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A fine Ivory Coast region initiation chair

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1930   item# 1197431 (stock# W77321)

A fine Ivory Coast region initiation chair
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michael cichon tribal arts
941.224.0440


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These miniature chairs represent the role of women as mothers and providers of the family, and figure prominently into the initiation rites of young girls with several peoples of Ivory Coast. They typically belonged to the grandfathers or uncles (members of the Poro Society) of the initiation participants. This example is exceptional with phallic form back rail ends. It is finely incised on the legs, side rails and seat, and back rail. Measuring 17" H x approx. the same width. Showing a fin ...click for details


A fine Zulu wooden meat tray

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1940   item# 1196076 (stock# Z551972)

A fine Zulu wooden meat tray
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michael cichon tribal arts
941.224.0440


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Showing much use on the natural, undecorated interior of the bowl, this four-footed prestige tray shows a blackened underside with ridges and bumps in typical fashion. This was actually the more visible side seen while the bowl hung awaiting its use during rituals and important feasts. The thin-walled vessel measures 12.75" in length (handle to handle) and is 8.50" wide. Height is 2". The condition is fine but with an old split in one handle (stable), and a small loss to rim from ...click for details


An Iatmul over-modeled ritual 'payback' dagger

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Oceanic: Sculpture: Pre 1950   item# 1195605 (stock# P33871)

An Iatmul over-modeled ritual 'payback' dagger
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michael cichon tribal arts
941.224.0440


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The finely rendered, naturalistic human face made of gray clay and embedded with cowrie and Nassa shells. Cream pigment, fiber tassels, and feathers further decorate the image. The dagger itself is made of wood, not the usual Cassowary bird leg bone, although it is carved on the backside of the blade to mimic the hollow seen on a bone. Such daggers were pushed into the earth in front of a man wishing to speak in a debate, and his credence was bolstered by the presence of the dagger before him. T ...click for details


A fine Zigua or Pare medicinal horn

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1960   item# 1193971 (stock# T33071)

A fine Zigua or Pare medicinal horn
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michael cichon tribal arts
941.224.0440


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Some scholars of African art have suggested the use of such animal horns to hold magical, medicinal substances shows East African contact with Indonesia, possibly as early as the first millennium CE. This prime example shows an anthropomorphic wooden stopper with beaded eyes. The wood used to make these stoppers comes from the medicinal tree whose leaves, bark or roots are typically part of the contents of the horn. From northeastern Tanzania, Zigua or Pare peoples, mid 20th century. 21" in ...click for details


A Manus Island wooden handled Kundu drum

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Oceanic: Artifacts: Pre 1950   item# 1193962 (stock# P92316)

A Manus Island wooden handled Kundu drum
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michael cichon tribal arts
941.224.0440


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This finely carved dance drum comes from Manus Island, the largest island of the Admiralty Islands chain off the northern coast of Papua New Guinea. Most adult participants in ceremonies throughout Melanesia play such hand drums, but the smaller scale of this example might indicate it belonged to an adolescent or child. Rich, textured, surface patina achieved with a thick, white pigment, then painted in black; carved areas painted in red ocher. Unusual use of lizard skin head shows legs of repti ...click for details


A fine Bernard Matemera stone sculpture

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1980   item# 1193917 (stock# S77423)

A fine Bernard Matemera stone sculpture
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michael cichon tribal arts
941.224.0440


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Considered one of the greatest Shona sculptors of contemporary Zimbabwe, Bernard Matemera (1946-2002) created images of animals, spirits, people and the creatures which inhabited his dreams. These beings faithfully provided him with subject matter throughout his career. As can be seen in this classic example, and as described by the respected critic of Zimbabwean stone sculpture, Celia Winter- Irving, “There is in these sculptures an unspent power and reserve of energy. They speak both of the fo ...click for details


A fine Ibibio wooden face mask with articulated jaw

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1950   item# 1193879 (stock# I29589)

A fine Ibibio wooden face mask with articulated jaw
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michael cichon tribal arts
941.224.0440


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Powerful, aggressive and fierce describe such blackened face masks representing evil and immoral people who were turned into apparitions at their death. The open mouth is threatening, and made all the more so by its articulated lower jaw. Part of the men's Ekpo Society centered on ghostly beings. From southeastern Nigeria, the mask dates to the early-mid 20th century. Dimensions are 10.5"H x 7.25"W, and its condition is excellent with some old loss and decay mainly to the underside ...click for details


A Turkana or Karamajong wooden headrest

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1960   item# 1193842 (stock# K56211)

A Turkana or Karamajong wooden headrest
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michael cichon tribal arts
941.224.0440


$500.00 

This type of East African headrest is one of the most common, but in the example here, the larger proportions and horizontal orientation distinguish it from others. A warm, honey-brown tone patina is complimented by a string of various glass and natural beads attached to the braided, leather cord, no doubt linked to its owner's status. From the Kenya/Uganda border region, early-mid 20th century. Very fine condition. Provenance: Fedel collection, 1970's.


A superb Lagunillas type earthenware head fragment

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Pottery: Pre AD 1000   item# 1193825 (stock# N013867)

A superb Lagunillas type earthenware head fragment
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michael cichon tribal arts
941.224.0440


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This exceptional, life-size head fragment is executed in the Lagunillas, or Chinesco, type D tradition as cataloged by Hasso Von Winning. The delicate and subtle contours have been enhanced with a cream and red paint. Thin, painted lines in a slightly darker cream tone accent the face and recall a wood grain effect. From a monumental figure, the head alone measures 8"H x 6.50"W, and it has been custom mounted. From the Shaft-Tomb region of Nayarit State, Mexico. 200 BCE- CE 300. It is ...click for details


An early painted bark carrier (angum) by Lily Karadada

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Oceanic: Sculpture: Pre 1970   item# 1193758 (stock# A47610)

An early painted bark carrier (angum) by Lily Karadada
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michael cichon tribal arts
941.224.0440


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The 'coolamon' form by Mindindil(Bubbles), aka Lily Karadada (born circa 1937), in thick eucalyptus bark material showing four(4)images of the creator god 'Wandjina', with radiating halo-like head surround and similar eyes, schematic nose, and hunched shoulders. Smaller, masked dancer figures, serpents and sprouting flowers separate the deity busts. Painted in organic white, red, and black pigments. 26"L x 12.5"W x 8"H. In very fine condition overall, with some fla ...click for details

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