Sales catalogue: Stevens

Date:
November 1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/21/664
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Stevens. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    € 640) | 6oy3 4 “| Gg 4i- € 8 iy 641 650 6351 653 653A 654. 654A 32 Two bottles of curiously coloured cubic nitre, and a bottle of crystallized iodine, from the nitrate deposits of Taracapa | (21 by~&. Curious collection of modern Bolivian Indian curios, viz., 2 leather bags, a woollen bag with beads and coins, 2 woollen figures, 3 miniature bales of native rubber, pair of miniature rubber shoes, 2 miniature bales of coca and tea, a miniature copper cooking service, © native ring, 4 carved gourds, a native guitar with arma- dillo base, wooden spoon, wooden chicha mixer, 2 miniature balsas, as used on Lake Titacaca, 2 straw- covered bottles, from Copacabana, and several clay — figures of Indians and cattle Collection of vegetable beads, teeth and claw necklaces, feather headdress, Indian arrows, coco-nut fibre head and caps, 2 bark quilts, and string hammock (Amazonian Indian) 7 Extremely fine jaguar skin, from the Bolivian forests, measuring 8ft. 7in. by 5ft. 114in.; largest of its kind ever brought to Europe eae Large Andean condor skin, with feathers, in good condition Four oil paintings of Indian heads and the Plaza of Cuzco, showing the figure of Atahualpa, The Inca i Two oil paintings of Spanish monks _ African crocodile skin shield and helmet, and a small model skin canoe, with oars and spear ¢= IY = 4 Finely carved ivory tusk !“f lia Ce Three curiously formed Chinese figures, from the trunk and branches of trees. Soapstone figures, leather-covered bottle and cigar box, 4 Oriental earthenware heads, 4 sets of carved wooden shoes, set of Chinese bells, 2 Chinese puzzle figures, and | 2 carved tobacco gourds A large carved Chinese cabinet Very fine large Queen Anne cabinet, with glass shelves and mirrors . fines An old sextant, a set guinea scales, and 2 old Spanish bronze and copper mortars, for ore sampling Two fine pieces of tapestry (1 framed) Three old copper urns Five cases and 1 cabinet of tropical butterflies and beetles