Tribal Art

A 19th century North African brass bound hardwood box, the hinged lid and sides worked with overall geometric lines, width 30cm. Provenance: from the estate of the late Raymond Briggs, the world-renowned author and illustrator of The Snowman, Father Christmas and Fungus The Bogeyman.

A West African carved hardwood portrait mask, possibly Baule tribe, later mounted on a wooden plinth, height 28cm.

A Benin style patinated bronze head, modelled with headdress and neck rings, height 29cm.

A mid-20th century African Ashante carved wooden stool with typical curved seat and pierced support, width 35cm.

An African hardwood staff, Zulu, the shaft collar finely carved with three bands of diagonal lines, inscribed collector's numbers in red, length 106cm.

A Fijian Vunikau dense hardwood club, probably mid-19th century, the naturalistic root ball head above a tapering shaft, the handle carved with lines of zig-zag, length 115cm.

A group of African weapons, including two hardwood knobkerries, an axe with finely carved head of antelope head form, length 53cm, three spears and a rattan-covered and beaded staff.

A Papua New Guinea bone dagger, the moulded clay head pommel adorned with feathers and cowrie shells, length 35cm, together with an African arm dagger with leather scabbard, length 37cm.

An African carved and painted wooden helmet mask with applied hair and cowrie shells, height 32cm.

An African carved and beaded monkey head helmet mask, probably Bamileke, Cameroon, worked with rattan collar, height 31cm.

An African carved and painted wooden ritual bell of mask form, height 47cm, together with another carved wooden mask.

An African carved and painted wooden mask, possibly Kwele, Gabon, height 37cm, together with a similar helmet mask and another mask.

An African Senufo carved double-faced mask, height 46cm, together with another carved mask, a shield plaque, carved with a portrait of 'The Oba of Benin', height 41cm, another wooden plaque and a group of hair combs.

A group of African carved wooden masks and figures, including two fetish figures, a fly whisk and a carved panel.

An African carved and painted wooden mask, possibly Igbo, height 32cm, together with four other African carved wooden masks.

A group of early/mid-20th century West African metalwares, including a pair of copper anklets or bracelets, length 23cm, a pair of brass bracelets, a Kru brass ring and a pair of large Benin brass manilla, length 28cm.

A group of six African carved and painted wooden masks.

A large African carved and painted wooden mask, length 61cm, another similar mask with canvas headpiece, length 56cm, and a carved figure, height 38cm.

A group of five African carved masks, painted in tones of red, blue and white, length of largest 56cm.