Head sculpture "nomoli" or "pomdo"
Sierra Leone / Guinea, Sapi / Kissi
3051094
Provenance Size Hammer price
Herta Haselberger (1927-1974), Vienna, Austria
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria		 H: 3.5 inch 600 EUR
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Helmet mask "ndoli jowei" ("sowei")
Sierra Leone, Mende
3051085
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Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria H: 14.6 inch 2400 EUR
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Anthropo-zoomorphic face mask "ntomo"
Mali, Bamana
3051091
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Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria H: 14.8 inch 1900 EUR
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Standing female figure
Mali, Dogon
3051092
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Julius Carlebach, New York, USA (~1950)
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria		 H: 15.2 inch 12000 EUR / 25000 EUR
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Staff with female figure "solima bere"
Mali, Bamana
3051105
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Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria H: 58.1 inch 2500 EUR / 5000 EUR
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Male ancestor figure "kpin sebla"
Burkina Faso, Dagaaba (Dagaare / Dagari)
3051107
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Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria H: 26 inch 1200 EUR / 2500 EUR
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Ritual staff with standing female figure
Côte d'Ivoire, Atié / Agni
3051106
Provenance Size Starting price / estimated price
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria H: 45.5 inch 600 EUR / 1200 EUR
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Heddle pulley "kono"
Côte d'Ivoire, Guro
3051113
Provenance Size Hammer price
Noble and Jean Endicott, New York, USA
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria
 H: 7.1 inch 1600 EUR
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Heddle pulley "konantre"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
3051112
Provenance Size Starting price / estimated price
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria H: 6.9 inch 900 EUR / 1800 EUR
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Heddle pulley "kono"
Côte d'Ivoire, Guro / Baule
3051114
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Gerhard Vesely, Bad Vöslau, Austria
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria		 H: 6.7 inch 1200 EUR
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Pectoral disc "akrafokonmu" ("soul washers badge")
Ghana, Akan / Ashanti
3051248
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Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria D: 4.5 inch 5500 EUR
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Fertility doll "akua 'ba"
Ghana, Akan, Ashanti
3051084
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Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria H: 11.8 inch 500 EUR
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Two recades, dedicated to the thunder god Hebiosso
Benin, Fon
3051299
Provenance Size Starting price / estimated price
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria H: 13.9 inch & 16.5 inch 800 EUR / 1200 EUR
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Set of bracelets
Benin, Fon
3051251
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Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria 2000 EUR / 4000 EUR
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Anthropo-zoomorphic face mask "azigho" (antelope)
Nigeria, Edo-Bini
3051082
Provenance Size Starting price / estimated price
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria H: 14.6 inch 600 EUR / 1200 EUR
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Anklet "ogba"
Nigeria, Igbo
3051152
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Herta Haselberger (1927-1974), Vienna, Austria
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria

Haselberger, who qualified to become a professor of Art History at the Vienna Technical University in 1950, made a significant contribution to the establishment of art anthropology through research, teaching, and publications. Her interest was in the West Africa region. She taught art anthropology in the Department of Ethnology at the University of Vienna. She collected many West African objects in the field between 1959-1960, several in the Museum für Völkerkunde in Vienna, and in the RMCA, Tervuren.		 D: 2.8 inch / 13.8 inch (inside/outside) 500 EUR
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Shrine figure "ikenga"
Nigeria, Igbo, Umumbo
3051093
Provenance Size Hammer price
Rudolf Leopold, Vienna, Austria
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria		 H: 15.6 inch 900 EUR
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"Mangam" headdress
Nigeria, Northern Benue, Kantana (Mama), Kulere
3051086
Provenance Size Starting price / estimated price
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria L: 13.8 inch 3000 EUR / 6000 EUR
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Headdress "gelede"
Nigeria, Yoruba
3051079
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Harald Leo Diamond, Vienna, Austria
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria		 H: 6.9 inch; T: 11 inch 2000 EUR / 4000 EUR
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Seated male "shango" shrine figure
Nigeria, Yoruba
3051075
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Dorotheum, Vienna, 24 March 2014, Lot 50
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria		 H: 11.8 inch 2000 EUR / 4000 EUR
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Oracle bowl "agere ifa"
Nigeria, Yoruba
3051081
Provenance Size Hammer price
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria H: 5.9 inch 500 EUR
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Dance wand "oshe shango"
Nigeria, Yoruba
3051073
Provenance Size Hammer price
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria H: 19.1 inch 2000 EUR
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Pair of "eshu" dance staffs
Nigeria, Yoruba, Ede
3051074
Provenance Size Hammer price
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria H: 11 inch (figures) / 24 inch (with cowrie strands) 1700 EUR
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Arm cuff of the "ogboni" society, 19th century
Nigeria, Yoruba, Ijebu
3051076
Provenance Size Hammer price
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria H: 4.9 inch; D: 4.1 inch 3100 EUR
