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Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Sculpture (20)

A superb Akan terra-cotta ancestral shrine figure Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1940 item# 805148 (stock# A53)
click for details		Michael Cichon Tribal Arts 941.224.0440 $3,800.00
Traditional African society depicted ancestors as having the power to intervene in the lives of the living, especially their descendants. The ancestors are concerned with the well being of the living, but their interventions can also be detrimental. They protect and bless the living and are their descendants’ advocates in the spiritual world. But, if the living fail to show the deceased the honor they deserve, the ancestor’s spirit can disrupt their lives and bring misfortune. This young, ...click for details

A fine Lobi male wooden 'bateba' figure Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1950 item# 805137 (stock# L33)
click for details		Michael Cichon Tribal Arts 941.224.0440 $2,250.00
Since these beautiful figures were first published in the 1979 catalog of the Stanley Collection, important research has been carried out among the Lobi by Piet Meyer, representing the Museum Rietberg in Zurich, and published in 1981 in an exhibition catalog of Lobi art. Such figures are called bateba and serve as intermediaries between protective spirits (thila) and men. The bateba belong to thila and can carry out their orders, holding out an arm to prevent the entrance of evil into the ...click for details

A rare 'Mami Wata' shrine assemblage Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1950 item# 804980 (stock# Y5)
click for details		Michael Cichon Tribal Arts 941.224.0440 $8,400.00
This whimsical example was once a figurative centerpiece on an altar, probably a village altar, devoted to the water spirit named 'Mami Wata'. Her cult is found throughout much of West Africa, especially in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, as well as the Caribbean, and even the Continental United States. The diaspora community brought this deity and many others with them to the Americas and West Indies. She is mostly benevolent, but requires great attention, thus, she is shown surr ...click for details

A rare Nande wooden face mask Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1940 item# 802540 (stock# K365)
click for details		Michael Cichon Tribal Arts 941.224.0440 $4500.00
The cubistic form of this hardwood mask leads me to believe its origin is from the eastern edge of Maniema, along Lake Idi Amin, where the Nande people live. Stylistically, this mask resembles those made by the Kumu, those made by the Pere, and some known to have been made by Twa Pygmy groups. Not coincidentally, all of these peoples are neighbors with the Nande. Most likely, this mask was used by a village diviner, aiding him while performing various, enigmatic rituals. Indeed, its archetypal, ...click for details

A fine Ekpeya Igbo Owu Cult Figurative headdress Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1930 item# 802509 (stock# I7a)
click for details		Michael Cichon Tribal Arts 941.224.0440 $3200.00
The Ekpeya Igbo are river delta people and their masquerades (and carvings associated with the dances) are related to the Kalabari Ijaw peoples further to the south. However, this rare type of full-figure headdress, showing a seated or half-standing male holding ritual staffs and similar high-status implements, also bears resemblance to neighboring Ibibio and Ogoni peoples, especially in the stylization of the facial features and body forms. It is a somewhat unusual form, but is, nonetheless fir ...click for details

A rare Nyanga helmet form mask Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1950 item# 787719 (stock# N320)
click for details		Michael Cichon Tribal Arts 941.224.0440 $3400.00
Related to the Lega , Kumu, Pere, and Nande peoples, the Nyanga group is part of the northeastern tradition of D.R.Congo. Friendly relations exist between all of these peoples and they share many cultural beliefs. They have no supreme being but rather numerous cults including ancestral, twin, fire, river spirit etc. The concave, whitened face plane of this rare object has been liberally powdered with a micaceous kaolin pigment while the rest of the sculptures patina is a gray-brown. This mos ...click for details

A Ogoni articulated wood face mask Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1950 item# 782897 (stock# 050)
click for details		Michael Cichon Tribal Arts 941.224.0440 $1,450.00
The Ogoni people live in the Niger river Delta area of Nigeria. They are primarily farmers and carvers of puppet-like figures and small masks. Originally, it was a face mask that depicted a fierce and ugly character from the "ekpo", or dead ancestor society. This type of mask or puppet head, with its moveable lower jaw, seems to have developed around the turn of the century. Gradually, it has lost some of its sinister appearance and association with the dead, but when the grotesque ...click for details

A superb Senufo diviner's wooden seated female figure Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1940 item# 779371 (stock# S14)
click for details		Michael Cichon Tribal Arts 941.224.0440 P.O.R.
This elegant divination figure was probably once accompanied by a male partner. The couple both represents and houses named spirits believed to maintain special communication with a diviner/soothsayer as a result of his or her continual sacrifices, abstinences, and other ritual observances. The pair of sculptures is carefully arranged with other divination objects each time he or she receives a client. The style is classical, specifically an ancient style that sculptors tend to associate with ...click for details

An Idoma wood face mask Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1950 item# 769282 (stock# I47)
click for details		Michael Cichon Tribal Arts 941.224.0440 $2,250.00 (BUYER ALERT, COMPARE to Bonham's Auction, Lot No: 679, estimate: $3,000 - 4,000*)
Idoma people are renowned for their sensitively and delicately detailed art style. This small, light weight, wood mask is part of a play known as 'lughulu,' opposing pretty ladies against ugly males. The scoop-like muzzle and wide-open eyes dramatize the unattractive male dancer who does all he can to be attractive to the group of female beauties. Well patinated and showing evidence of good age and handling. Measuring 8" H x 6.50" W. From the Benue River region of Nigeria ...click for details

A Yoruba "Esu" figure with cowrie shells Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1950 item# 769269 (stock# Y126)
click for details		Michael Cichon Tribal Arts 941.224.0440 $3,900.00 (BUYER ALERT! COMPARE to Bonham's Auction, Lot No: 660, estimate: $6,000 - 9,000*)
Of distinctive type, the image of the 'guardian of the ritual way' covered with strands of cowrie shells indicating wealth and power. Eyes are inset with small pieces of metal. This deity is believed to grant riches to those who follow the sacrificial way of life and to steal from those who do not acknowledge his authority. If properly treated, Esu will intercede on behalf of humans in their appeals to the spirits, but, if he is dishonored and angered, he will garble messages and wre ...click for details

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