A Fine Kuba Mukenga Elephant Mask

Kuba Mukyeen "Elephant" Helmet Mask, African Art Congo - C. Mid-20th century. A ceremonial Mukyeen (Mukenga) "Elephant" mask of the Kuba Peoples of what is now the Democratic Republic. The mukenga mas

mid 20th c African Kuba "mukenga" mask, mashamboy initiation headdress, ht 17"

A Finely carved and painted wooden mask with elaborate headdress of woven grass and cowrie shell designs. The Ngaady-a-Mwash is one of a triad of masks that are danced to symbolize mythical characters

A Carved wooden mask with stylized facial features, raised designs and overall stylized form. The mask has an attached raffia grass headdress adorned with cowrie shells. Kuba Peoples, Congo, Africa. T

A Carved wooden dance mask with attached headdress adorned with cowrie shells and attached animal hide beard. The mask features strong facial style , old glass beads and raffia grass coiffure atop the

A carved wooden ceremonial dance mask with carved and painted incised linear designs as well as painted geometric motifs, well handled and weathered surface suggesting good age and field use. The mask

A carved wooden flat face mask that was once part of a larger helmet mask, painted with linear designs and organic earthen pigments. Kuba peoples , Congo, Africa. Provenance: Ex Irwin Cemic collection

A Carved wooden helmet style mask embellished with various hammered metals, seeds, glass beads and shells. Decorated with incised linear designs. Kuba peoples, DRC/ Congo, central Africa. The mask mea

A Fine Old Kuba Bwoom mask embellished with various seeds and beads, animal hide ( now decayed) and hand hammered copper sheet. The bwoom is one of three types of royal Kuba masks, all of which are tr

A carved wooden helmet mask adorned with copper sheet, animal hide and embellished with numerous glass beads and textiles. The Bwoom mask was worn at boys initiations where it would represent the natu

A Fine and old Northern Kuba mask, Kuba- Ngeende or Ngongo; D.R. CongoA fine 'Nyibita' mask of exceedingly attenuated form, the flat narrow forehead deeply carved into the recesses of the ocular orbit

A very finely carved wooden mask with attached headdress and wonderfully painted geometric designs throughout. This mask represented a wise older man at boys’ initiations. One of the principal Kuba

A large carved wooden and decorated helmet mask with ornate beadwork set into a dizzying design with accenting cowrie shells. Kuba peoples, Congo, Africa. The helmet mask measures 13 x 12 inches, this

A highly stylized mask with curled horns and large flattened nose. Carved from a hard wood and painted with geometric tribal motifs. This mask type, called "Pwoom Itok" or "Ishen Maal" is occasionally

Ca. first half 20thC. Very good with age appropriate wear including some wood and surface/pigment losses. Fine in carved and painted wood featuring copper, cowries, and good antique glass trade beads.

A carved wooden face mask with dark painted geometric designs and stylized horns around the eyes. The mask is adorned with a raffia grass headdress and crown of feathers. Kuba peoples, DRC/Congo, cent

Carved wooden helmet mask with dramatic bulging forehead accented with shells, beads and metal work. A bold and powerful example of the style. During a dance performance, the bwoom mask introduces an

Full title: A Kuba helmet mask (mukenga) with cowrie shells, Congo, 20th C. Description: H 64,5 x L 60 x D 60 cm About this sale: Paul De Grande is one of the major dealers of antique furniture, fine

A Carved wooden mask with polychrome pigments and attached raffia grass and rattan fiber headdress. This mask may have represented a wise older man at boys’ initiations. One of the principal Ku

A Carved wooden mask that represented a wise older man at boys initiations known as "Pwoom itok". The chief identifying characteristic is the shape of the eyes, whose centers are cones surrounded by h

A Very finely carved and painted Kuba peoples mask with elaborate woven grass headdress accented with cowrie shells. Kuba peoples, Congo, Africa. The mask measures 14 x 7.5 inches. The mask has a 5.5

This is a beautiful older carved wooden mask from the Kuba peoples of the DRC/ CONGO, central Africa. This mask features an elongated face decorated with various tribal motifs and geometric forms, A w

A Beautiful old field used dance mask with elaborate painted designs and embellished with shells beads and textiles. Kuba peoples, DRC/ Congo, central Africa. This mask is known as "Ngaady a Mwaash" t

An Extraordinary Chinese Carved White Jade Covered Censer, of Semi-Rectangular shaped, wider o the gallery mouth, raised on the four straight legs, two elephants mask emerged from the rim holding ring