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TOM HURST
Tom Hurst has collected Tribal Art from a young age, passionate and focused he has an eclectic collection with many of his pieces attached to historically important provenances.
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Exhibits
Elema drum
Papuan Gulf, Papua New Guinea
Late 19th C
72cm long
£2750
In the form of a shark or crocodile's open mouth, this drum
has four spirit/ancestral faces and, unusually, the decoration
continues around the handle. It has a wonderful
old surface and traces of white pigment. Old shadow where drum head string was.
A Haida carved rifle stock
North West Coast
Mid-late 19th C
53cm long
£1850
A US Springfield rifle that made its way over to the Haida. US stamped on the butt plate. Possibly an 1855 model M1855 Springfield Carbine.
Carved with a raven head and a running/crouching bear, it must have later broken whilst in the Haida's possession, the stock now only remaining. Applied leather wrap.
A leopard mask
Possibly Tanzanian
Early 20th C
20.5cm high
£650
Not exactly sure of the origin of this mask, a bit of a mystery. It has a good encrusted surface. An old break/repair, loose.
A Latmul turtle shell and wickerwork armband
Central Sepik, Papua New Guinea
Early-mid 20th Century
17cm high
£850
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Two Ingessana throwing knives (sai)
Sudan
Both 84cm long
£450
Very fine decoration, unusual figurative depictions to one, a man riding a camel and a man with a sword.
A Marupai ornament
Papuan Gulf, Papua New Guinea
12.5cm long
£560
A dwarf coconut, decoration infilled with lime, remnants of blue pigment. A lovely tactile object.
A Kongo terracotta pipe bowl
Congo
5.5cm long
Provenance: Ex. Trevor Barton Pipe Collection
£165
Figure to front and stylized spider. Very slight chips.
A Nassa shell armband
Papua New Guinea
13cm long
£180
A horn pipe
Congo
Late19th C
45cm long
Provenance: Ex. Trevor Barton Pipe Collection
£340
Wonderful form.
A group of ten brass Ashanti goldweights
Ghana
19th C
Longest 5.5cm
Provenance: Ex. Professor Leonard E. Newton Collection.
£520
A Yoruba Kola nut box in the form of a rabbit
Nigeria
Early 20th C
23cm long
£380
A rather charming representation of a rabbit.
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Two Igorot pipes.
Northern Luzon, Philippines
Late 19th and early 20th C
14cm and 18cm long
Provenance: Ex. Trevor Barton Pipe Collection
£280 each.
One has canework to stem and a clay bowl with a bird's head (very slightly chipped), possibly Tinguian people, the other brass, the bowl being a figure, it also has its scraper.
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Two Mangbetu ivory oliphants
Congo
Late19th C
35cm and 48.5cm long
Provenance: Ex. Professor Jim Green Collection
Larger of the two SOLD the smaller £110
One with a large chunk missing and the other cracked, although nice and tight.
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A steatite pipe
Possibly from Afghanistan
14.5cm long
Provenance: Ex. Trevor Barton Pipe Collection.
£250
This is probably in the form of a Bactrian deer, having circle decoration.
A similar example in the Amsterdam Pipe Museum. No. APM 07.875
An iron horse bit. Bauchi province
Nigeria
19th C
50.5cm long
Provenance: Arthur Holdsworth Groom, District Officer, Nigeria 1905 - 1917.
Loaned to the Castle Museum, Norwich in 1911.
Liverpool Museum.
£240
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A boar tusk currency bracelet
New Hebrides
Early-mid 20th C
10.5cm in diamiter
£160
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A Benin anthropomorphic leopard box
Late 19th C
46.5cm long
Provenance: The Reverent Edward Thomas Pakenham, Church Missionary Society Superintendent. Stationed in Owo, Oshogbo and Lagos 1909-1921.
SOLD
Old break to tail.
An Inuit seal skin pouch
13cm long
£145
Probably for fish hooks. A few small worn patches.
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A Senufo bird head heddle pulley
18cm high without stand
£125
An old repair with nails
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Three leather belts.
Tibet
19th C
Provenance: Ex. Trevor Barton Pipe Collection
£495
Two belts have tinder or flint pouches (chuckmucks), one with two pouches, two with knives, one with a pair of cased tongs and the other with a medicine spoon, (probably silver). Also a belt with brass mounts depicting animals, also another tinder pouch.
A Zulu shield
South Africa
19th C
60.5cm long
£180