African Yoruba Maternity Figure

African Yoruba Maternity Shrine Figure. Carved wood and pigment. Provenance: Ex. Estate Collection Isadore and Nancy Marder, Philadelphia; purchased 1972 from Galerie Carrefour, 141, Boulevard Paspail

Western 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, bar

African Maternity Figure, 20th Century, Yoruba, carved wood, Provenance: Museum of African Art, 19" h

A group of three West African figures. 20th century. ++ Yoruba kneeling maternity figure holding bowl. Nigeria. 19" x 7" x 10 1/2". ++ Benin style brass standing figure holding a sword. Nigeria. 2" x

Collectors Lot of African Artifacts. Including: Yoruba offering bowl, maternity figure and pulley. Carved wood, pigment, plant fiber. Size: 22'' x 6.5'' x 8.5'' (56 x 17 x 22 cm).

Group of three African Yoruba, Benin/Nigeria carved wood maternity figures; H: 19" (tallest, approx.)

Measurements (inches) & Weight (pounds) Height: 24" Width: 7.5" Depth: 8" Weight: 3.75 lbs A colorful Yoruba maternity figure featuring a seated female figure holding two objects in her hands and

Type: Carving / sculptureMaterials: WoodMarkings & Inscriptions: UnmarkedDate: Early 20th centuryMaker: African (Nigeria, Yoruba)Description: A carved wood maternity figure or fetish, depicting a fema

Height: 23.5" Width: 7.5" Depth: 9.5" Weight: 9 lbs This interesting figure was carved into a kneeling female holding a container with a small infant on her back.

Height: 22" Width: 11" Depth: 5" Weight: 3.5 lbs This beautifully sculpted statue features one large female figure in the middle with two smaller figures on either side.

Two African Figures, A bronze standing figure, with head in the style of a Mama Bushcow mask, hands at hips, on a wood base; and a Yoruba style west African maternity figure, intricately carved on an

Two African carved wood maternity figures; Yoruba, Nigeria olumeye (offering bowl figure); together with Chokwe, Angola/Democratic Republic of the Congo/Zambia seated with child in lap, wearin

Group (6) West African style maternity figures, Including Baule and Yoruba, one with textile loincloth, 16.5"h (largest), 6.25"h (smallest) Provenance: Estate of Distinguished Professor Philip Gould,

Grosse Materité Yoruba, Nigeria Mit Sockel / with base Holz. H 64 cm. Provenienz: Nachlass René David (1928-2015), Zürich. Ausgestellt: Musée International du Golfe de Guinée, Togo (2005-2011). C

20th century; the first a Bangwa memorial figure (22 in.); the second a Yoruba maternity figure with offering bowl (26.5 in.) (loss to one breast, several stable cracks, some loss to verso of figure);

A group of three African objects. 20th century. ++ Yoruba style offertory cup with maternity figure. Nigeria.10 1/2" x 8" x 6 1/2". ++ Suku style mask. D. R. Congo. 14" x 10 1/2" x 6 1/2". ++ Suku sty

West African carved wood "Olumeye" (offering bowl), Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, kneeling maternity figure with elaborate headdress, two small children at her arms, a third child surmounting the lid of an

Title: Yoruba polychrome maternity wood figure - Nigeria - African Art Tribal Art Type: Figure, maternity, statue Date/Period: Second half 20th century Origin: Nigeria Dimension: 10,24 Inch Weight: 1,

Four African Carved Wood Figures. Including a anthropomorphic cup, a Yoruba figure, Fanti style maternity figure and a white-painted male figure. Provenance: Collection of Allan Stone, New York. Sizes

A 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 i

A finely carved female effigy with 3 children , elaborate raisd designs , heavy indigo and mineral pigments and signs of field use. Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, Africa. This superb carved wooden figure of

CONGO DRC PENDE - Beautiful maternity figure Beautiful statue of a mother holding her child in her arms The sculpture is classic and well representative of the tribe, right down to the child's hat. Be

A Pende maternity figure, D.R. Congo, depicting a mother with child on her hip and representing the fertility and the continuing lineage of the tribe, covered in red pigment and black, classically dis

Mutter-Kind-Figur Baule, Côte d’Ivoire Ohne Sockel / without base Holz. H 51 cm. Provenienz: Claude Goretta (1929-2019), Genf. CHF 500 / 1 000 EUR 430 / 860