Zulu with Short spear (iklwa), cord across chest, animal skin apron: [IMG]https://www.africancraftsmarket.com/african-tribes/zulu-people.html...
I think I would find another auctioneer.......
Ottoman yataghan/yatagan: [IMG] https://www.bukowskis.com/en/lots/1132057-swords-yatagan-yataghan-3-pcs-ottoman-turkey-possibly-19th-century...
i have seen that style of pommel on Turkish blades, often made of walrus tusk, so Ottoman Bosnia might be a possibility. Let me see if I can find...
Inca? where does that idea come from? Weirdest Inca I have ever seen......
None of us had some very important information. We can only give advice based on what we can see in the photos. And sometimes a quick sale seems...
Yes, that sums it up, (in my opinion).
The first figure looks like a caricature of a Zulu warrior of South Africa - the arm band, the cord across the chest, the leopard skin apron, and...
I believe your stool was made for sale, and not in a strictly traditional style that I recognize. This makes it difficult to place. It could be...
With the blue-green corrosion products, I suspect you may have a combination of copper carbonates (essentially azurite, from a reaction between...
What a wonderful story! It shows that it is very helpful to understand where people are coming from - historically and geographically.
Some better photos of the individual pieces would be helpful, but from what I can see they look like pre-columbian textiles from Peru. And yes,...
Responsible, yes, in the sense that the original peoples of the Americas (North, Central, South and Caribbean) would not have been largely...
I am not sure I understand your point, but it is not a matter of blame. It is about trying to understand human history as much as we can.
Just as they have found evidence of Vikings and earlier people travelling by boat along the northern coastlines between Iceland, Greenland and...
I would not want to venture an opinion on the age or authenticity of either of the sculptures. You might try contacting the curatorial department...
The smaller one looks like it might be either an ambrotype or a tintype. It is difficult to tell from your photo, but if you can identify what the...
There are apparently a variety of Elaeocarpus species with slightly different endocarps that have been used as beads. "In India the species most...
The seed things look like they are the endocarps of the fruits of the Blue Marble tree, Elaeocarpus grandis. [IMG]...
My British-Canadian professor was always using that line, sometimes reversed as appropriate (or inappropriate?). Right up there in colorful...
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