A Janus Bamun Fly Whisk Ex Noble Endicott

A tall slender carved wooden handle featuring janus mask like faces , well handled surface and animal hide whisk. The Fly Whisk measures 24 inches long ( 26.5 inches tall on professional custom displa

A finely carved wooden handle featuring an Eshu image, embellished with rattan basketry grip, woven fiber handle and long animal hide strips as the whisk. The entire piece on stand measures 28 inches

Rare style of Bamun royal Flywhisk, human hair, old beads, brass covered face, Bamun or Bamileke peoples, Cameroon, West Africa. Provenance: Ex Celesten collection, New York.

A fine late 19th century short sword with carved wooden handle featuring the Spider motif often associated with the Royal family line. The Sword of forged iron and Copper wire wrapped handle and old b

A carved wooden male effigy with hands in prayer like pose and classic facial style and form. Bamun or Bamileke peoples, Cameroon Grasslands, Africa. The sculpture measures 11.5 inches tall. Provenanc

A Primitive and archaic carved wooden dance crest with stylized spikey coiffure and classic facial features, weathered and worn surface suggests great age. Mambila peoples, Nigeria, Africa. Provenance

A Very rare carved wooden diminutive mask with a painted black surface and signs of age and handling over many years. Masks are generally considered rare from the Hemba , though many monkey masks exis

Carved from a hard dense wood and featuring a highly stylized form, perhaps that of a child with traditional scar designs on the face and a well handled surface patina. Makonde peoples, Tanzania, East

A very rare old and worn Vodun ceremonial staff featuring a hand clutching an Offering or possibly a scroll. The life like hand is rendered from a single piece of wood. The Staff measures 19.5 inches

A rare antique carved wood and animal hide fly whisk adorned with old glass beads and featuring a carved wooden female effigy as a handle. Luguru or related ethnic group, Tanzania, Africa. The Fly Whi

A carved wood shrine idol with hands to face in a traditional pose, a deep weathered surface with time worn smooth facial features and remains of legs. The Idol appears to be 19th century and measures

A small carved wooden mask painted in Black and white kaolin clay pigments, with stylized coiffure , incised design as well as a retractable lower jaw. Such masks are rather small to be worn on the fa

A Rare Old Igbo Okwanazu Chalk dish with elaborate ancestor head finial on handle. According to the Igbo traditions white lime or chalk powder is a special symbol of purity, health, beauty, morality a

A long carved wooden avian form flute with mask like face, traditional style and deep well handled surface patina. Bobo peoples, Burkina Faso, West Africa. The flute measures 24 inches tall on its cus

A carved wooden mask with large ocular orbits accented with remains of white kaolin clay pigment; small wedge-shaped nose, high brow with classical scarification. Ngbaka or NGbandi peoples, DRC/ Congo

A diminutive carved wooden mask painted silver and black , with a highly stylized zoomorphic form of a goat or ram. The mask overall showing many years of traditional ceremonial use and wear. The mask

This is a rare ancient terracotta head which would have commemorated a member of a royal family who lived in what is now south central Ghana. Such sculptures, viewed as substitutes for the deceased, w

A very Fine carved wooden female Mvunzi Cult idol, with serene facial features, classic form, showing her hands to the chest and large oval eyes. Holo peoples , DRC/ Congo / Angola Border region, Afri

A highly stylized zoomorphic clay pipe bowl with large ears, protruding face, scalloped pipe bowl. Cameroonian men and women smoked after meals and at ritual events, but only the elite used such elabo

A tall slender wooden sculpture with a wonderful stylized form and encrusted surface suggesting offerings over many years. Known as a Bateba Ti Bala, this female effigy is shown with the child riding

A carved wooden circular form with copper decorations. Such large "bracelets" were used as an archers bow guard according to literature. This example features a well worn smooth, deep patina from hand

A Finely carved wooden female sculpture with tall coiffure, large hands and feet and round bosom and a deep well handled surface patina. Senufo peoples, Ivory Coast, West Africa. The Statue measures 7

Carved wooden fragment of a stool featuring two ancestors as the main supports as well as a nicely carved seat. The Stool has lost its base some time agi and has been professionally custom mounted to

A charming carved wooden Anthropomorphic handle with remains of reptile skin on the bottom where the whisk was once attached. Well worn showing obvious age and field use. Makonde peoples, Mozambique,