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Face bell
Nigeria, Lower Niger
3051077
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Sotheby's, London, 8 July 1974, Lot 117
K. John Hewett (1919-1994), London, Great Britain
Sotheby's, London, 21 June 1979, Lot 148
Rudolf Leopold, Vienna, Austria
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria		 H: 6.7 inch 2100 EUR
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Seated female figure
Nigeria / Cameroon, Donga Valley, Mambila
3051121
Provenance Size Hammer price
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria H: 9.6 inch 1400 EUR
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Two horesmen "putchu guinadji"
Cameroon, Chad, Nigeria, Kotoko
3051427
Provenance Size Starting price / estimated price
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria 600 EUR / 1200 EUR
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Prestige drinking horn "ndu" for palm wine
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamum
3051118
Provenance Size Hammer price
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria H: 9.1 inch 450 EUR
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Scraper / knife with anthropomorphic handle
D. R. Congo, Lele
3051117
Provenance Size Starting price / estimated price
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria H: 10.4 inch 1000 EUR / 2000 EUR
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Friction oracle "katatola" ("katatora") or "kashekesheke"
D. R. Congo, Luba
3051110
Provenance Size Hammer price
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria H: 4.1 inch 1500 EUR
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Friction oracle "katatola" ("katatora") or "kashekesheke"
D. R. Congo, Luba
3051109
Provenance Size Hammer price
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria
 H: 5.1 inch 1900 EUR
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Friction oracle
Angola, Luena-Luvale, Lunda
3051111
Provenance Size Hammer price
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria H: 5.4 inch 450 EUR
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Twin figure or doll
D. R. Congo, Luba
3051115
Provenance Size Hammer price
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria H: 6.4 inch 400 EUR
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Janiform power figure "kabeja", around 1900
D. R. Congo, Luba-Hemba
3051088
Provenance Size Hammer price
Joseph Christiaens, Brussels, Belgium
Ketterer, Munich, 25. June 1987, Lot 119
Rudolf Leopold, Vienna, Austria
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria		 H: 10.6 inch 2200 EUR
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Power figure "nkisi" / "nkishi"
D. R. Congo, Songye
3051100
Provenance Size Hammer price
Rudolf Leopold, Vienna, Austria
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria		 H: 12.4 inch 12000 EUR
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Anthropomorphic half figure
D. R. Congo, Songye
3051228
Provenance Size Hammer price
Sotheby's, New York, 21 November 1996, Lot 306
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria		 H: 3.5 inch 950 EUR
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Necklace "mulua u a mpu" ("onloua")
D. R. Congo, Teke
3051153
Provenance Size Hammer price
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria D: ca. 11.8 inch / 7.7 inch (outside/inside) 800 EUR
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Standing power figure "biteki"
D. R. Congo, Yaka
3051089
Provenance Size Starting price / estimated price
Rudolf Leopold, Vienna, Austria
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria		 H: 12.2 inch 2000 EUR / 4000 EUR
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Miniature slit drum / gong
D. R. Congo, Yaka / Suku
3051116
Provenance Size Hammer price
Harald Leo Diamond, Vienna, Austria
Philipp Konzett, Graz, Austria
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria
 H: 7.7 inch 1550 EUR
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Staff crowning with four mask faces
Angola, Chokwe
3051120
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Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria H: 8.1 inch 5000 EUR / 10000 EUR
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Lamellophone "tyitanzi" or "cisanji" (thumb piano)
Angola, Chokwe / Ovimbundu
3051119
Provenance Size Hammer price
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria H: 8.3 inch 500 EUR
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Dignitary staff / sceptre "ombweti" or "umbweti"
Angola, Ovimbundu
3051090
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Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria H: 19.1 inch 600 EUR / 1200 EUR
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Prestige shield "tafa gašša"
Ethiopia, Amhara
3051146
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Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria D: 15.4 inch 1000 EUR
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Battle shield
Ethiopia, Arussi
3051142
Provenance Size Hammer price
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria D: 26.8 inch 850 EUR
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Leather shield
Ethiopia, Konso
3051143
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Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria H: 41.7 inch 450 EUR / 900 EUR
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Ancestral, commemorative or grave post "wa(a)ga"
Ethiopia, Konso-Gato
3051101
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Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria H: 46.5 inch 1500 EUR / 3000 EUR
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Lip plate
Ethiopia / South Sudan, Surma (Suri)
3051227
Provenance Size Hammer price
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria M: 7.5 inch x 5.3 inch 600 EUR
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Shield "olono"
Kenya, Masai
3051141
Provenance Size Starting price / estimated price
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria H: 37.8 inch 800 EUR / 1600 EUR
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Large trumpet
Tanzania, Zaramo
3051125
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Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria L: 17.3 inch (ivory horn) / 40.9 inch (total length) 2600 EUR
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Rare prestige dagger with scabbard "omuele guosipika"
Namibia, Ovambo, Ondonga
3051078
Provenance Size Hammer price
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria H: 7.1 inch; B: 10.4 inch 16800 EUR
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