A Yoruba Gelede Festival Mask Ex Marshall Mount Collection

A carved wooden helmet style mask featuring a well carved coiffure, raised jagged crest and large eyes painted with white kaolin clay pigments and red mineral paints. An older field used example. Yoru

A wonderfully exaggerated old carved wooden festival dance mask with a classic face and a unusual headdress finial, that appears to be a large Book like form atop a central post. The mask shows cler f

A fascinating festival helmet mask with zoomorphic figures on top of a plank structure on top of the festival mask, painted in bright colors and showing signs of field use and wear. Yoruba peoples, Ni

A carved wooden mask with encrusted surface heavily patinated with organic substances. The Mask was worn by a man of the AWA society, acting as an aggressive "Hunter" during dancers who would stalk th

A striking carved wooden parade mask with seated ancestor as top finial and elaborate and detailed carved designs and tribal motifs, embellished with small bits of mirror and black pigments, raffia gr

A carved wood and highly stylized diminutive face mask with brightly painted designs accented with mineral pigments. The Back of the mask has some basketry work. Afikpo Igbo are typically small and na

A carved wooden ceremonial mask rendered in a highly stylized zoomorphic form and decorated with black pigment. The mask has a well handled surface and measures 15 x 10 inches. A metal display stand c

A classic carved wooden helmet style mask with openwork designs on top, large flat hat like feature with many well worn holes on top, perhaps to hold feathers and other regalia, accented with kaolin c

A Carved wooden helmet mask with colorful and elaborate stylized headdress, carved coiffure with hanging locks and painted red face with energetic facial expression. Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, Africa. T

A carved wooden Twin idol with incised coiffure and facial scars, raised emblem design, inset metal eye ( one missing) and a well handled and worn surface. The Idol measures 10 inches tall, and will a

African Yoruba-Anago Gelede Mask, Benin. With a pair of figures. Carved wood, pigment and fabric. Provenance: Artemis, 8/18/2017, Lot 111A. Ex Collection Prof. Gene R. Shreve, South Yarmouth, Massachu

Very Old carved wooden mask from the Yoruba peoples of Nigeria, West Africa. Measures 15 x 10 inches. Ex Robert banks collection, Maryland.

A Charming Old carved wooden helmet mask from the Yoruba of Nigeria. A Gelede festival mask of a colonial era soldier. The mask measures 11 x 9 inches. A metal display stand can be included for an add

Pair of African Yoruba Ibeji Cowrie Shell Jackets, Nigeria. Ex collection Professor Marshall Mount, Jersey City, NJ. Size: Each 7.5'' x 11'' x 1'' (19 x 28 x 3 cm).

A very nice old Bamileke Sword in sheath, forged steel blade, well worn wooden handle, wooden sheath embellished with animal hid and textile attachment belt. Bamileke peoples, Cameroon, West Africa. T

A very nice old Bamileke Sword in sheath, forged steel blade, well worn wooden handle, wooden sheath embellished with cowrie shells and textile attachment belt. Bamileke peoples, Cameroon, West Africa

A carved wood and painted "Uden Nyama" or fatting house doll from the cross river region of Nigeria, West Africa. This lovely wooden doll was given to young unwed girl at the time of entering the Ibib

A very unusual carved wood and textile effigy with painted spots and cowrie shell eyes. These works and the ritual practice in which they are used are both known as kafigeledjo which translates as he

A Wonderful well used dance mask or helmet with traditional facial style, and elaborate crown, accented with mineral pigments. The Gelede festival is held annually during the beginning of every new ag

A charming carved wooden helmet mask featuring a marionette figure on top of a classic Gelede festival dance mask. The mask has plenty of wear and handling suggesting actual field use. The marionette

A Carved wooden helmet or cap mask with classic facial features and vegetable like finials on top. The mask is well handled showing field use and wear. Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, Africa. The mask itself

A carved stone effigy with raised and incised coiffure, incised facial scars, large ears and flared snout, arms to the abdomen, with a well handled surface. The sculpture measures 8.75 inches tall , 1

Old and fragmented couple shown in what appear to be derby hats and shown seated on stools which are worn away. The set measures 9.25 x 5.25 inches and are in fair to fragile condition, the set does n

A wonderful and interesting woven fiber hat embellished with various seeds and shells and was likely worn by a village priest or shaman. The hat measures 9 x 5 inches , 7.5 inches tall on professional