Early 20th C. African Yoruba Dance Wand w/ Eshu Head

**Originally Listed At $200** Western Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A carved wooden figural finial for a ceremonial staff honoring Shango (also known as Jakuta), a

**First Time At Auction** West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba people, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A carved wooden divination board of a circular form and a peripheral border of incised linear, circular

African Yoruba Eshu/Elegba Dance Wand, Nigeria, 20th C. Carved wood. On Included stand. Size: 14'' x 3'' x 1.5'' (36 x 8 x 4 cm) Height on stand: 16" (41 cm).

**Originally Listed At $200** West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba, ca. early 20th century CE. A beautiful, hand-carved wooden Yoruba Ose Sango (also known as a Shango Staff or dance wand) of a traditional fo

Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba, ca. early 20th century CE. An unusual double, janus-headed wooden sceptor, finely carved with two sets of janus heads, the upper pair with and intricately carved double-pointe

West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba people, early 20th century CE. A tall iron staff with two groups of long bells spaced out along it. The staff is capped by a bird finial below an upside-down group of four

**Originally Listed At $200** Western Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A beautiful divination vessel (agere ifa), hand-carved from a hard wood, used to store the sixt

**Originally Listed At $250** West Africa, Nigeria, Ibibio, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A finely-detailed carved wooden female mask with twin spiraling plaits of hair framing her face. Full lips

**Originally Listed At $350** West Africa, Benin, Fon peoples, early 20th century CE. A hand carved, wooden male figure with a tenon, made to be held by hand during a ritual dance. The Fon people (Fon

MASK, 19" H, 10 1/2" W, 5 1/2" DEEP

**Originally Listed At $200** Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Chokwe people, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A nicely-detailed dance mask, carved from a single piece of light-brown har

**Originally Listed At $750** West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden helmet mask, featuring an anthropomorphic face with a pair of pigs standing atop with

First time at auction… West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba Culture, ca. early to mid-20th century. An ornate tunic vest made from cotton cloth and covered with thousands of glass seed beads and cowrie

West Africa, Yoruba, ca. early 20th century CE. A male "ere ibeji" figure standing with both arms at his sides, carved with an integral base and beautifully adorned with many strands of colorful beads

**Originally Listed At $500** West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba culture, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. A pair of ornate sashes made from cotton cloth and covered with thousands of glass seed beads and

This mask is worn over the head of a female elder who dances for the Sande women's society. The mask displays and celebrates Mende ideals of female beauty and virtue: elaborately braided hair (cosmeti

**Originally Listed At $200** West Africa, Yoruba peoples, ca. 19th to early 20th century CE. A fascinating piece of Afo currency in the form of an iron shovel blade with a broad cutting edge, a low e

**First Time At Auction** West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. An interesting textile shell shrine container shaped like crown known as "ile ori," which translates to

West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. A lovely hand carved wooden figural bust of a face topped by a large, hooked coiffure or headdress shaped like an axe blade. A t

West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A dark wood carving of a standing woman with an enormous rectangular crest on top of her head. A staff like this is called an Os

**Originally Listed At $300** West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. A ceremonial staff carved from wood with an axe blade-like upper portion and the body of a woman integrat

Two African Carved Yoruba Wood Doors, early 20th c., Nigeria or Benin, H.- 53 1/4 in., W.- 27 in.

Ca. late 19th to early 20thC. Seed pot rattle Luba style w/four heads, Democratic Republic of Congo. Age-appropriate condition throughout, with no major condition issues of note. Ex-Nooter coll.

African Tribal Art: Yoruba People, Nigeria: Large Covered Ceremonial Bowl w/5 Female Figures, Early/Mid 20th Century. Carved wood, paint. 37.5H x 16W x 16.5D (inches). Private Collection, Massachusett