A Fine Fanti Comb EX Stewart Warkow Collection

An elegant and finely carved wooden comb with ornate and elaborate carved designs. Fanti peoples, Ghana, Africa. The Comb measures 9.25 inches tall ( 12 inches tall on professional custom display stan

A very finely carved and incised womans comb with ornate design and signs of use. The Comb measures 9.75 inches tall. Ashanti peoples, Ghana, Africa. Provenance:Ex Stewart Warkow collection, NY; Ex NJ

Elongated carved wooden dance mask with incised linear designs, and covered in hammered bronze sheet, embellished with textile adornment. Marka / malinke peoples, Mali, Africa. The mask measures 16.5

A fascinating festival helmet mask with zoomorphic figures on top of a plank structure on top of the festival mask, painted in bright colors and showing signs of field use and wear. Yoruba peoples, Ni

A carved wooden and painted panel featuring a mask of the Kifwebe society, perhaps a totem of the society for a shrine wall or meeting house. The carved circular panel measures 9.5 x 9 inches. Songye

A carved wooden mask with kaolin clay pigment and a wonderfully exaggerated form. Such masks are quite rare and were danced opposite of Luba Animal masks. Provenance: Ex Stewart Warkow collection, NYC

A very finely carved wooden cylindrical doll with traditional flat form , incised geometric designs and a well handled surface. The doll measures 14.5 x 3 inches. Fanti peoples, Ghana, West Africa. Pr

A very finely carved wooden comb with stylized mask like anthropomorphic face and some linear designs with a deep well handled surface patina. Ashanti / Akan peoples, Ghana, Africa. The Comb measures

A fine carved Anthropomorphic wooden comb likely field collected by Thomas McNemar in the late 1950's and early 1960s. The comb measures 6.25 inches tall. Provenance: Ex Prof. Charles Bordogna Collect

A classic carved wooden fertility doll or idol with enlarged flat head and simplistic form, well handled and weathered surface suggesting field use and wear. Ashanti peoples, Ghana, Africa. The sculpt

A fine and charming old carved wooden shrine effigy with classic facial features and shown with hands in a gesture of offering. There are a few areas on linear scar designs and a open cavity in the ch

Ancient Eastern Roman Silver Comb Ca.1st to 3rd Century AD. Size 3 1/8 x 1 3/4 inches. Fine silver comb with glass beads in the center. Provenance: Ex Private NYC Collection acquired From Bonhams Lond

A Tall carved wooden dance mask with female effigy as top finial, embellished with various grass, seed, old glass beads and shell regalia and painted with organic pigments , apparent sweating surface

A carved wooden dance mask in the form of an antelope with carved designs and tribal motifs accented with mineral pigments. Bwa peoples, Burkina Faso, West Africa. The Mask measure 20 inches tall. *Th

A Tall carved wooden dance mask with female effigy as top finial, embellished with various grass, seed, old glass beads and shell regalia and painted with organic pigments , apparent sweating surface

A Tall carved wooden male dance mask with incised and painted linear designs, classic carving style with highly exaggerated facial features, attached woven rope netting and beard, obvious handling and

A carved and painted wooden effigy of a Hanged Man, accented with kaloin clay pigments. Figures carved in this manner represent individuals who were hanged for violating the public order and transgres

A diminutive carved wooden mask with weathered and encrusted surface indicating ritual use. Such a mask was not worn, it was used as a medium to the spirit world and was kept in a ceremonial container

A finely carved wooden helmet style mask with realistic facial features and overall well handled surface patina. Makonde peoples, Tanzania and Mozambique, Africa. Provenance: - Ex. Stewart Warkow coll

A very well handled wooden maskette with a deep patina from years of handling and wear. The mask was painted black and features a well carved coiffure and squared off beard, classic facial features. T

Nazca bowl, ca. 200 -400 A.D., Peru. The bowl is thinned walled, with a band of birds on exterior. Dimensions: 6" dia.; Weight: 6.4 oz. Provenance: Ex. Stewart collection, NY

A carved wooden double or twin Fanti doll decorated with incised linear designs accented with kaolin clay pigment and embellished with old glass beads, Ghana, West Africa. The sculpture measures 14 x

This lot contains three large hand carved wooden Combs from the Ashanti peoples, each with stylized Akua'ba or fertility doll as the top finial handle. The largest comb measures 21 x 6.5 x 2 inches. T

This lot contains two carved wooden Combs with ancestor Akua'ba doll faces as the handle and have been custom mounted. The Combs measure 10 x 3 x 2 inches. Ashanti peoples, Ghana, Africa. Provenance: