Grass Helmet Mask

A carved wooden and painted helmet mask with a long raffia grass collar attached to hide the dancer. This wooden mask is associated with a secret women's society which exists in parts of West Africa,

A Fantastic older and well used carved wooden helmet style mask with elaborate painted designs and woven grass textiles, along with animal skins, cowrie shells, beads , feathers and more. This ornate

A large carved wooden helmet mask with white kaolin clay pigment and a stylized antelope final, adorned with a raffia grass collar. Suku peoples, Congo, Africa.Throughout southern Democratic Republic

A fascinating carved wooden mask with stylized form and abstract eyes that appear as many holes. decorated with raffia grass crown. Kuba peoples, Congo, Africa. The mask measures 13 x 10 inches. A met

A carved wooden helmet style mask with open work eyes, raised facial designs and forms, attached raffia grass collar and feather headdress. Kuba peoples, Congo, Africa. The mask measures 18 x 9. A met

A tall carved wooden helmet mask with various colorful mineral pigments and painted spots, adorned with raffia grass. Kwese peoples, DRC/ Congo, central Africa. A metal display stand may also be inclu

A large carved wooden zoomorphic helmet mask with stylized face and horns of a ram, kaolin clay painted surface, and embellished with raffia grass to cover the wearer. Suku peoples, DRC/ Congo, West A

A Vintage to Antique carved wooden Dance mask with woven basketry helmet and raffia grass collar / beard. The mask was embellished with old glass beads and cowrie shells. Kuba lele ethnic group, DRC/

Wonderfully bizarre helmet mask with basketry cap and Bronze mask face, adorned with a tall lizard like finial accented with resins and cowrie shells and raffia grass. The mask measures 27 inches tall

This is a very fine and rare Kwango area Buffalo mask. Carved wooden helmet style mask with various colored kaolin clay pigments and a large raffia grass collar. Yaka or Suku peoples, Congo, Africa. *

Carved wooden helmet style mask embellished with hammered copper, beads, shells and woven grass textiles . Such masks were worn during male initiation ceremonies known as "nkaan". A mask like the one

Carved wooden helmet style mask of an ancestor face. A woven grass rope adorns the mask as well. The Wood is light weight and has a golden brown color and shiny patina. Makonde peoples, Tanzania, Afri

A carved wooden semi-helmet style dance mask with classic linear designs, abstract form and with raffia grass netting attached. Kifwebe secret society, Basongye peoples, DRC/ Congo, Africa. The mask i

This is a very interesting contemporary African mask from Angola and the Chokwe peoples. The carved wooden mask face is adorned with raffia grass beads, basket like helmet and extremely long woven rop

A carved wooden helmet with attached raffia grass collar and incised designs, inset seeds and well handled surface patina. Included with mask is a photo copy of a mid 20th century photo of the village

lime wood (Alstonia Scholaris), coconut husk, rattan, bark cloth, plant fibre, fabric, lime, pigments (red, black), opercula, inventory no. "87L162", rest., baseEarlier ethnologists believed that "tat

Egypt, Ptolemaic period, ca. 332 to 30 BCE. Beautifully crafted from imported wood layered with gesso and linen, a stunning gilded mummy mask meant for a male child with a stylized, theatrical counten

wood, thickly encrusted sacrificial patina, blackened by smoke and soot, collection no. Afrika Museum Berg en Dal "222-4", labeled "Nachtmasker Bamum" The "troh" covenant is also called the "night" or

** A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this lot will benefit The Fowler Museum at UCLA **Asia, possibly Burma, ca. late 19th to early 20th century. Rare mask in helmet carved from a single piec

Exceptional three quarter helmet mask with classical Bakongo facial features. Rendered realistically with grinning face and remains of original mineral pigments. * One of only three known examples of

Mende Helmet Mask, Sierra Leone soweii Wood with burnished black shiny patina Height 19in (48.2cm) Provenance Mauricio and Emilia Lasansky Collection, Iowa City Jerry Solomon Collection, Los Angeles

wood, greyish brown patina, kaolin, animal bristles, dome-shaped helmet in the centre, a long triangular snout protruding from the front, a pair of broad flat horns connected at their tips, larger are

AFRICAN SIERRA LEONE SANDE SOCIETY HELMET MASK African Sande Society initiation helmet mask, Sierra Leone, 20th century. Decorated with long fiber skirt along base. Size: 15" (excluding fiber skirt)

A helmet mask with four horns. West Africa. 20th century. 16 1/2"h x 16"w x 14"d. Provenance: Inventory and Collection from the Estate of Merton D. Simpson. Catalog Notes: Simpson Inventory #6227, Pur