Ex Museum 1978 Fon Bocio Ceremonial Post , Voodoo

A Fon bocio wood sculpture, literally an empowered object which is related to Vodun or Voodoo, a religious belief in mysterious forces that govern the world and the lives of those who reside in it. Vo

Kuba Peoples, Ikula ceremonial knife, ex-museum, 20th c., Democratic Republic of the Congo, carved wood hilt, hammered metal blade, 8"l Provenance: Deaccessioned works benefiting the Newark Museum

Kuba Peoples, ceremonial libation cup, ex-museum, 20th c., Zaire, dark patina carved hardwood, figured as a crouching figure with ram's horns, 8"h x 6"sqr Provenance: Deaccessioned works benefiting th

Post-Revolutionary War to Civil War Ex: Museum Display Silver Hudson's Bay Type Fur Trade Cross with Multiple Hallmark Stamps on a Beaded Neckless c. 1900, Silver Hudson's Bay Type Fur Trade Cross, Po

Dan figural ceremonial spoon, ex Wright, Ivory Coast, large spoon carved in the form of a female figure, affixed on top of posts to wood base, 29"h (spoon), 32"h x 5"w x 4.75"d (with base) Provenance:

Benin, 9", mixed media, ex collection Marylin Houlberg, a leading expert on the art of Haitian voodoo, Professor Emeritus of Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Please note that

Pre-Columbian, southeastern Mexico, Chontal, ca. 800 to 300 BCE. Huge greenstone standing "blind" figure showing very strong Olmec chacteristics, but clearly Chontal from the Guerrero region. He stand

African Tribal, equestrian figure, ex-museum, 20th c., probably Dogon or Senufo, dark patina carved wood, depicting Mandeo or Tugu spirit rider on steed, 16"h x 8"l x 4"w Provenance: Deaccessioned wor

(10) Ancient Roman bronze tools, ex-museum, Possibly 200-300 CE, Incl. (9) compass dividers and (1) weight, 7.75"l (largest), 4.25"l (smallest) Provenance: Deaccessioned works benefiting the Newark Mu

Idoma Peoples, carved mask, ex-museum, 20th c., Nigeria, dark patina wood, carved with attenuated features, mounted to custom display board, museum accession number on rim, 12"l x 9"w (mask), 14.5"h x

Chinese School, ancestral portrait, ex Museum, Ming Dynasty (17th c.), Official's Wife, colors on silk mounted to paper, depicted in robes decorated with leaf design, and elaborately embellished sash,

A haunting Vintage Shrunken Head. South American, early twentieth century. Displayed at the Metamora Museum Of Oddities as an authentic shrunken head, but is more likely an excellent vintage facsimile

Dan Peoples, tribal mask, ex-museum, 19th/20th c., Ivory Coast, carved and stained wood, museum accession number and German inventory label and numbers to interior, 9"l x 5.5"w x 2.5"d Provenance: Dea

This is an exceptional quilled and beaded buffalo hide tipi possibles bag from the Sioux dating to circa 1870-1880?s from the ex-collection of B.B. Museum. There are two tags attached hand written ?Cu

(6) Ancient seals and tablets, ex-museum, Incl. (3) Babylonia tablets, Tell Jokha Sumerian (Iraq) clay tablet, Egyptian stone seal (encased in protective plastic case), and an Egyptian clay tablet, mo

Large Egyptian style heart scarab, ex-museum, Possibly ancient (c. 664-332 BCE), terracotta clay, the head and wing case sharply defined, the underside inscribed with fourteen rows of cuneiform text,

(3) ancient Egyptian faience Ushabti, ex-museum, Possibly ranging from 3rd Intermediate Period to Ptolemaic Period (1293 BCE - 30 BCE), turquoise blue glazed pottery representing servants for the afte

Pair large architectural grotesques, ex-museum, 19th c, glazed stoneware, modeled with open mouth, ball eyes, and deep folds through beard, resting on moulded rim, 42"h x 26"w x 21"d Provenance: Deacc

Large Chinese blue and white bowl, ex-museum, Ming Dynasty (14th-17th c.), blue underglazed porcelain, decorated with four cranes and flowering vines, unmarked, paper museum collection label to unders

(16) Egyptian scarabs & (1) Amulet, ex-museum, Most possibly ancient (c. 664-332 BCE), incl. plaster, porcelain, ceramic, clay, etc., one mounted with a Khnum amulet, 2.5"h x 3.5"l (largest), 0.5"l x

Bulul, also known as bul-ul or tinagtaggu, is a carved wooden figure used to guard the rice crop by the Ifugao peoples of northern Luzon. The sculptures are highly stylized representations of ancestor

(2) Ancient Egyptian faience Ushabti, ex-museum, Possibly 400-300 BCE, incl. one in blue green glaze with black pigment painted features, and one in turquoise blue glaze, each representing a figure of

J. L. Mott, zinc Molossian Hound, ex-museum, c. 1900, USA, modeled seated on hind legs starring skyward, cast by J.L. Mott Iron Works, NY, 47"h x 44"d x 25"w Provenance: Deaccessioned works benefiting

Nicely cast Roman style bronze figure, ex-museum, 19th c. or earlier, probably Naples, Cupid with goose fountainhead, after the antique at the Archaeological Museum of Naples, bronze with green-black