichuan, China $5,500 #48 Scythian bronze mirror with nude female figure, c. 6/4 th century B.C. Central Asian, found in Uzbekistan or Afghanistan $6,500 #49 Burl wood begging bowl for itinerant monk 18 th century China $3,000 #50 Fired book by Yohei Nishimura Social Economic Movements 2009 $2,000 #51 Nuossu people Lacquered wood, rattan and copper wire Shaman s fan Sichuan, China $3,000

11 #52 SWENSON, ERICK Ne Plus Ultra (Artifact), 2011 Polyurethane resin and acrylic paint 1/10 2 X 10 X 6 in. (5.08 X 25.4 X cm) $10,000