All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : African : Sculpture : Pre 1900 item #1420999 (stock #39B47-1522)
African Makonde tribe ceremonial carved wood mask of a human head with real human hair. 19th century. An early and rare ceremonial mask that was actually for tribal use, utilizing genuine human hair.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : African : Sculpture : Pre 1910 item #1315593 (stock #0268)

We like to offer you a very unique and rare Bakongo statue with 4 faces built as a jar.

It is made of high quality wood around 1900. It is part of the van Norten Tribal Art Collection and has been collected by the founder of the Momoyama Gallery in the 1950ies.

The protrusion in the belly is said to contain magical elements, giving the sculpture its power...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : African : Pre 1900 item #1317170
what pdx
$395.00
Large and early terracotta pipe bowl, BAMILEKE or TIKAR, Cameroon Africa. Gritty terracotta clay with losses as seen. Size 7.75" by 4"
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : African : Artifacts : Pre 1920 item #1191962
DAY FINE ARTS
$300.00
Old Ethiopian scroll painted and written on animal skin. Approx 200 x 9.5cm, in 2 part leather container. Evidence of damage on right side throughout. Undeciphered. Date estimated to be early 20th century or earlier.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : African : Sculpture : Pre 1910 item #1490228
An exceptional wooden mask of the WE or WEE people, Côte d’Ivoire or Liberia, c. late 19th. century - early 20th. century.

Very large and expressive hardwood mask with many early bells, cowrie shells, textile etc. 'Ble gla' singing mask with a human face and a beard made of bells intended to call the protective genies, with slit eyes and a forehead with a median vein.

Note that the skilled maskmaker, used different old bells, incl...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : African : Weapons : Pre 1900 item #1470986 (stock #ES942)
A very unusual antique 19th-20th century African ceremonial dagger with a carved and dyed bone grip in the form of a human figure, has a hand forged flat, double-edged shaped rusted iron blade with a elaborate leaf shape scabbard made of two pieces of stiffened hide sown together with twisted twine and adorned on the center with carved and dyed bone tribal ancestor mask within an intricate pattern made of dyed Cowrie Shells stitched to the rawhide...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : African : Sculpture : Pre 1920 item #1490578
Superb pair of elaborate wooden twins, both females, Yoruba People, Eruwa city, Nigeria, 19th./ early 20th. century.

Provenanced to an important collection, we offer a large selection of high-end wooden african figures, all with the original surfaces and elaborate carvings, dating back to the 19th.-early 20th. century.

The lovely set with fantastic openwork headdresses, with blue pigments and exceptional facial features and both richly adorned with jewelry...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : African : Pre 1900 item #1455761
Senatus Consulto
$395.00
Reduced, was 495.00
A fine and very varied selection of 11 currency cobber, bronze and brass currency (money) bracelets of larger sizes, West to North Africa, ca. 17th-19th. century.

The collection consists of a huge Nigerian or Niger brownish patinated bronze or cobber bracelet, weighing ca. 840 grams! More West African pieces and some Northern African bracelets among which a particular nice brass armring with the decorated large finials of the Tuaregs, weighing ca. 475 grams...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : African : Pre 1920 item #1113152
Excellent wear and patina. Congo, first quarter 20th century. H. 21 cm (mask) or 28 cm including stand.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : African : Weapons : Pre 1920 item #1373118 (stock #AF131)
This antique traditional tribal dagger was made and used by the Manding people who are indigenous to the Western Sudan region of Africa. The dagger is 10 inches long and has a leather covered pommel. The blade is dulled and rusted with a small bend at the tip. The original matching scabbard has traditionally woven worked leather decoration with belt loop and tassel.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : African : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000 item #1490566
Senatus Consulto
$795.00
Reserved
Fine large and early pair of wooden twins, both females, Yoruba People, Oyo Region, Nigeria, 19th./20th. century.

Provenanced to an important collection, we offer a large selection of high-end wooden african figures, all with the original surfaces and elaborate carvings, dating back to the 19th.-early 20th. century.

The lovely set with large headdresses, blue pigment, and exceptional facial features and both richly adorned with jewelry...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : African : Artifacts : Pre AD 1000 item #1486350
A very unusual large and very early version of the currency bracelet, used also by slave traders in the in West Africa - these served as exchange currency.

A very ornate bracelet with miniature decoration around the three hemispheric profiles.

Size: 109 mm. wide and 59 mm. high. Weigh: 367 grams.

Condition: Good Very fine, small bumps, but intact with a lovely warm green, brownish red patina.

Ex. Old Danish Private Colection
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : African : Pre 1900 item #1233363 (stock #SK663)
Galerie Hafner
$320.00
shipping included
Nine small brass weights originating from the African Gold Coast. The top decorated with different geometric ornaments as spirals, waves, swastika - one in the shape of a pyramid. Used for weighing gold dust which for centuries was the currency of the region. Condition: fine. Dimension: pyramid: 2.7 cm x 2.8 cm x 2 cm.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : African : Pre 1900 item #1470858 (stock #IS402)
Antique, 19th century North African, Morocco-Algeria, Islamic Maghrib, Kabyle, Kabylie, enamel silver, jeweled turban pin brooch, Sarpech -Aigrette (feather support for turban).

Details: This impressive Sarpech is of classical form, composed of several well-made separate elements of solid silver, soldered together, including a long stem with a flower head end...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : African : Artifacts : Pre 1930 item #1490781
Ogboni, Brass, Yoruba, Nigeria. H. 18 cm. 19th/early 20th century. The iron pins are missing. Ex coll. Ursula Voorhuis (1932 - 2021).
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : African : Sculpture : Pre 1900 item #1079359
Pair of African carved figures depicting a family with the woman carrying a jar on her head and holding it with the left hand and with the right hand carrying another vessel. The man holding a cane by left hand and his child by his right side. The man figure has a height if 11 inches and woman is 10.25 inches tall standing on a .75 inch wooden base. Both item bear very nice dark patina, in good condition with losses to woman's necklace and left earring.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : African : Artifacts : Pre 1920 item #1287689 (stock #T62)

Original 19th–20th century African Kurumba headdress adoné design in the graceful form of an antelope head with long neck and slender horns, decorated with horizontal stripes, rising from the top of the head, and echoed by the long forward-curved ears...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : African : Sculpture : Pre 1930 item #1490020
A very important large female figure, probably Baulé, Ivory Coast /Liberia, early 20th. century.

We offer a large selection of high-end wooden african figures from a very old collection, all with the original surfaces and elaborate carvings, dating back to the 19th.-early 20th. century.

An artistic master piece by a maker that would have inspired great artists like Picasso in his time...