23rd Mar, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST

Militaria & Ethnographica

 
Lot 3230
 

3230

An Xhosa Chief's Staff, of dark hard wood, with globular pommel, the slender tapering cylindrical haft carved with two figures clinging backwards and centred by a lizard, 96.5cm; a Zulu Directing Staff, of waddie form, bound with three bands of woven steel wire, 65cm; an African Rank Staff, in dark wood, of spear form carved with panels of reeding and chevrons, 76cm (3)

Provenance:- From the Collection of the late Dr Elizabeth Ann Carswell, nee Turner (1940-2019)

Sold for £90
Estimated at £180 - £250


 

Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 23rd Mar, 2022

Militaria and Ethnographica Sales encompass items across diverse areas of collecting, from European and Eastern armour to 18th and 19th century firearms, military uniforms and documents, edged weapons, World War I and World War II ephemera, masonic regalia and medals.
Also included are a vast range of objects created in the early 20th century or earlier by indigenous cultures around the world, from early American civilisations to African tribes and Polynesian island cultures, incorporating religious idols, domestic and ritual objects, figurative sculpture, jewellery and weapons of all descriptions.

 

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