Statuette representing a female character standing.
Wood has dark patina Senufo people, Ivory Coast Beautiful use patine, slits and a lack in the right buttock (see photo)
H: 25 cm
circa 1960
Superb and rare wooden mask with thick sacrificial patina height 31cm width 15cm Authentic dance mask DAN Côte d'Ivoire thick patina or we can see chicken feathers, the beard is composed of monkey hai[...]
Female worship statuette of the Kusu people of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Very beautiful atin of use. The hole at the top of the head served to put the magic charge. Wood Slope
H.: 13.5 cm
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Statue representing a naked woman kneeling and hands joined at the navel.
The face bears the traditional scarifications of the Youruba.
Youruba people, Benin / Nigeria
Brown patina wood, blue pig[...]
Statue representing a head.
This object was used during initiatory rites.
Lega people, Democratic Republic of Congo (ex-Zaire)
Honey patina wood, traces of kaolin, crack and lack at the base
. H.:[...]
Statue of the Bembé people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (ex-Zaire).
It represents a standing man wearing certain colonial attributes. Beautiful patina honey. This kind of statues served to c[...]
. PLEASE SEND ME YOU OFFER...An oshe shango, or wand of dance, is worn by the faithful at the annual festival of Shango, the god of thunder and lightning. The double-bladed pattern on the head of the [...]
I have often bought bookends, objects which, for a bibliomaniac of my kind are totally useless, but which constitute a mini-museum of sculptures at reasonable prices!
Here, to maintain your collecti[...]
Peigne africain
Corne
XXe, première moitié
Exotique beau peigne africain en corne, en forme de taureau surmonté perpendiculairement d'une figurine de femme qui en constitue le manche. Évoquant s[...]
Very beautiful Bamoun mask carved and patinated wood cowry and human hair in good condition height 40cm width 30cm Mask crest Cameroon free and fast shipping
Betel nut cutter (tool for cutting areca nuts) in bronze or cast brass, with steel blade. Of Indian origin and dating from the late nineteenth century. Beautiful patina. Good condition. Anvil well adj[...]
Ritual chef's headdress in patinated wickerwork of conical shape, marked by three successive stages defined in rings. This prestige headdress has a hammered brass disc hollow bound on the front. Ekond[...]
High-grade headdress linked to the Bwami initiation society. This mixed institution constitutes the essential of the socio-political economic organization among the Léga but unlike many West African s[...]
Sculpture with geometric patterns. Two circular +/- perforations are on one side and a false perforation exists on the other side. The wood is light brown on one side and darker on the side where the [...]
Representing a naked man standing, the buttocks leaning on a seat. The face has a small reddish earthy beard on which the hairs were embedded. New Guinea, Papua Middle Sepik. Maybe Iatmul speaker's se[...]
Probably representing a crocodile. This divination instrument is covered on the lateral sides of the belly with oblique scarifications in the shape of lozenges of reddish-brown hue as well as on the j[...]
Decor small oblique rectangles, striated and entangled. This cephalomorphous wine cup rests on a small ring-shaped foot. The features of the face are beautiful and very finely carved. The patina is be[...]
Stylized and triangular. It has been reduced to a few essential elements: the eyes, the nose, the mouth. The surface is smooth and accentuates the majesty of the work. Three holes are due to wear and [...]
Representing a stylized character, only the head with a broad bilobed hairstyle and torso, customize the whistle. There are no legs or arms. Wood, beautiful patina slightly lustrous. Small crusts in d[...]
Amulet with human head. Body conical, a hole is made in the neck to pass a cord. The shape is slightly curved. Ivory (warthog or hippopotamus). Good state of conservation. No restoration. South-East o[...]
Mushroom type wooden body decorated with small carvings below the collar, vaguettes. Handle surrounded by braided vegetable fibers and fabric with gaps, visible in the photos. Kanak New Caledonia, XIX[...]
Colombian terracotta
statue probably a Venus or divinity of the so-called Valdivia culture,
pre-Columbian culture of the present Ecuador
that can be traced back to the 4th millennium BC.
Statu[...]
This Ibeji statue is part of the cult of twins among the Yoruba people of Nigeria.
The Yoruba regard the twins as gifts from heaven; they are the children of the god of thunder, as so o[...]
Central America, set of 7 ethnic objects relating to weaving: A comb, two cattails, three needles, a shuttle. All presented in a plexiglass frame with compartments. Around 1970, from a Belgian collect[...]
Pairs of statues in the country Asmat Outstanding pieces, museum quality. these statues were guarding the house of a leader. The woman is an object to pound sago (palm), man or a hunting weapon of war[...]
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