Bonhams SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES—Bonhams will hold its December auction of Native American art on December 5 in its San Francisco saleroom. Among the more than 375 lots will be the second half of the Nancy Florsheim Collection, the fi rst part of which attracted considerable attention in June. This section is particularly The sale is also strong in material from the Northwest Coast, both antique and contemporary, but the centerpiece Eskimo masks from the Madeline Langworthy Collection. in the early 1930s and the historic and prehistoric masks in it were acquired directly from Alaskan traders and curio shops. The following day in Los Angeles, Bonhams will hold a sale of African, Oceanic, and Pre-Columbian art. Included will be property from the Margaret and Herman Colomb Collection, highlights of which include door attributed to Areogun of Osi-Ilorin. The sale is led by a Fang reliquary guardian head that has long been in private hands. A fi ne Teotihuacan mask and an especially large Yimam yipwon from the Korewari River in Papua New Guinea are among other offerings in this varied auction. 3628 ABOVE: Masks. Eskimo, Alaska. Wood. Ex Madeline Langworthy. To be offered by Bonhams, Los Angeles, on December 5, 2016. Estimates range from $7,000–10,000. BELOW: Ram’s head. Kingdom of Benin, Nigeria. 14th–16th century. Copper alloy. H: 23.5 cm. Ex Charles and Kent Davis, New Orleans; Margaret and Herman Colomb, New Orleans, Louisiana, acquired from the above in the 1980s. To be offered by Bonhams, Los Angeles, on December 5, 2016. Est. $20,000–30,000. LEFT: Grease bowl. Haida, British Columbia. 19th century. Argillite. To be offered by Skinner, Boston, on December 1, 2016. Est. $10,000–15,000. strong in historic pottery from the Southwest. of the event is a collection of twenty-eight This hitherto unknown collection was assembled a bronze Benin ram’s head and a Yoruba palace Skinner BOSTON—Skinner will hold a sale of American Indian and Ethnographic Art on December 1. Highlights among the 338 lots include a rare Woodlands cup with fi gurative bas-relief decoration, a nineteenthcentury Haida argillite grease bowl, and an important Kiowa beaded and fringed hide dress. The Oceanic section offers a fi ne collection of clubs, adzes, and other objects formerly in the Leo and Lillian Fortess Collection. Thirty-two lots of nineteenth-century photographs with Native American subjects also make this a particularly interesting sale. ABOVE: Woman’s dress. Kiowa. 1870s. Hide, beads, pigment, tin. Ex Robert Riggs (1896–1972). To be offered by Skinner, Boston, on December 1, 2016. Est. $60,000–80,000. ART IN MOTION
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