Ex~ SMA Museum Igbo Ekpeye Figurative headdress

A Very rare old carved wooden head dress sculpture from the Igbo Ekpeye peoples of Nigeria, Africa. The sculpture has ornate painted form and design. Loss to both arms, long ago. The sculpture has bee

A Tall carved wooden mask or headdress, with elaborate carved details and some openwork design featuring several anthropomorphic, kaolin clay pigments and raised carved motifs. Igbo peoples, Nigeria,

A Very Old Carved wooden shrine idol with highly stylized facial features that mimic the fire spitter masks. Senufo peoples, Ivory Coast, Africa. This idol was previously in the SMA Fathers Museum of

A unusual terracotta vessel embellished with twisted rope like designs. Bamana peoples, Mali, West Africa. The vessel measures 9 inches tall x 4.75 inches wide and deep. Provenance: Ex SMA Museum of A

A group of three Nigerian Style Objects. Includes Nigerian style mask, West African style figure, and Igbo figurative headdress. Wood. Nigeria. Smallest: 10 1/2" x 4". Largest: 19 1/4" x 8". Condition

African carved tribal mask, ex-museum, Possibly Igbo/Ibo Peoples, carved and stained wood with pigment, museum accession number to interior, 12.25"l x 6.25"w x 4"d Provenance: Deaccessioned works bene

A carved wooden head piece with paddle like form decorated with openwork design and has remains of mineral pigments throughout. Igbo peoples, Nigeria, Africa. The Headdress measures 9.5 inches tall. P

Ibo (Igbo) Peoples, carved monkey mask, ex-museum, Nigeria, carved and stained wood with red and white pigment, museum name and accession number to interior, 10"h x 6.5"w x 3.5"d Provenance: Deaccessi

Igbo People, Ibo Mwa mask, ex-museum, 20th c., Nigeria, light and dark stained carved wood, white pigment, the oval face with finely articulated features and coiffure, 9.5"h x 5"w Provenance: Deaccess

Igbo People, "Agbogho Mmwo" spirit mask, ex-museum, 20th c., Nigeria, dark stained carved wood, white pigment, with carved horns and ornamental facial tattoos, 13"h x 7"w x 5"d Provenance: Deaccession

A carved wooden helmet style mask with traditional face and stylized headdress. Created for the Gelede spectacle, Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, Africa. The mask measures 10 x 12 inches. A metal display sta

A rare and haunting carved wooden idol from a Brujos shrine, with an unusual headdress. Such idols are known to have been used by sorcerers in witchcraft and ritual. This idol measures 10 inches tall

Carved wood , painted with kaolin clay pigments. Ewe shrine Figure, Ghana/ Togo, West Africa. Exhibited SMA Museum of African Art in 2012. Provenance: Ex Collection Dr Noble & Jean Endicott, NYC. The

Ancient Egyptian bronze Isis and Horus, ex-museum, Probably c. 1070-343 BCE, natural green and brown patina, depicting the seated goddess nursing her infant son Horus, wearing the headdress of Hathor,

Pre-Columbian Blue Jade Shaman Axe God Pendant, Avian Features, Ceremonial Half Back, Perched Bird Headdress, Hole Drilled for Suspension, Provenance:Woram Collection, Ex-Peabody Museum 1967, Dimensio

Pair of Bambara Antelope blackened wood headdress, (Chi Wara). One male, one female, . Dimensions (overall): male 45"h, female 36"h. Ex Crocker Art Museum

The lot features a split horn ermine hide war bonnet attributed to the Crow and said to be from the ex-collection of the Dakota Frontier Museum display in Mitchell, South Dakota. The headdress or war

Pre-Columbian head fragments. Lot of 2. Terracotta heads with great detail, including headdress, nose and spool earrings. Museum quality display stands included. Provenance: Ex. Private collection, Qu

A Carved wooden headdress featuring a stylized ancestor with tall swept back horns and facial scar designs and basketry type mount for wearing. Igbo or related group, Cross River region, Nigeria, Afri

Pre-Columbian, southeastern Mexico, Chontal, ca. 800 to 300 BCE. Huge greenstone standing "blind" figure showing very strong Olmec chacteristics, but clearly Chontal from the Guerrero region. He stand

Chinese School, ancestral portrait, ex Museum, Ming Dynasty (17th c.), Official's Wife, colors on silk mounted to paper, depicted in robes decorated with leaf design, and elaborately embellished sash,

A haunting Vintage Shrunken Head. South American, early twentieth century. Displayed at the Metamora Museum Of Oddities as an authentic shrunken head, but is more likely an excellent vintage facsimile

Bulul, also known as bul-ul or tinagtaggu, is a carved wooden figure used to guard the rice crop by the Ifugao peoples of northern Luzon. The sculptures are highly stylized representations of ancestor

A Tall carved wooden conical shaped mask or headdress, with elaborate carved details and some openwork design, kaolin clay pigments and remains of woven textiles that were part of the costume worn by