Tribal Art & Antiquities - 19th September 2018
Lot 229
Two Sioux umbilical fetishes buckskin
Estimate £80 - £120 | Hammer £60
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Description
Two Sioux umbilical fetishes
buckskin, beads, metal cones and dyed horse hair, modelled as a lizard and tortoise,
26cm and 10.5cm long,
a pair of childs buckskin gauntlets with bead decoration, a pair of peg dolls, a male and a female with a child on her back, a plain peg and four sticks, the terminals carved a tortoise, a talon and two horse heads, one with a leather and quill collar. (11)
Provenance
The Ian West Collection.