Large Lobi Spirit Idol Ex William Wright Gallery 1980s

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

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 Lovely carved wooden shrine idol known as a Bateba Thil of Spirit figure often associated with protective talisman used by the Lobi peoples of Burkina Faso, West Africa. This sculpture has been cust

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 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

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 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 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

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 carved wooden female shrine effigy or Bateba Thil, an image of a spirit from a shrine, Lobi peoples, Burkina faso, West Africa. The Idol measures 7 inches tall and has an encrusted and layered surfa

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

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

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 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

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 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 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 well weathered and eroded old shrine idol featuring two faces in either direction, a encrusted surface of ritual offerings and a overall powerful and dramatic presence. Such figures are called bateb

A Bold carved wooden Idol in a wonderfully exaggerated form, weathered surface and overall signs of field use and wear. Tchamba peoples, Togo, West Africa. The Sculpture measures 21 inches tall on its

A carved wooden female effigy of a Bateba Thil, or Spirit from a Lobi shrine. The idol measures 10 x 2.5 inches. Lobi peoples, Burkina Faso, West Africa. Provenance: Ex Robert Banks collection, MD, US

A carved wooden image of an ancestral spirit, likely from an altar or shrine of the Dogon peoples, Mali, West Africa. The figure rendered in classic form has incised design work on the top of the head

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