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A Chokwe hunter's whistle

A monumental Veracruz earthenware head fragment

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An Important Eastern Woodlands Stone Wolf Effigy Pipe Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Stone: Pre AD 1000 item# 822843 (stock# W218645)
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This communal great pipe is made from a black steatite typical of the early Eastern Woodlands phase, ca. AD 1-500. The abstracted body of a wolf emerges from the large, tubular form, its head shown with alert ears and open eyes, its legs tightly folded, ready to pounce, accurately depicting the creature in a characteristic pose typical of the conformity of this time period - the Hopewell time period - of the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys. Animals were the predominant subject for most Hopewe ...click for details

A Chokwe hunter's whistle Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Artifacts: Pre 1930 item# 820915 (stock# C151)
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A wonderful example of a wooden two-note whistle used by the Chokwe of Central Africa. The bulbous form is traditional for hunter's whistles, but the cruciform shape on one end suggests the influence of European Christianity in the area. Hunting, for the Chokwe, has become increasingly rare these days, the practice being more of a ritual than a necessity to supply food. Those who do hunt regularly are held in high regard and are considered protected by the spirits of ancestors who hunted ...click for details

A Bamana figurative door lock Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1930 item# 820877 (stock# B316)
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The Bamana continue to be the largest ethnic group in Mali today. All of the related peoples have thrived in a somewhat arid landscape as agriculturalists, creating an animist-based religion and art. Anthropomorphic door locks helped keep the door shut on granaries and wealthier families homes. They represent a female figure with a movable, male bolt, alluding to the act of intercourse, and were often given as gifts to newlyweds as a symbol of their union. From Mali, early 20th century, 18" ...click for details

A Tabwa figurative wooden mortar and pestle Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Artifacts: Pre 1950 item# 819598 (stock# T358)
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The boundaries between ritual and utilitarian are blurred with this well-used mortar and pestle of Tabwa origin. Similar to Tabwa batons and staffs showing two practically similar heads, possibly a reference to 'mpundu' or 'pasa' twins, the implement is associated with the harmonious and fertile. Much Tabwa philosophy is centered around principles of duality and symmetrical balance. Twin imagery is a common metaphor for this concept. Possibly, the carver of this mortar and p ...click for details

An Igbo -Izi elephant spirit mask (Ogbodo Enyi) Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1950 item# 813684 (stock# I45a)
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A fine, old elephant spirit mask, called 'Ogbodo Enyi', a symbol of strength and clarity for the community. It has been centuries since elephants roamed Nigeria, and this type of abstracted image of that creature is the result of verbal description rather than artistic license. Bonnie Weston (1984) reports that in 1975, when an epidemic killed many Igbo-Izi children, a local oracle offered a successful course of healing. The oracle asked that women dance Ogbodo Enyi to show their gra ...click for details

A monumental Veracruz earthenware head fragment Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Sculpture: Pre AD 1000 item# 812403 (stock# V7385-22)
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This life-size head of an 'earth' deity comes from the Upper Remojadas sequence of Early Classic Veracruz (ca.AD 300-600). It is a monumental fragment with sensitively-modeled features outlined and highlighted with black 'chapapote' paint derived from asphalt tar. The blackened mouth is, in Postclassic iconography, diagnostic of the Gulf Coast deity known as "Tlazolteotl-Ixcuinan", connected with the earth and fertility. Quite a number of figures from this earlier time ...click for details

A superb Nepalese Middle Hills wooden shaman's mask Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Indian Subcontinent: Himalayas: Pre 1900 item# 812128 (stock# N69921b)
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The isolated existence of the various ethnic groups living in the Himalayas has created a diversity in beliefs. The masks themselves illustrate the beliefs of Hindu and Buddhist religions and the enigmatic, archaic traditions found in the cults of the shaman. This particular mask falls into the last category, a 'tribal' example, worn by the shaman himself, showing deformed or exaggerated features meant to surprise or convey a disturbing aspect of the ceremony. Like ritualists everywhere ...click for details

Claude Ronald Bentley oil on canvas, "Untitled" 1954 Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 1960 item# 811964 (stock# B4289mc)
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This fine and large original painting was done by New York City artist, Claude Ronald Bentley (1915-1990). His work resides in a number of important public and private collections: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC, the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Corcoran in Washington DC, and the Denver Art Museum. So as not to be too disconnected from the tribal and pre-Columbian art world, this painting was c ...click for details

A fine Lega initiation seat for Bwami Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1950 item# 810932 (stock# L814)
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Top and bottom disc-shaped elements have been combined with a convex, caryatid form of opposing faces or heads carved similarly in style to the more familiar masks used in Bwami ritual. Bwami society includes men and women participating at various grade levels, ultimately looking to attain the highest class of membership (Kindi), allowing them, in turn, to initiate and teach another round of participants. The expressive images created by the Lega are symbolic. They represent characters from thei ...click for details

A Shi wooden milk pot with handle Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Artifacts: Pre 1940 item# 810882 (stock# S455)
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An excellent old example of the hand carved containers used by the Shi of D.R.Congo. This elegant form is a uniquely Shi invention, for which they are famous, and many variations on this shape were made for use as vessels to hold and pour milk beverages. The Shi are pastoralists, raising cattle which they bring into markets centered around Bukavu. This jug shows much age and use. A metal, village repair has been made where the handle meets the vessel. 8" H x 10.50" W. Early 20th c. ...click for details

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