Bring your auction to collectors worldwide!
Get listed nowBy subscribing, you are agreeing to the privacy policy. Unsubscribe anytime.
Barnebys HQ
Brahegatan 10
BOX 5038
114 37 Stockholm
All auctions / Ethnographic / Head ornament (2)
Traditionally bead-decorated snuff box or bamboo tube, as made and worn by various East and South African peoples (such as the Maasai or groups in Northern Nguni/southern Africa). Here is a beautiful head ornament with beads and shells, of which one is missing an early specimen with age and not intended for the tourist. The object consists of a central cylindrical holder of reddish-brown material (possibly wood or bamboo), with pieces of leather or hide at the ends and fine beadwork in striking colors such as red, blue, white, and green, attached to a longer strap made of leather and beads. Such tubes were traditionally used for storing tobacco (snuff) or medicinal powders.
Estimate:$168.03
Sold for:-
View all items fromCatawikiorEthnographic
Hammer price:
-
Estimate:
$168.03
OCT 27 | 4:00 PM
OCT 23 | 8:00 AM
Bring your auction to collectors worldwide!
Get listed now$974.47
Est: $1,211.81
A large carved and painted gesso model of a putto or cherub ...
10/13/2026
$793.81
Est: $663.38
A Tibetan Kapala human skull with white metal and cabochon g...
10/13/2026
$1,455.32
Est: $530.7
A large, scarce circus clown, ‘ball swallower’ game model in...
10/13/2026
$1,058.41
Est: $1,061.4
OCT 17 | 10:00 PM
