Early 20th C. Yoruba Wooden Figural Divination Staff

**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), a

**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 t

**First Time At Auction** West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba people, ca. 19th to early 20th century CE. A fantastic, hand-carved, round tray, with a flat center and a ring of raised iconography around the u

West 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 woma

**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 g

**Originally Listed At $100** West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba people, early 20th century CE. A tall, wooden, phallic-shaped shrine or divination figure, in the form of a long, cylindrical body with a fla

West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. A lovely hand carved wooden figural bust of a face topped by a large, hooked coiffure or headdress shaped like an axe blade. A t

**First Time At Auction** West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba people, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A carved wooden divination board of a circular form and a peripheral border of incised linear, circular

**Originally Listed At $200** West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba, ca. early 20th century CE. A beautiful, hand-carved wooden Yoruba Ose Sango (also known as a Shango Staff or dance wand) of a traditional fo

West Africa, Guinea / Liberia, Loma (also Looma, Lorma, Loghoma, or Toma) peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. A wonderfully abstract wooden, textile, and hide figural element from the top of a staff,

**Originally Listed At $300** West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden divination board of a rectangular form that has slightly concave peripheries,

**Originally Listed At $150** West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. A hand-carved male Ere Ibeji twin figure with large feet and parted legs, delineated genitalia, protrudin

**Originally Listed At $800** West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. A set of hand-carved wooden Ere Ibeji figures depicting a matched pair of female twins. The figures have

**Originally Listed At $400** West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden figure standing atop delineated legs and wearing a shin-length apron with an exposed

**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 brow

**Originally Listed At $200** Western Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A beautiful divination vessel (agere ifa), hand-carved from a hard wood, used to store the sixt

**Originally Listed At $250** West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden female figure standing atop an integral circular base with delineated legs. A

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Western Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. A stunning helmet mask, hand-carved from a single piece of wood, with an expressive countenance and vibrant coloration. A flared bot

West 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 four

West Africa, Mali, Dogon or Bamana, early to mid 20th century CE. A hand-carved lock intended for a granary door, made of wood featuring three anthropomorphic figures. Three simple heads project from

**Originally Listed At $200** West Africa, Yoruba peoples, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A fine example of one of the most distinctive forms of West African masks: a helmet Gelede mask, made to be

**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 integrat

West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A dark wood carving of a standing woman with an enormous rectangular crest on top of her head. A staff like this is called an Os