Ethnographica & Tribal Art

A previously unrecorded family archive relating to Richard Grindall (1751-1820), an able seaman aboard Cook’s Second Voyage, surfaced for sale in London last week with spectacular results.

This wooden Nagaland pipe from north-east India is offered at this month’s Tribal Art Fair online. Available from Shropshire dealership Handbury Tribal Art, it comes from a UK private collection and is priced at €750.

Fang secret society relic comes with long provenance to French colonial governor

A striking and well-provenanced example of an African mask from the Fang peoples of Gabon is to appear at an auction in the south of France on March 26.

A 19th century sea otter amulet in walrus ivory and baleen fashioned as a mother and her pup sold for £24,000 at Woolley & Wallis (25% buyer’s premium).

“The owner had no idea what they were or what they might be worth. Not a Scooby.”

One of New York’s most prolific antiquities collectors has surrendered 180 ‘looted’ items from his collection and been barred for life from acquiring antiquities again.

Non-European ethnographic art is a one of the new categories at Fine Arts Paris, represented by Patrick and Ondine Mesdagh from Brussels who will be showing a selection of pieces from four continents.

A Maori hei-tiki pendant offered in Cheltenham on September 16 had an old paper label verso stating that it originally belonged to Makoare Te Taonui.

A rare standing figure from the Yuat River area of Papua New Guinea was the star of the show at a Brussels auction.

Dealer and collector Kenn Mackay developed an interest in ethnographic art during his travels in the early 1980s.

Always a bonus for buyers is two fairs in the same venue on the same day.

Only a handful of companies have created products with sufficient impact that their brand names become generic descriptions for objects of their type.

Figures from the region that is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo will be the subject of the themed exhibition 'Kongo' that Galerie Lucas Ratton on the rue Bonaparte will be putting on for Parcours des Mondes.

“I have always been interested in stone,” says dealer Anthony Meyer.

Sotheby’s New York is holding an online auction from September 7-13 featuring 50 examples of sculpture from across the world’s continents selected from the longstanding collection of Martin and Faith-Dorian Wright.

For its Parcours exhibition the Galerie Serge Schoffel from Brussels will be focusing on the Timoto-Cuica, a culture that flourished between 800-1200AD in the area that is now the Trujillo province in Venezuela.

Laurent Dodier is a longstanding exhibitor at Parcours des Mondes.

Tribal Art London (TAL), the UK’s main fair dedicated to the collecting field, will be a virtual event this year.