Sold201820th C. African Yoruba Wood Maternity Shrine FigureWestern Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, ca. mid 20th century CE. An enormous, hand-carved wooden statue of a mother feeding her resting infant. She is seated upon a petite stool atop an integral, barSee Sold Price
Sold2022African Yoruba Maternity Shrine FigureAfrican Yoruba Maternity Shrine Figure. Carved wood and pigment. Provenance: Ex. Estate Collection Isadore and Nancy Marder, Philadelphia; purchased 1972 from Galerie Carrefour, 141, Boulevard PaspailSee Sold Price
Sold2021A Eroded Old Dan Maternity SculptureA carved wooden female effigy with her child clinging to her back, a classic maternity shrine figure. The sculpture features elaborate incised linear designs representing tribal scars and jewelry as wSee Sold Price
Sold2023A Dan Maternity sculptureA carved wooden female effigy with her child clinging to her back, a classic maternity shrine figure. The sculpture features elaborate incised linear designs representing tribal scars and jewelry as wSee Sold Price
Sold2021A Fine Luba Maternity sculpture Ex Jean Pierre HalletA carved wooden female mother effigy with small child on her lap, holding on to her breast. The sculpture likely served as a element to a maternity shrine. The figure measures 15.5 inches tall. Luba pSee Sold Price
Sold2024A Fine Luba Maternity sculpture Ex Jean Pierre HalletA carved wooden female mother effigy with small child on her lap, holding on to her breast. The sculpture likely served as a element to a maternity shrine. The figure measures 15.5 inches tall. Luba pSee Sold Price
Sold2019Kneeling Bakongo Female Shrine Figure Collected 1965A carved wooden female effigy with ornate raised designs, necklace, armbands and scars, with a well weathered surface and woven rope and seed adornment. Bakongo peoples , Congo, Africa.Provenance: ExSee Sold Price
Sold2022SMALL FIGURE BAKONGO THE PRISONER CONGO ZAIRE CENTRAL AFRICASMALL FIGURE BAKONGO THE PRISONER CONGO ZAIRE CENTRAL AFRICA A male figure stands with hands bound together at the wrists symbolizing a prisioner. 4 1See Sold Price
Sold2022SMALL YONBE FIGURE MATERNITY CONGO ZAIRE CENTRAL AFRICASMALL YONBE FIGURE MATERNITY CONGO ZAIRE CENTRAL AFRICA Female figure on one knee with child at her breast. 3" X 8 1/2" ShipSee Sold Price
Sold2021YOMBE Maternity Figure statue Congo DRC African ArtTitle: YOMBE Maternity Figure statue Congo DRC African Art Kongo Bakongo 1378 Additional Information: CONGO RDC Cute YOMBE Maternity Figure The Yombe People is established in the Mayombe They belong tSee Sold Price
Sold2018A Monumental Urhobo Maternity Shrine sculptureA very large and rare old female sculpture with child, all carved from a single piece of wood. This figure of a nursing mother was most likely part of a community shrine that honored the founding anceSee Sold Price
Sold2021Cute Kongo YOMBE Phemba maternity figure Congo AfricanCONGO DRC Cute YOMBE Maternity Figure The statues representing maternity hospitals are called Phemba among the Yombe as well as in other Kongo peoples such as the Bakongo or the Vili The Yombe are a pSee Sold Price
Sold2023Large Nkisi Dog Power Figure Bakongo, Congo/ZaireAfrican Tribal Art: Bakongo People, Congo/Zaire: Large Nkisi Fetish/Power Figure of a Seated Dog. The carving is estimated to be from the late 19th century, with additions and modifications dating thrSee Sold Price
2023Fine Early African Fetish Figure, Bakongo, DRCAn exceptional early African Fetish Figure, Bakongo, Democratic Republic of Congo, formally the Congolese country of Zaire. A Nkisi power figure, carved and heavily embellished as for a Shamum's oraclSee Sold Price
Sold2020A Lobi Bateba Maternity Shrine Idol, African ArtA Carved wooden female effigy with highly stylized form and shown holding a child at her waist. The figure was carved from a heavy dense wood and has a very well weathered and eroded surface with layeSee Sold Price
Sold2015MAKONDE MATERNITY FIGUREThis is a shrine figure used by the Makonde women of Tanzania and Mozambique to help solve their problems which include – child sickness, establish the cause of death. Shows some aging and use 26" TSee Sold Price
Sold2018Eroded Yoruba Maternity Shrine Sculpture, African ArtA rare old female sculpture with child, all carved from a single piece of wood. This figure of a nursing mother was most likely part of a community shrine that honored the founding ancestors. Housed iSee Sold Price
Sold2019A Very Rare Bakongo Magic fetish Ex Jean Pierre HalletA Very rare and interesting old Bakongo figure, a magic fetish idol from a shrine. Bakongo peoples, Congo, central Africa. A very Rare type ,well carved. - Ex. Jean Pierre Hallet, La Jolla, CA. The feSee Sold Price
Sold2020Published 19th cent Bakongo Kneeling Figure with InfantA Very Rare and Important Bakongo Paternity figure shown kneeling and presenting a dead infant. Idol's such as this were kept on shrines and only brought out to recieve offerings at the death of an inSee Sold Price
Sold2021A Bakongo style Magic fetishA carved wooden "magic" effigy with inset glass eyes and enlarged belly suggesting a maternity type fetish. Bakongo peoples , DRC/ Congo, Africa. The figure measures 10 inches tall ( 13.75 inches on pSee Sold Price
Sold2020Rare Ngbaka Good Fortune Shrine Idol Collected 1975A Fine and rare Ngbaka figure, Collected in DR Congo prior to 1975 by Dr. Kenneth Adelman, Former director USAID Zaire. The fetish has a reddish mineral pigment rubbed into the wood, which according tSee Sold Price
2021A Yombe Phemba Maternity sculpture, African ArtA Carved wooden Figure of a Mother and Child (Phemba)from the Yombe / Bakongo peoples of the DRC/ Congo, central, Africa. Such sculptures of a mother nursing her child may have been used to increase oSee Sold Price
Sold2023NORTHWEST COAST WOOD SHRINE FIGUREcarved stylized male figure, the circular head with exaggerated features in relief, curved shoulders, slightly spread legs, rectangular torso; the face with distinct brow, almond shaped eyes, roundedSee Sold Price
Sold2018IGBO, MALE SHRINE FIGURE, NIGERIA20th c. Carved wood Without stand: 72" x 15" x 12" Provenance: Allan Stone Collection, New York The Igbo are one of Nigeria’s largest ethnic groups. Each Igbo village, defined by lineage, contains lSee Sold Price
Jun 04Heritage Auctions70333: A Kamba Maternity Figure Kenya, c. late 19th eaUS$340
Jun 08Simpson Galleries, LLC.AN AFRICAN "PRAYERFUL" SHRINE FIGURE OF A MAN, DOGON, MALI, MID 20TH CENTURYUS$50