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A Dan wooden feasting spoon with head
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Pre 1950 item# 1123446 (stock# D497716)
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michael cichon tribal arts
941.224.0440
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The large, ritual utensil showing a female portrait effigy head with a tri-partite coiffure at the top of the handle. Such spoons were prized gifts received by a woman after being recognized as the most generous, giving, hospitable host in the village. A thick, slightly encrusted, black patina covers the spoon and is appropriately worn away at the tip and backside of the scoop area, indicating repetitive use. The face has received organic white paint across the eyes and aluminum teeth have been ...click for details
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Two terracotta Anyi 'Mma' effigies
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Pre 1900 item# 1123154 (stock# A9534 A9535)
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michael cichon tribal arts
941.224.0440
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Heavily-potted, solid, fired clay figures, such as these two examples, were made as portraits of deceased royal family members - kings and queen-mothers (seated figure, here) as well as members of their courts (standing figure, here). This type of figure ranges in age from the early 18th C. through the early 20th C. CE, when increasing pressure from colonial missionaries and officers ceased production. Many western Akan (Anyi) region terracottas are thought to be physical likenesses of those who ...click for details
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An unusual Punu maiden mask (mukudj)
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Pre 1940 item# 1122984 (stock# P12972)
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michael cichon tribal arts
941.224.0440
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Although exhibiting many classic maiden mask features, this old example has an equal amount of aberrant characteristics for such masks: its form is narrow and deep compared to most examples, the wood is of medium-heavy density with a pithy core which has been left in-place at the top, but removed at the bottom where the hole was intentionally bored-out, indicating the mask was displayed and probably stored on a pole rather than worn (since there are no holes for strapping). A whitened surface ex ...click for details
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Asante Aku'aba figure
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Pre 1940 item# 1122962 (stock# A99621)
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michael cichon tribal arts
941.224.0440
$950.00
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One of the most ubiquitous of African forms, these fertility dolls were given to barren Asante women and carried tucked into their waist belts for a prescribed period of time. After that time period, the figures were kept on shrines within the houses of the patients. This old example has much personality and apparent signs of use. A combination of glass trade beads and tiny seed-like beads strung around the neck. Early 20th C, Ghana, West Africa. The figure measures 11 7/8"H x 4"W and ...click for details
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A Mt. Hagen presentation axe (di kurugu)
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Pre 1960 item# 1117580 (stock# N245221)
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michael cichon tribal arts
941.224.0440
$1,000.00....further provenance available
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Of the type used for trade, bride price, and public ceremony, with plaited rattan and yellow orchid binding, and removable greenstone blade. Though found in the Mt.Hagen area, such axes are typically made by the people of the Jimi Valley, Papua New Guinea. This example measures 24"H x 21.50"W, is in very fine condition aside from minor nicks and stains to the original stone blade, and comes from a European private collection, circa 1960's. Custom steel mount.
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A Dayak female 'Hampatong' figure
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Pre 1920 item# 1114266 (stock# D54992)
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michael cichon tribal arts
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The slender female image carved in a simple and pure manner, somewhat crude, but very expressive. She stands wide-eyed and naked with right hand by the awkwardly placed breasts, and left hand near her exaggerated genitalia. The wood is heavy and dense (ironwood), very old and weathered with a fine, grayed patina showing patches of lichen moss across the deep crevices caused from decades of rain erosion. Hampatong figures were placed near communal entrances in hopes of driving away malevolent for ...click for details
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A superb Nuna or Bwa plank mask
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Pre 1900 item# 1113774 (stock# B2600179)
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This type of 'Do' mask embodies concepts of supernatural forces which are not visible in this world. The Bwa name for such a vertical mask is "bayiri", and a female gender is assigned to the mask type. These abstracted forms are not intended to look like anything in particular, with surface decoration, as described by Coquet and Regis in Emily Hanna-Vergara's 1996 dissertation, "deliberately conceived as an esoteric text whose vivid graphic language is derived from de ...click for details
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