A Igbo Maiden mask Ex William Wright Gallery 1980s

A carved wooden helmet mask with elaborate coiffure and finial with two leopards, spiral designs and classic painted white face with raised scars. Maiden masks are representations of adolescent female

Fine and very Old Bobo helmet mask, carved wood with painted designs, overall fantastic style, tribal repairs and obvious signs of field use and wear. Bobo peoples, Burkina Faso, West Africa. The mask

A carved wooden ceremonial mask with incised linear designs accented with black, white and red kaolin clay pigments. This Zoomorphic mask represents a stylized monkey. Bwa peoples, Burkina faso, West

A very rare carved wooden 3/4 helmet mask with incised linear designs, open work eyes, and contrasting red and white kaolin clay pigments decorating the mask. This genre of helmet mask, known as bolo

A very rare carved wooden 3/4 helmet mask with incised linear designs, open work eyes, and contrasting red and white kaolin clay pigments decorating the mask. This genre of helmet mask, known as bolo

A Carved wooden helmet style mask with bold painted and incised designs and featuring a stylized Duck or avian form. Nuna or related ethnic group, Burkina Faso, West Africa. The mask measures 16 x 7 i

A Tall carved wooden shrine idol known as a Bateba Thil, or Spirit. Carved from a dense heavy wood with a mellow golden honey colored surface and signs of field use and wear. Lobi peoples, Burkina Fas

A carved wooden female effigy in abstract style with a highly stylized face and overall form. Mossi peoples, Burkina Faso, West Africa. Provenance: Ex William Wright Gallery, New York, 1980s, also Eug

Carved wooden headdress of a smoking male with colorful painted areas and a well handled surface. Attached to woven textile support and strap for wearing. The mask / dance crest measures 17.5 x 10 inc

Carved from an incredibly heavy dense wood with encrusted surface suggesting years of sacrificial offerings as a bateba Thil or Spirit effigy on a fertility shrine. Lobi peoples, Burkina Faso, West Af

A carved wooden dance mask with raised linear designs and tall carved horns, well handled surface. Masks of this type are used in masquerades performed at festivals to honor Urhobo water spirits that

A very rare and important large scale shrine sculpture of a Mother and her children, shown seated with infant feeding on her lap as well as two other figures on either side of the mother figure. The s

A very energetically carved wooden crest with two faces, accented with kaolin clay pigments, raised linear designs, stylized coiffure. Traditionally this female dance crest was danced opposite of aggr

Ashanti Shrine terracotta, shown in a kneeling position with head to the heavens and tongue out holding a small stool in one hand, perhaps a portrait of religious ecstasy. Ashanti peoples, Ghana, Afri

A finely carved wooden headdress with zoomorphic forms entwined with a openwork form, on conical base to be worn as a headdress. The headdress has been painted with kaolin clay and laundry blue pigmen

A very old field used stool 19th century? The wood has been worn and weathered over generations. The stool measures 17 x 5.5 x 3.5 inches tall. Lobi peoples, Burkina Faso, West Africa. Provenance: The

A carved wooden ceremonial dance crest with painted and incised designs, stylized ancestor face and well handled surface. Mossi peoples, Burkina Faso, West Africa. The Dance cap or crest measures 8.25

A very old field used stool 18/19th century? The wood has been worn and weathered over generations. The stool measures 18.5 x 5 x 2.5 inches tall. Lobi peoples, Burkina Faso, West Africa. Provenance:

A carved wooden ceremonial mask with deep well handled surface patina and wonderful life like treatment to the face and heavy lidded eyes. Nyamwezi peoples, Tanzania, Africa. The mask measures 15 x 8

A finely carved wooden Baule dance mask with tall ears and some minor tribal repairs with staples. Baule peiples, Ivory Coast, Africa. Provenance: ex. McConnell Collection, VA, Ex. Gallerie Lippell, M

A carved wooden ceremonial mask with 3 faces and accented with kaolin clay pigments, and adorned with raffia grass. Lengola peoples, DRC/ Congo, central Africa. The mask measures 11.5 x 8.5 inches. Pr

Mid-20th C., together with a carved decorative mask on woven circular base, 2 pieces total Igbo mask: 13"l Provenance: Igbo mask from Gotham Gallery; Ex Collection Paul Barvinchak, Binghamton, NY

**First Time At Auction** Western Africa, Nigeria, Igbo peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden maiden spirit mask with a finely-detailed face comprised of almond-shaped eyes, a slend

Africa, Nigeria, Igbo, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A striking maiden spirit mask is finely carved with a visage intended to represent the ideal of female beauty, with dramatic facial featu