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ABOVE: Barkcloth, masi
bolabola.
Fiji. Early 19th century.
Collected by Rev. Joseph Waterhouse
while stationed in Fiji, 1850s.
Ex Lord Alistair McAlpine, West Green,
London; Robert Hales, London.
Vegetal fi ber, pigment. 333 x 56 cm.
Collection of Mark and Carolyn
Blackburn.
LEFT: Yoruba bowl fi gure
in the display of James
Stephenson African Art, San
Francisco, 2017.
Image courtesy of the San Francisco
Tribal & Textile Art Show.
ABOVE: Breastplate,
civavonovono.
Fiji. Early 19th century.
Ex Adi Takopau, Tonga; J. W. Ellis,
Auckland; H. C. Carter, New York.
Black pearl shell, sperm whale tooth.
D: 23.6 cm.
Collection of Mark and Carolyn
Blackburn.
ABOVE: Mask.
Tabwa, DR Congo.
Ex Mauricio and Emilia Lasansky Collection,
Iowa City, Iowa; by descent to the present
owners.
Wood. H: 31.1 cm.
To be offered by Skinner, Boston, on
December 1, 2018, est. $15,000–20,000.
ty Historical & Genealogical Society in Easton,
Pennsylvania, including an unusually large and
early Apache basketry olla. A group of Northwest
Coast artworks, including two Tlingit masks, were
acquired in the mid 1870s by the well-known collector
James G. Swan and donated by him to a
Massachusetts library in 1880. Also featured is a
collection of Haida argillite carvings, including a
small totem pole by Charles Edenshaw. A strong
section of Eskimo artifacts from a Florida collection,
an extensive collection of photography from
the Indian territories, and Southwest pottery, both
historic and contemporary, is also featured.
SAN FRANCISCO
IN FEBRUARY
San Francisco Bay Area—Now in its thirty-third
year, the San Francisco Tribal & Textile Art Show will
return to the Fort Mason Center Pavilion February 7–10,
2019. Known for showcasing exceptional tribal artwork
and textiles, including many rare and unique pieces from
Africa, Asia, Australia, Oceania, and the Americas, the fair
will feature seventy galleries and dealers from the United
States and around the globe. Two special exhibitions
will also be featured. One will highlight breathtaking
artworks from Fiji from the collection of Mark and Carolyn
Blackburn as a preview for the exhibition The Art
of Fiji: The Age of Enlightenment in the
Pacifi c, coming to the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art in autumn of 2019. The
other celebrates Africa’s vanishing rituals
through the photography of Carol Beckwith
and Angela Fisher. The show opens
Thursday, February 7, with an early evening
cocktail reception and will be open to
the public Friday through Sunday. Serious
collectors and fi rst-time attendees alike
will be inspired by the craftsmanship, techniques,
and variety of human expression
offered at this event.
Tribal Art Week in the Bay Area continues
the following weekend with the thirty-fi fth annual
American Indian Art Show held at the Frank Lloyd
Wright–designed Marin Civic Center on the following
weekend, February 16–17, 2019. Nearly 100 dealers will
exhibit a wide variety of jewelry, textiles, baskets, pottery,
beadwork, and sculpture from the Native cultures of the
Americas. Also featured with be relevant photography,
paintings, books, and more. This is always a fascinating
event and one fi lled with unexpected discoveries.
ABOVE: Tampan darat.
Lampung, Sumatra,
Indonesian. Late 19th
century.
Ex private collection, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; Michael Frances, The
Textile Gallery, London.
Cotton. 97.8 x 90.2 cm.
To be offered by Skinner, Boston, on
December 1, 2018, est. $10,000–
15,000.