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Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Artifacts (3)

A Malinke wooden low chair Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Artifacts: Pre 1940 item# 804989 (stock# C82)
click for details		Michael Cichon Tribal Arts 941.224.0440 $995.00
A low chair, used every day, usually reserved for an adult male. This type of chair was also borrowed by young females for use during coming of age initiations and ceremonies. Its origin ultimately came from the first European colonists who arrived in the region as early as the first half of the 16th century AD, bringing with them furniture made up of various, separately carved sections, completely unlike traditional African seating made from a single piece of wood (monoxylous carving). T ...click for details

A Songye water pipe for a Kifwebe Society member Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Artifacts: Pre 1950 item# 779400 (stock# S621)
click for details		Michael Cichon Tribal Arts 941.224.0440 $2,800.00
The unique example showing a superb, miniature carved wooden male Kifwebe mask attached to the pipe stem, made of horn; with an opposing male neck/head carved of bone and functioning as the bowl. The neighboring Luba Kasai and Lubaized Songye peoples make these calabash-based water pipes for personal and sometimes communal use among the more respected members of the village. The attachment of a wooden maskette signifies the individual who owned this pipe sought protection against malevolent f ...click for details

A rare Lega hat for female Bwami with maskette Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Artifacts: Pre 1940 item# 761795 (stock# L849)
click for details		Michael Cichon Tribal Arts 941.224.0440 $2,450.00
A fiber and button-covered diadem enhanced by an ivory maskette, similar to a 'lukwakongo' type in form. This style of hat was solely worn by Lega women of the 'bunyamwa' grade in the Bwami Society, an association open to both men and women of the village. The hierarchical structure of Bwami is rooted in complimentary initiation grades for men and women, with 'bunyamwa' being the ultimate for females. A wonderful and important example with good age and use, collected i ...click for details

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