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A Senufo Janus ' Kponungo' helmet mask

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A rare earthenware Nok pendant figure Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre AD 1000 item# 953750 (stock# N319673b)
click for details		michael cichon tribal arts 941.224.0440 $2,950.00
An exquisitely modeled male figure in a kneeling position wearing a large collar, belt, and cuffs. A close-fitting cap or coiffure shrouds his head. The figure appears to wear a thick and striated, possibly padded, outfit which seems to bundle the diminutive body. His face is finely rendered in a classic manner, as seen on much larger Nok terracottas. This amulet has been pierced for stringing under one armpit. The figure's right arm and hand are missing, most likely for quite sometime, as ...click for details

A collection of Akan figurative brass goldweights Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1900 item# 939162 (stock# A6533 abc)
click for details		michael cichon tribal arts 941.224.0440 $900.00 for the set
The Sub-Saharan African weighing system for gold was of Islamic origin, ca. 15th century AD, and it spread south along ancient trade routes from the most commercial centers in Mali and the Niger River region. Simple, geometric forms in cast brass were the first to be used. Figurative goldweights began to be made by Akan smiths by the 16th or 17th century. The earliest types were simple effigies of birds, humans, and fish. By the 18th century, quite realistic weight motifs were numbering in the t ...click for details

A fine Nok earthenware 'thinker' figure Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre AD 1000 item# 937429 (stock# N490-00c)
click for details		michael cichon tribal arts 941.224.0440 $6,500.00
Of the 'elongated type,' the bearded male sitting with his chin comfortably resting on his raised, right knee in a classic 'thinker' pose. Wearing a broad collar, multiple arm and leg bands, and neatly-formed coiffure ringed in a cap-like manner on the crown of his head. The figure casually holds the end of a serpentine waist sash in his left hand. Classical Nok terracotta dates between 500 BC and AD 200. It was first found in 1943 deep within a tin mine, near the present-day ...click for details

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