Old Yoruba Festival Mask, African Art

A carved wooden mask featuring traditional style face with long front locks, painted designs and obvious handling and wear. Old nails in the back suggest the mask was attached to a costume at some poi

A carved wooden mask with painted red face and green and yellow ceremonial cap. The mask has traditional facial features and signs of field use and wear. Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, Africa. The mask meas

This is a very old and well used Yoruba peoples Gelded festival mask or headdress, Nigeria, Africa. This heavily weathered and field used headdress has a wonderful head full of twisted dreadlocks, and

A Carved wooden dance mask with apparent field use and wear, painted linear designs and signs of handling and wear. Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, Africa. The mask measures 17 x 11 inches. A durable mask di

A Very rare, old and interesting wooden mask from the Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, Africa. Carved wooden helmet style mask with a smiling face and open headdress and painted green face. The top of the mas

This is a wonderful old African mask from the Baule peoples, Ivory Coast of West Africa. painted Red wooden mask with stylized antelope horns and round geometric face accented with finely incised desi

A carved wooden mask with well weathered surface, some old insect damage and obvious weather decay, all carved from a single piece of wood. From the Yoruba peoples of Nigeria West Africa. The Yoruba t

A Very large carved wooden helmet mask depicting a deformed face with abstract facial features and form. An old metal strip in nailed to one side to repair a stress fracture. The mask is quite large a

A Very rare old wooden mask from the Baule peoples, Cote De Ivorie, West Africa. Carved wood with a large round geometric face and classic carving style, the tall antelope horns and cubistic like faci

An old Yoruba helmet mask, with remains of pigmentation and scarification. 11 x 9 "; 6 lbs. 11 oz. Provenance: Acquired on the New York, NY art market.

This is a very old and well used Yoruba peoples Gelede festival mask or headdress, Nigeria, Africa. This heavily weathered and field used mask has a finial representing 2 DUN DUN or Talking drums on e

A Finely carved tall wooden drum with animal skin drum head and wooden spikes inserted around the drum head perimeter. The mask is highly decorated with faces and geometric designs, and overall shows

This is a very old and well used Igala peoples festival mask or headdress, Nigeria, Africa. This heavily weathered and field used mask features traditional ceremonial scars and a diminutive face, with

This is a large well weathered old wooden mask carved by the Dogon peoples of Mali, West Africa. This Mask represents the Dyommo or Rabbit and was worn during festivals and ceremonial rituals of the D

This is an old hand carved wooden mask from the Biombo Peoples, Congo / DRC , Africa. Masks of this type are known as "Tshimwana" which were used during Initiation festivals. The mask was decorated wi

A carved wooden round face mask with stylized antelope horns and a earthen red paint pigment. The mask has a mouth bit in the back and measures 14 x 8 inches. * A durable metal display stand can be in

A very highly stylized wooden mask in the form of a "water Spirit" and worn on a costume during yearly rituals and festivals honoring the water spirits. Ijaw peoples, Cross River region, Nigeria, Afri

A carved wooden geometric shaped dance mask painted black and adorned with horns. Baule peoples, Ivory Coast, West Africa. The mask measures 15 x 8 inches. * A durable metal display stand can be inclu

Maske Yoruba, Nigeria Gesockelt / with custom base Holz. H 17 cm. Provenienz: Galerie Walu, Zürich. CHF 800 / 1 600 EUR 688 / 1 376

A Carved wooden geometric mask with serene and simple design and highly stylized form. Baule peoples, Cote D'Ivoire, West Africa. The mask measures 20 x 10.5 inches. A metal display stand can be inclu

This mask is quite an uncommon example from the festivals/ masquerades of the Tiv people, Nigeria, Africa. Carved wood with a highly stylized human face, accented with a bright paint and with the addi

Maske Yoruba, Nigeria Gesockelt / with custom base Holz. H 17 cm. Provenienz: Galerie Walu, Zürich. CHF 800 / 1 600 EUR 688 / 1 376

A fairly large carved wooden geometric mask with simplistic facial features and raised area in the back to hold a collar of raffia grass to hide the dancer. baule peoples, Cote D'ivoire, West Africa.

Carved wooden mask in geometric form with protruding eyes and antelope horns, mouth bit on the back for dancer. The mask measures 14 x 9 inches.