Mid 20th C. Balinese Wood Mask - King of the Spirits

**First Time At Auction** Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Bali, ca. mid-20th century CE. A playful, striking Barong mask with a long ribbon tongue. The mask itself is wood, with tusks and huge canines exte

Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Java, ca. mid-19th to early 20th century CE. A fantastic topeng dance mask with a hinged jaw of a barong singha, a lion-like creature who is king of the spirits and leader o

Africa, Nigeria, Ogoni peoples, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. This is a fun example of one of the Ogoni "elu" (spirit) masks,cane wood masks with white-painted faces, narrow eyes, prominent noses

Old Alutiiq Eskimo Spirit Mask Painted Wood 12''x6''x4.5''. Polychrome painted mask with applied seal skin edges. Overall excellent condition. Mid 20th century. Mounted on verso with metal bracket for

Mid 20th c Bamum People (Cameroon ) Bird/Spirit helmet Mask, With Lizards wood and polychrome 19 x 10 x 7"

Africa, Nigeria, Ogoni peoples, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. This is a fun example of one of the Ogoni "elu" (spirit) masks, which are cane wood masks with white-painted faces, narrow eyes, promi

Igbo spirit maiden mask, elaborately carved and painted wood with neck cloth and short and long coiffure ties, early to mid-20th century with unfinished interior, 23” from top to bottom neck cloth,

West Africa, Burkina Faso, Bwa peoples, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. A splendid and sizeable wooden mask depicting a nature spirit in the form of a stylized hawk or vulture, known as a duho. Embe

**Originally Listed At $150** Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Bali, early 20th century CE. A fascinating and ornately-carved wooden mask form of a face with sharp canines and a bright red extended tongue.

**First Time At Auction** Mieczyslaw Antuszewicz (Polish, b. 1927), two untitled wooden masks, ca. mid 20th century CE. A pair of fun wooden masks, both signed on the versos, hand-carved and decorated

Indian Theyyam Headdress Mask, North Kerala, Early-Mid 20th Century. Carved wood. This mask centers the frontal face of Thira, a form of the goddess Kali in Kerala. It is surrounded by an assemblage o

Western Africa, Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire, Dan peoples, ca. early to mid-20th century. A wood passport mask. In characteristic style, the eye area is sunken while the forehead and chin thrust outward

Africa, Nigeria, Ogoni, ca. 1950 CE. A hand-carved and painted face mask featuring a dramatic human face with a tri-lobed, somewhat horn-like coiffure, a tall projection (perhaps a reference to the ya

**Originally Listed At $200** Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba, ca. mid 20th century CE. A hand-carved and painted Egungun headdress depicting a bearded visage with very high pointed rabbit-like ears. Egungun

**Originally Listed At $200** Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba, ca. mid 20th century CE. A hand-carved and painted Egungun headdress depicting a bearded visage with very high pointed rabbit-like ears. Egungun

**Originally Listed At $500** West Africa, Liberia or Sierra Leone, Mende people, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A darkened wood mask with a small carved face, triangular-shaped chin, narrowed eyes

**Originally Listed At $250** Western Africa, Nigeria, Niger River Delta, Ibibio peoples, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. An expressive wood mask intended to represent a diseased or deformed individ

Portuguesa, mid 20th century, in king wood and mahogany, inlaid in metal, feet in carved, hollow and painted wood. Signs of use. Dim .: 73x240x119 cm.

East Asia, Japan, Meiji to Showa Period, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. A striking wood mask, hand-carved in the Noh theatre tradition to portray the face of a demon or a kishin. Lined with numerou

A Northwest Coast-style maskMid-20th centuryA small carved wood mask with painted features and red curvilinear and geometric accents6.875" H x 4.875" W x 2.5" D

A mid-20th century wood carved, polychrome antelope mask is from Burkina Faso. Masks such as this are worn on top of the head during performances and are kept on altars when not being ritually worn.

Mid 20th c. Balinese carved teak dragon spirit guardian figure with polychrome painted surface 23" x 14" x 6"

**Originally Listed At $200** Western Africa, Nigeria, Ogoni peoples, ca. mid-20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden mask of a minimalist form with an articulated mandible. The ovoid vizard features sl

**Originally Listed At $200** West Africa, Nigeria, Igbo peoples, ca. mid-20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden dance mask from the Afikpo peoples, a larger subgroup of people within the larger Igbo n