![Tribal Dogon Wooden Medicine / Tobacco Box Mali 15" H: Unique hand carved wooden box with double doors medicine or tobacco leaves standing cabinet originates from the Dogon tribe. Vintage piece around 40 to 60 years old. It stands on three legs with a lat](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/9207/327302/176404727_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715814009)
African Tribal & Native American Artifacts
![Tribal Dogon Wooden Medicine / Tobacco Box Mali 15" H: Unique hand carved wooden box with double doors medicine or tobacco leaves standing cabinet originates from the Dogon tribe. Vintage piece around 40 to 60 years old. It stands on three legs with a lat](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/9207/327302/176404727_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715814009)
![ZULU BETROTHAL AMULET: Zulu Wars period C.1870s. Known as a Zulu love letter. 3 1/8" x 2 1/8" made of trade beads (the Zulu had strong trade ties with the British from the 1820s) loomed in black, blue, red and white pattern](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1478/330118/177982397_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715892198)
![SENUFO (IVORY COAST) SPIRITUAL FIGURE: 10 ¼” height plus Plexiglas mount. Characteristic form with foreshortened legs, arms away from the sides and protruding abdomen. The head with crested coiffeur flanked by scarification wh](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1478/330118/177982503_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715892198)
![HEAVY FORGED IRON SLAVE LEG SHACKLE: First half of the 19th century. Purchased in Abbeville South Carolina about 1955. 11" total length extended. Seven pieces comprising the broad rolled shackle constructed to minimize injury to the capt](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1478/330118/177982182_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715892198)
![IFUGAO HEADHUNTER’S FETISH CONTAINER: Ifugao fetishes were consecrated and placed in the beams of the lodge houses along with the skulls of victims. They were captured during the Philippine Insurrection of 1899. Fine basket weave in the f](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1478/330118/177982363_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715892198)
![African Bulu Cameroon Monkey Power Figure.: African Bulu Cameroon Monkey Power Figure. Carved wood, encrusted material, rests of pigment, feathers. It measures 19 1/4 inches tall and 8 inches wide. This is a NO RESERVE AUCTION: there are no hid](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/8700/329836/178631463_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1716377212)
![Rare African Songye DRC Nkisi Ceremonial Horn.: Rare African Songye DRC Nkisi Ceremonial Horn. Carved wood, horn, leather, fur, fibers. For measures please refer to the pictures taken with a measuring tape. This is a NO RESERVE AUCTION: there are n](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/8700/329836/178140890_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1716377212)
![RARE ASHANTI SLAVER’S ARM TORQUE: Late 19th century, ex: Sir Cecil Armitage Collection. Brass, 1 ¼” width swelling to 1 ½” at the middle. Hand chiseled overall in bands and panels of stipple, line work and ba](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1478/330118/177982510_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715892198)
![CONGOLESE FETISH FIGURE: Second half of the 19th century, the period of intense slaving in the area. Kuba, central Congo. Carved wood, 9" length. Elongated body and short legs. Pointed head of typical Kuba interpretation, the](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1478/330118/177982186_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715892198)
![PAIR OF YORUBA TWIN FIGURES, IBEJI: Male and female. 9" height, carved with the arms away from the body and the feet as a disk with the toes delineated. The heads of distinctive triangular form from which their village of origin should](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1478/330118/177982190_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715892198)
![IBIBIO MALE FIGURE: Ex: Christie's, London, July 5, 1989 sale of Tribal Art. 5" height, carved wood of characteristic form with short limbs and a disproportionately large head on the thick neck. Pigmented details. Worn w](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1478/330118/177982413_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715892198)
![RARE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE IRON "HOE MONEY": Used in East Africa as a means of exchange as well as the raw material from which weapons were forged. See Odd and Curious Money, p.52-3 where it is identified as "hoe money" and stated in 1986 to be](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1478/330118/177982187_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715892198)
![FINE ZULU BEADED SNUFF CONTAINER: Zulu Wars period C.1875. 5" height. The body made from a gourd encased in a matrix of blue, white and red trade beads. The spout with a string and internal stopper. Bead work entirely intact as it alm](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1478/330118/177982398_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715892198)
![West African Carved Wood Object Assortment: West African Carved Wood Object Assortment (9) items including a Dogon female figure, a Senufo female figure having black and red paint, a Senufo palm wine cup having fire spitter cover, a Luba female](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/941/332473/179332223_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1717622230)
![African Carved Wood Masks: African Carved Wood Masks (3) total items including a Salampasu mask having a headdress of woven rattan balls attached to netting with a horn pendant on cord from the Democratic Republic of Congo and](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/941/332473/179332225_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1717622230)
![20th C. African Chokwe Wood Mask - Mwana Pwo: Central Africa, Angola, Zambia, and Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chokwe peoples, ca. mid to late 20th century CE. An evocative wood mask known of a Mwana Pwo or young woman displaying idealized f](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1103/331947/179080732_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1717191351)
News about African Tribal & Native American Artifacts
![Hughie Lee-Smith and Jacob Lawrence star at Swann’s African American Art sale April 4](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/174398390_1_x.jpeg)
Hughie Lee-Smith and Jacob Lawrence star at Swann’s African American Art sale April 4
NEW YORK — Swann Galleries‘ African American Art sale scheduled for Thursday, April 4 includes a standout selection of house favorites, including Hughie Lee-Smith and Jacob Lawrence, and features a special evening session to benefit the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation. The catalog is now available for review and bidding at LiveAuctioneers. The sale is led […]
![Jasper52 brings From Sahara to Serengeti: African Maps Sale April 2](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/174232641_1_x.jpeg)
Jasper52 brings From Sahara to Serengeti: African Maps Sale April 2
NEW YORK — Every collection benefits from the ownership and display of antique maps, whether in the home or an office environment. Jasper52 will present From Sahara to Serengeti: African Maps Sale on Tuesday, April 2 at 8 pm Eastern time exclusively at LiveAuctioneers. Samuel Augustus Mitchell (1792-1868) was an American publisher specializing in maps. […]
![African American historical ephemera was the focus at Freeman’s Hindman](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/171467891_1_x.jpeg)
African American historical ephemera was the focus at Freeman’s Hindman
CINCINNATI — Nearly 330 lots of historical ephemera crossed the block at Freeman’s Hindman February 27, with the focus on African American items. Complete results are available at LiveAuctioneers. The sale’s top lot was a first edition of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), the prominent black author and civil rights […]
![Stoneware jug attributed to African American potter David Jarbour is a top pick at Jeffrey S. Evans Feb. 9](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/169990118_1_x.webp)
Stoneware jug attributed to African American potter David Jarbour is a top pick at Jeffrey S. Evans Feb. 9
MT. CRAWFORD, Va. — A stoneware 10-gallon jug attributed to David Jarbour (circa 1780s-1841) comes to market at Jeffrey S. Evans Friday, February 9 as part of the Al and Billy Steidel collection. Estimated at $80,000-$120,000, the jug and the complete catalogs for both Friday, February 9 and Saturday, February 10 are available for bidding […]