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Benin Helmet MaskAfrican Art Benin Helmet Mask is from Nigeria. The dimension is 15.5 inches high x 7.5 inches wide. The packing and shipping cost with insurance for domestic is $65.00 flat rate shipping within the Co

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WEST AFRICAN NIGERIAN BENIN YORUBA BRONZE HELMET MASKA cast bronze Yoruba helmet mask from Benin, Nigeria, West Africa. The mask features a female head with a woven headdress and a sculptural composition with two warriors riding a donkey on top. African

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WEST AFRICA BENIN CAST BRONZE HELMET MASKA cast bronze helmet mask from Benin, Nigeria, West Africa. The mask features a decorated head with large facial features, eyes, and an open mouth. On the head are horns and a sculptural composition w

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African Carved Wood Helmet MaskAfrican Carved Wood Helmet Mask ,Benin, 20th Century. Female society ritual mask carved in the likeness of a woman's head with a bird on top of her hair. Used condition, wear, worn, splits, chips. Siz

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AFRICAN MASKFirst half 20th c., Yoruba Helmet Mask, Nigeria/Benin, a ceremonial helmet built on a gourd base, ringed with cowrie shells and bells, would be worn with a full raffia costume. 16" tall. Good conditio

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African Yoruba Bronze Ceremonial Helmet MaskAfrican Yoruba Bronze Ceremonial Helmet Mask. Possibly depicting Queen Idia, mother of Esigie, Oba of Benin who ruled from 1504 to 1515. Size: 50.5'' x 8'' x 10'' (128 x 20 x 25 cm).

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Early 20th C. Yoruban Wood Egungun Helmet Mask**Originally Listed At $250** West Africa, Nigeria & Benin, Yoruba peoples, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A strking example of a Egungun helmet mask with a round, zoomorphic face, its forehead and

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Early 20th C. Yoruba Gelede Mask, Birdcage HeadressAfrica, Nigeria or Benin, Yoruba, ca. early 20th century CE. A skillfully carved and meticulously painted Gelede helmet mask composed of two parts - the expressive mask, here an abstract male face wit

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EARLY AFRICAN MASKHelmet Mask from the Gelede Spectacle Ceremony, Yoruba Peoples, Ketu Group, Benin or Nigeria, in softwood with pigments, with knife in sheath forms, 19th c., roughly 14" tall. Minor wear, shrinkage cr

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West African brass figure on helmet style mask.A West African brass figure on helmet style mask. 20th century. In the Benin style. Nigeria. 21".

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Helmet mask "tatanua" - Papua New Guinea - Bismarcklime wood (Alstonia Scholaris), coconut husk, rattan, bark cloth, plant fibre, fabric, lime, pigments (red, black), opercula, inventory no. "87L162", rest., baseEarlier ethnologists believed that "tat

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Egyptian Ptolemaic Gilded Child Sarcophagus Helmet MaskEgypt, Ptolemaic period, ca. 332 to 30 BCE. Beautifully crafted from imported wood layered with gesso and linen, a stunning gilded mummy mask meant for a male child with a stylized, theatrical counten

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Janus-shaped helmet mask of the "troh" secret society - Cameroon Grassland, Western Bangwa, Fontemwood, thickly encrusted sacrificial patina, blackened by smoke and soot, collection no. Afrika Museum Berg en Dal "222-4", labeled "Nachtmasker Bamum" The "troh" covenant is also called the "night" or

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19th C. Asian Carved Wood Helmet Mask** A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this lot will benefit The Fowler Museum at UCLA **Asia, possibly Burma, ca. late 19th to early 20th century. Rare mask in helmet carved from a single piec

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Rare Bakongo Helmet Mask / Yombe Subgroup : PublishedExceptional three quarter helmet mask with classical Bakongo facial features. Rendered realistically with grinning face and remains of original mineral pigments. * One of only three known examples of

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Mende Helmet Mask, Sierra LeoneMende Helmet Mask, Sierra Leone soweii Wood with burnished black shiny patina Height 19in (48.2cm) Provenance Mauricio and Emilia Lasansky Collection, Iowa City Jerry Solomon Collection, Los Angeles

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Mende Wood Carved Bundu Helmet MaskMende Wood Carved Bundu Helmet Mask from Liberia, Dei region , Carved for women for the Sande society characterized by thin slit eyes, bulging forehead, delicate nose, upturned, grooved mouth, and lov

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Large helmet mask "tönköngba" - Guinea, Landumawood, greyish brown patina, kaolin, animal bristles, dome-shaped helmet in the centre, a long triangular snout protruding from the front, a pair of broad flat horns connected at their tips, larger are

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AFRICAN SIERRA LEONE SANDE SOCIETY HELMET MASKAFRICAN SIERRA LEONE SANDE SOCIETY HELMET MASK African Sande Society initiation helmet mask, Sierra Leone, 20th century. Decorated with long fiber skirt along base. Size: 15" (excluding fiber skirt)

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West African horned helmet mask, 20th century.A helmet mask with four horns. West Africa. 20th century. 16 1/2"h x 16"w x 14"d. Provenance: Inventory and Collection from the Estate of Merton D. Simpson. Catalog Notes: Simpson Inventory #6227, Pur

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Toussian Helmet maskBurkina Faso, 19", ex Princeton, NJ collection; Yale GVR #133259,an impressive fully realized sculpture with multiple projections that entertain the eye from all directions. A well used example of a r

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An Ekoi Triple-Face Helmet Mask , "detelumo"Dreigesichtige Helmmaske, "detelumo" Ekoi-Komplex. Nigeria, Cross River Mit Sockel / with base Holz, Leder. H 36 cm. Provenienz: Gérald Minkoff (1937-2009) und Muriel Olesen (1948-2020), Genf. De

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A Senufo Zoomorphic Helmet Mask, "kponyugo"Zoomorphe Helmmaske, "kponyugo" Senufo, Côte d’Ivoire Ohne Sockel / without base Holz. H 84 cm. Provenienz: - Galerie Künzi, Gottfried Künzi (1920-1979), Solothurn. - Martin Gross (192

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An Igala Helmet Mask, "epe"Helmmaske, "epe" Igala, Nigeria Mit Sockel / with base Holz, Leder, Raphia, Paternostererbsen. H 35 cm (ohne Raphia). Provenienz: - Galerie Walu, Zürich. - Andreas Vontobel (1931-2011), Waltalingen.

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