Sold2018Early 20th C. Tall African Yoruba Iron Ceremonial Staff**Originally Listed At $200** West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba people, early 20th century CE. A tall iron staff with long bells on its lower part and capped by a bird finial atop a thin round disk. BelowSee Sold Price
Sold2017Early 20th C African Yoruba Iron Staff w/ Bird & BellsWest Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba people, early 20th century CE. A tall iron staff with two groups of long bells spaced out along it. The staff is capped by a bird finial below an upside-down group of fourSee Sold Price
Sold201720th C. African Yoruba Iron Staff with Bells**Originally Listed at $100** West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba people, early 20th century CE. A ceremonial iron staff with a tripartite top portion consisting of three cylinders of iron twisted into a spiSee Sold Price
Sold2017Early 20th C. Pair of Yoruba Iron Bird StaffsWest Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba people, ca. early 20th century CE. A pair of iron bird staffs. The first is a tall iron staff with long bells on its lower part and capped by a bird finial atop a thin rouSee Sold Price
Sold2021Early 20th C. African Yoruba Wooden Shango StaffWest Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba culture, ca. early 20th century CE. An intriguing ceremonial staff known as an ose Shango depicting a stylized woman kneeling atop an integral rectangular plinth. The womaSee Sold Price
Sold2018Early 20th C. African Yoruba Wood Ose Shango Dance Wand**Originally Listed At $200** Western Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A carved wooden figural finial for a ceremonial staff honoring Shango (also known as Jakuta), aSee Sold Price
Sold2020Early 20th C. African Yoruba Wooden Shango Staff**Originally Listed At $200** West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. A large ceremonial staff carved from wood with an upper portion shaped like a double-axe-blade, and the gSee Sold Price
Sold201620th C. African Yoruba Iron Medicine Osanyin StaffWest Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, early 20th century CE. A forged iron staff topped with a ring of small peacock-like birds standing around a central bird on an iron ring. The birds are stylized bSee Sold Price
Sold2017Early 20th C. African Senufo Iron Prestige Staff**Originally Listed At $600** Africa, Ivory Coast, Senufo people, ca. early 20th century CE. A tall staff made of a thin blade of iron and capped with a wooden figure of a woman. Wrapped around the woSee Sold Price
Sold2023Herbalists Staff, Wrought Iron, Yoruba Peoples, Nigeria, West AfricaHerbalists staff, wrought iron, Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, West Africa, likely 19th century or early 20th century.Approximate size, 26"H x 12"W, Exhibited, "Iron Clad, Fancy Free: Exhibition of AfricanSee Sold Price
Sold2019Early 20th C. Yoruba Wood Shango Staff w/ Woman**Originally Listed At $300** West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. A ceremonial staff carved from wood with an axe blade-like upper portion and the body of a woman integratSee Sold Price
Sold2023Late 19th C. Nigerian Yoruba Iron Diviner's Bird StaffWest Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba, ca. late 19th to mid-20th century CE. An iron ceremonial diviner's staff with a bird finial. Birds have a special significance to the Yoruba, representing the triumph ofSee Sold Price
Sold2017Early 20th C. Wooden Yoruba Shango Staff**First Time At Auction** Africa, Nigeria, early 20th century CE. A carved wooden figural finial for a ceremonial staff honoring Shango (also known as Jakuta), a royal ancestor of the Yoruba who was tSee Sold Price
Sold2021TWO AFRICAN YORUBA PEOPLE BRASS MALE/FEMALE EDAN OGBONITWO AFRICAN YORUBA PEOPLE BRASS MALE/FEMALE EDAN OGBONI SOCIETY STAFF FINIALS, NIGERIAN, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY, the seated pair chained to each other and cast on tapering wrought iron spikes, tSee Sold Price
Sold2020Early 20th C. African Yoruba Iron Gong Currency**Originally Listed At $100** West Africa, northern Nigeria, Yoruba, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. A fine example of a forged-iron gong currency piece with a hollow, bell-shaped body, pinched periSee Sold Price
Sold201719th C. African Yoruba Iron Ceremonial StaffWest Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba Tribe, 19th century CE or earlier. Rare Opa Osanyin herbalist's staff. Made of hand-forged iron with staff in a long spear shaped support to which a ring of applied birdsSee Sold Price
Sold2017Tall Early 20th C. African Yoruba Wooden Mask**First Time At Auction** West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba culture, ca. early 20th century. A tall, abstract, hand-carved wooden mask. It features very deeply cut, rectangular eyes underneath a heavy browSee Sold Price
Sold2016Early 20th c. Iron ceremonial figure, DogonEarly 20th c. Thin iron ceremonial figure, Dogon. 1 7/8 x 1 7/8'', 8 1/4''hSee Sold Price
Sold2021Rare African Ceremonial StaffCentral Africa, perhaps Mbala, ca. late 19th - early 20th century. Very old, square sectioned staff surmounted by a standing female figure, a separately carved bird pegged in below. MEASUREMENTS HeighSee Sold Price
Sold2018Mid-20th C. African Yoruba Wood Ceremonial StaffWestern Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, ca. mid 20th century CE. A fine, hand-carved wooden ceremonial staff depicting a pair of heads with almond eyes, prominent noses, full lips, scarification markSee Sold Price
Sold2023Large Early 20th C. Yoruba Ceremonial CrownLarge Early 20th Century Yoruba (Benin) Impressive Multi-Color Beaded and Nassa Shell Ceremonial Crown Headdress with King on Horseback and Guardian Figures Surmounted Top. Overall measures 27-1/2" xSee Sold Price
Sold201820th C. African Yoruba Gelede Wood Helmet Mask**First Time At Auction** West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. A tall and finely-detailed carved wooden Gelede mask, hand-painted in red, white, and blue hues. The overallSee Sold Price
Sold2018African Yoruba Ere-Ibeji Wooden Female Figure**Originally Listed At $125** West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. A tall wooden Ere Ibeji figure standing upon an integral circular base, hand-carved to represent a deceasSee Sold Price
Sold2016Tall 19th C. Yoruba Wood Figure of a WomanWest Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba people, ca. 19th to early 20th century CE. A tall wooden statue in the style of the palace of Ikere, where all sculptures were made by Olowe of Ise in the first few decadeSee Sold Price
3 days LeftHeritage Auctions70318: A Mossi Iron Staff Finial Burkina Faso, c. 19th$1,000
Jun 18Material CultureCountry Cloth/Kpokpo, Mende, Sierra Leone, Early 20th C., 4'4'' x 6'10''$150(1 bid)