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West African Tribal & Native American Artifacts
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![West African Painted Mask Assortment: West African Painted Mask Assortment (8) items including a Fang Ngil mask from Gabon, a Mossi bird helmet mask from Burkina Faso, a Tetela mask having feather attachments from the Democratic Republic](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/941/332473/179332220_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1717622230)
![West African Metal Reliquary Handle: West African Metal Reliquary Handle (5) total items including a handle having a garish face and a bronze alloy construction; together with a Tiwi Islands Aboriginal spear, a tribal snake motif cane, a](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/941/332473/179332207_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1717622230)
![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)
![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)
![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)
![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)
News about West African Tribal & Native American Artifacts
![Artifacts looted during colonial period returned to Sri Lanka and Indonesia](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-06-at-12.17.21-PM-1.png)
Artifacts looted during colonial period returned to Sri Lanka and Indonesia
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Two Dutch museums have handed over hundreds of cultural artifacts back to Indonesia and Sri Lanka – from a richly decorated cannon to precious metals and jewelry – that were taken, often by force, in the colonial era. The government announced the planned restitution of 478 “cultural objects” on July […]
![At International African American Museum opening, a reclaiming of sacred ground for enslaved kin](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/130078-Ellis-Creek-Photography-IAAM-0106-Edit-1.jpg)
At International African American Museum opening, a reclaiming of sacred ground for enslaved kin
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – When the International African American Museum opened to the public June 27 in South Carolina, it became a new site of homecoming and pilgrimage for descendants of enslaved Africans whose arrival in the Western Hemisphere began on the docks of the lowcountry coast.
![Black women’s art collective celebrated at Concept Art Gallery sale, Dec. 10](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-29-at-4.01.32-PM-1.png)
Black women’s art collective celebrated at Concept Art Gallery sale, Dec. 10
PITTSBURGH – Concept Art Gallery will present a sale titled Women of Visions Benefit Auction on Saturday, December 10, beginning at 10 am Eastern time. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
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Yale hosts 50-year retrospective of Nigerian sculptor
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The Yale University Art Gallery has unveiled an exhibition of sculpture by the Nigerian artist Moshood Olusomo Bamigboye (circa 1885–1975), reuniting masterworks housed in collections in the United States, Europe and Nigeria. Bamigboye: A Master Sculptor of the Yoruba Tradition, on view through January 8, 2023, presents a comprehensive examination of […]