Rare Yaka Buffalo mask Collected 1965 +Bourgeois Letter

This is a very fine and rare Kwango area Buffalo mask. Carved wooden helmet style mask with various colored kaolin clay pigments and a large raffia grass collar. Yaka or Suku peoples, Congo, Africa. *

This is a rare and fine Nkanu helmet mask, carved wood with painted designs. Nkanu (Yaka) peoples, Congo, Africa. Provenance: Field collected by Lawson Mooney C. 1965. A metal display stand can be inc

This is a rare and fine Nkanu helmet mask, carved wood with painted designs. Nkanu (Yaka) peoples, Congo, Africa. Provenance: Field collected by Lawson Mooney C. 1965, with a written authentication fr

This is a rare plant fiber mask known as "Mbawa" or the Buffalo and was used by an initiation society among the Yaka known as NKANDA. This mask is well constructed with woven fibers and rattan like st

This is a rare Teke or Tsaye "kidumu" disc shaped mask with incised designs and various mineral pigments, well handled surface edges back of mask. This mask was Field collected around 1965 by Rev. Law

A carved wooden face mask with raffia grass adornment, and wonderful exaggerated treatment to the eyes, similar to large owl eyes, possibly suggesting the ability of great sight. The mask is accented

A very rare old carved wooden post with spirit or mask face on top and painted with a red mineral pigment. Salampasu peoples, Congo, Africa. The post measures 21 inches tall. Provenance: Field collect

Malcolm X Signed Letter to His Wife, Rare Personal Content Religious Leader and Civil Rights Activist Malcolm X (1925-1965) Typed Letter Signed, “Malcolm X”, in green ink, 1p, 8.375" x 10.

A long and very fine double sided beaded sheath for a ritual staff, a long hollow tube like sheath that would hold a long iron staff. This rare and exquisite example features many ancestor style faces

A very rare carved stone idol with exaggerated features and inset cavities filled with Gold. This stone idol was reportedly excavated by a Mr Raymond Burns near Tiwanaku , Bolivia in 1915. A letter fr

Paul Stankard (USA), Botanical and Mask Weight, 2004. 5.25 x 3 x 2.5 inches tall. Glass enclosing two small masks over a large mask surrounded by moss, back side has bee, four raspberries, two yellow

1965 Mid Century Danish Modern Arne Vodder for Sibast Teak Sideboard with Rare Floating Hutch. Arne Vodder design teak credenza Model 29 for Sibast Mobler, Denmark. High quality construction and atten

A Tall carved wooden Sigi marionette mask featuring tall zig zag horms and a Mother and children with moving articulated arms controlled by strings in the mask. The mask measures 42.5 inches tall and

African Baule Goli Buffalo Mask, Ivory Coast. Carved wood. On stand. Provenance: Ex. Estate Collection Isadore and Nancy Marder, Philadelphia; purchased 1969 from Pierre Verite, Galerie Carrefour, 141

Chromo-litho Round Large Charger in Original Condition 24"Dia.

A Wonderful carved and painted wooden helmet mask from the Bamana peoples, Mali, Africa. This mask represents Sigi, the aggressive Male buffalo, who would dance alongside of the Chiwara at agricultura

Very rare Buffalo Bill vertical circus poster-banner, titled "Buffalo Bill's Wild West / Pawnee Bill's Far East" and signed "Copyright, 1910 By The U.S. Lithograph Co. Russell * Morgan / Print / Cinci

Heading: (African American, 1848) Author: Eden, Rachel [Mrs. James] Title: Autograph Letter Signed by the Wife of a Black Missionary Pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Monrovia, Liberia Place Publis

A Wonderful carved and painted wooden helmet mask from the Bamana peoples, Mali, Africa. This mask represents Sigi, the aggressive Male buffalo, who would dance alongside of the Chiwara at agricultura

Heading: (City...) Author: Title: City Hall, San-Francisco Cal. Place Published: San Francisco Publisher:Quirot & Co. Date Published: No date Description: Lithograph, on double-

On parchment. Dated and signed by the Pope in Rome on June 12, 1247, measurements 23 x 20 cm

AUTHENTIC, ORIGINAL, HALF SHEET, STROBRIDGE LITHO CO., 1908. WHILE THE ARTWORK WAS COPYWRITE 1908, THIS EXAMPLE ADDING PAWNEE BILL TITLE WAS ONLY USED IN 1909. RARE BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST COMBINED W

** 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

CHURCHILL, WINSTON SPENCER, SIR. 1874-1965. Letter Signed ('Winston S. C.'), with autograph postscript, Chartwell Manor, Westerham, Kent, September 20, 1927, 2pp., to Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, fol