Old Yoruba Wooden Drum with Faces & Designs African Art

A Finely carved tall wooden drum with animal skin drum head and wooden spikes inserted around the drum head perimeter. The mask is highly decorated with faces and geometric designs, and overall shows

A Very finely carved and heavy old wooden drum with four ancestor faces and obvious use and handling over many many years. What remains is stable, though the drum has lost most of its tuning pegs. Yor

A carved wooden mask featuring traditional style face with long front locks, painted designs and obvious handling and wear. Old nails in the back suggest the mask was attached to a costume at some poi

Old carved wooden Panel / mask from the Luba of the Congo, central Africa. A classic Luba Kifwebe society panel with mask face, linear designs and kaolin clay painted surface. Measures 11 x 7 inches.

A carved wooden dance crest of an ancestral face with incised scar designs and a wonderfully exaggerated face, raised brow and bulbous form. The headdress appears to be quite old with plenty of handli

A carved wooden mask with painted red face and green and yellow ceremonial cap. The mask has traditional facial features and signs of field use and wear. Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, Africa. The mask meas

A finely carved wooden staff featuring two ancestor faces and incised designs on a criss cross shaped handle. Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, Africa. Measures 10.5 inches tall on simple metal display stand.C

A Very rare, old and interesting wooden mask from the Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, Africa. Carved wooden helmet style mask with a smiling face and open headdress and painted green face. The top of the mas

This is a very rare and unusual old sculpture from the Dan peoples, Cote D'Ivoire, West Africa. Carved wooden image of two mask faces with ornate design and has an obviously well handled patina. The s

A carved wooden cylindrical wooden drum with stretched Goat hide skin membrane and wooden pages driven into the side to hold the drum head. The Drum Body is decorated with ornate linear designs and 8

A Carved wooden dance mask with apparent field use and wear, painted linear designs and signs of handling and wear. Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, Africa. The mask measures 17 x 11 inches. A durable mask di

This is a very old and field used tribal drum with raised designs, carved wooden pegs with mask faces and obvious age and use over many years. The Drum measures 22 x 16 inches ( the drum head is 11 in

A Carved wooden face mask with stylized face, classic upturned nose and some geometric designs painted on with organic pigments. The mask shows actual field use and wear and is an antique example. Yak

A finely carved wooden face mask with diminutive ears, open eyes as well as spot designs, all accented with kaolin clay pigment, and a well handled patina. Lega peoples, Congo, Africa. The mask measur

Old carved wooden hand drum from the Kuba peoples of the DRC / Congo, central Africa. The drum has some wonderful raised linear tribal designs and an ornate handle with ancestor face and Hand motif. T

A carved wooden tray with ornate incised and raised designs and the faces of Eshu on top and bottom. An opon Ifá is a divination tray used in traditional Yoruba ritual. The etymology of opon, literal

This is a nice older carved wooden drum with a animal hide stretched and pinned over the top as a drum skin , decorated with 4 mask faces and some carved design on the base. The drum appears quite wea

A carved wooden mask with incised linear designs, kaolin clay painted face and wonderful stylized form. Lega peoples, Bwami society, Congo, Africa. The mask measures 9 x 7 inches.

This is a very rare style of Wooden mask from the Tiv peoples of Nigeria Africa.Carved wood face mask with incised linear designs , tribal tattoos and some obvious age and wear. I do not see masks fro

A wonderful Vintage woven rattan basket with carved wooden stopper lid in the form of an ancestral face, with incised facial designs. Mumuye peoples, Nigeria, Africa. The basket with lid measures 27 i

This is a very tall and unusual carved wooden marker post with four strong mask like faces , cowrie shells and sacrificial matter, accented with linear designs. Bobo peoples, Burkina faso, West Africa

An old carved wooden ceremonial mask with thick encrusted surface painted with organic pigments, accenting incised scar designs and raised scars on the face. Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, West Africa. This

A Finely carved wooden milk bowl with a wonderful stylized face on the sides and old tribal repairs and pour spout. The vessel feels well used and appears to have generations of field use. Shi peoples

A rare old wooden face mask of a Skull like face, known as "Hell dwelling spirit" with obvious age and wear. Ibibio peoples, Nigeria, Africa. The Mask measures 12.75 x 8 inches. A durable display stan