A Yoruba Priest's Insignia, "yata"

Ethnographic Collector's Lot. Including Chinese minority Miao shoes, hat, African Yoruba "priest" bags and more. Size range from: 10'' x 4'' x 1'' (25 x 10 x 3 cm) to 22'' x 2'' x 2'' (56 x 5 x 5 cm).

Diviner / Priests Apron with fully beaded doll like figure holding a gourd vessel covered in textiles and numerous magic pouches and fetish material attached , large snail shells and goat horns, bones

2nd-3rd quarter 20thC. Standing male with left hand holding face staff. Has some wood erosion and beetle holes (not active), with a repaired left arm and hand. Holes drilled through feet show possible

A Large beaded bag with strap and the faces of Eshu which indicates use by a Diviner. Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, Africa. The main body of the bag when closed measures 13 x 12 inches, not counting the st

Rare Museum Quality Antique Elaborate Beaded Yoruba Shango Priest / Diviner Ceremonial Vest / Tunic - Yoruba, Nigeria. A remarkable piece of art that was hand-made / hand-stitched, with elaborate dens

This is a genuine antique Yoruba Ogun Priests necklace of hammered iron implements representing the tools and symbols of the God of Iron in the Yoruba and Vodoun religions. This necklace measures 44 i

Rare Original Antique Beaded Yoruba Diviner / Priest Vest / Tunic - Shango Diviner (IFA) Priest's Vest | Decorated with Glass and stone beads | Approx. Size: 28" H x 27.5" W (Folded).

West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba culture, ca. 19th to early 20th century CE. A beautiful and large leather and burlap bag decorated with hundreds of glass seed beads. The bag was intended for a priest or

**Originally Listed At $300** West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. The Yoruba use wood to carve figures of people they see in their everyday lives. After the arrival of the

A Yoruba Divination Board, 10" dia. The divination tray is the central instrument used by the diviner-priest in the complex Yoruba ritual of divination, whose purpose is making decisions, sacrifices,

A very large cast bronze sculpture of a Yoruba shaman holding a snake and a medicine horn. The Bronze measures 24 x 13 15 inches and is very heavy. Yoruba /Benin peoples, Nigeria, Africa.

A Pair of Yoruba Eshu Staffs with Original Accouterments Priests Nigeria Rarely does one encounter a pair like this with all the magical and representational attachments still present. Suspende

Carved from a very heavy and dense solid piece of wood, this ornate altar features a Shango priest wearing robes , a Shango cult staff and a Leopard image, all carved in relief. This heavy altar base

Old large lidded bowl used by an Ifa diviner priest as part of his divination ritual regalia. This example has such a fantastic energy to it, with raised zig zag linear designs and a image of Eshu, Th

wood, colour pigments, rest. These bowls were used to store the sixteen sacred palm nuts "ikin", which were used by the priests "babalawo" in the "ifa" divination ritual to consult Orunmila, the god o

West African, Nigeria. Yoruba beaded tunic / vest made of glass beads and cotton and depicting figures, snakes, geometric motifs, and animals. Traditionally worn on ceremonial occasions by priests ded

Equestrian warrior with a spear in its proper right hand, supporting a small bowl on its head. "Yoruba sculptors carved several of the implements that diviner-priests (babalawo) used in the Ifa divina

Fritz Scholder Luiseño, (1937-2005), 'Hopi Snake Priest,' 1972, acrylic on canvas, signed upper left, titled and inscribed verso, dated on gallery label verso. height 40in, width 30in Footnotes:

An Egyptian basalt bust of an official and priest for Wedja-Hoor-mehnet Late Period, 26th Dynasty, circa 664-525 B.C. Wearing a bag-wig tucked behind prominent ears, the face with almond-shaped eyes

Not visibly signed. With old labels and inventory numbers inscribed verso. From the estate of a New York art dealer. - Dimensions: 38.5" high x 31.5" wide.

Near East / Holy Land, Palmyra, Roman period, ca. 2nd to 3rd century CE. Wow! A stunning, naturalistic limestone head of a priest wearing a characteristically tubular headdress, known as a modius, enc

Zwillingsfiguren-Paar, "ere ibeji", Obembe Alaye Yoruba, Nigeria, Bundesstaat Ekiti Ohne Sockel / without base Holz, Glasperlen, Textil, Kaurischnecken. H 28 - 29 cm. Provenienz: - René und Denise Da

An Egyptian Stone Head of a Priest   Ptolemaic Period, Circa Late 4th Century B.C. Height 3 3/4 inches. Provenance: Joseph Brummer Collection, New York, prior to 1927.

Three gold plated enameled contemporary Society of Cincinnati state eagle insignia medals on ribbons comprising, a Connecticut, a Georgia Berrien, and a New Hampshire, apparently unmarked. Provenance: