Yoruba Headdress Mask

Yoruba Egubgun Headdress/Mask- Aboriginal Indigenous Art- Once ritualware for the Yoruba people of Nigeria, Africa. The word Egungun refers to masking associated with honored male lineage ancestors. W

AFRICAN MASK/HEADDRESS WITH HORNS (YORUBA?) 15"H X 9"W X 11"D

Yoruba hand made beaded sculpture headdress helmet. A large and impressive figural art composition with opposing relief faces, and profuse bird forms encircling and surmounting a central crown. Carefu

A Very finely carved wooden helmet mask with stylized ancestor face and a very intricate open-work headdress with Swords and vessels and featuring zoomorphic designs including birds,fish, serpents and

A group of four African headdresses and masks. 20th century. ++ Bamana headdress. 21" x 12" x 5". ++ Teke style mask. 30" x 14" x 9". ++ Yoruba style beaded crown/hat. 24" x 7 1/2" x 8 1/2". ++ Yoruba

This is a very old and well used Yoruba peoples Gelded festival mask or headdress, Nigeria, Africa. This heavily weathered and field used headdress has a wonderful head full of twisted dreadlocks, and

An African Nigeria Yoruba Oro Efe Gelede mask or headdress carved wood, natural pigment depicting a human face with incised lineage marks on each cheek and atop are vibrantly painted elaborate carved

This is a very old and well used Yoruba peoples Gelede festival mask or headdress, Nigeria, Africa. This heavily weathered and field used mask has a finial representing 2 DUN DUN or Talking drums on e

A fantastic carved wooden helmet mask with elaborate and colorful designs on the open work headdress. The mask has been brightly painted and features Dancers, leopards, birds and a tall rooster, many

A group of four African masks and headdresses. 20th century. ++ Kuba style head. D.R. Congo. 20" x 14" x 13". ++ Yoruba House of the Head with cowries. Nigeria. 18" x 9" x 10". ++ Kuba style helmet Mb

A Gelede society headdress. Nigera, Yoruba. 20th century. 7"h x 8"w x 11"d. Provenance: Inventory and Collection from the Estate of Merton D. Simpson. Catalog Notes: "Masks like this are worn by men i

African Yoruba beaded ceremonial headdress, Nigeria, of conical form with geometric patterned multi-color beads, face masks to either side with protruding features, the whole adorned with birds throug

Group of three various African carved wood masks, including elaborate figural polychrome headdress, possibly of the Yoruba, Benin/Nigeria; mask of red and white coloration, possibly of Dan, Côte

A Gelede society headdress. Nigeria, Yoruba. First half 20th century. Approx. 12 1/2"h x 13"w x 13"d. Provenance: Inventory and Collection from the Estate of Merton D. Simpson. Catalog Notes: "Masks l

A very rare carved wooden mask with a highly stylized and abstract form, raised designs and undeniable well handled surface. Such masks are found among the Southern Yoruba of Ijebu, these headdresses

Western Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, ca. first half of the 20th century CE. A sizable and beautiful helmet mask, comprised of several textile swaths sewn together and reinforced along the rim, mea

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 Carved wooden helmet mask with colorful and elaborate stylized headdress, carved coiffure with hanging locks and painted red face with energetic facial expression. Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, Africa. T

YORUBA MASK, GELEDE NIGERIA carved wood and pigment, the face with incised eyes and scarification to the cheeks, a red and white chequerboard design cap beneath an elaborate headdress depicting a moto

Carved wooden helmet mask with painted features and a tall headdress of a bowl, to celebrate the hard working woman who carry the burdens of the family and village. The mask was carved from a single p

A wonderfully exaggerated old carved wooden festival dance mask with a classic face and a unusual headdress finial, that appears to be a large Book like form atop a central post. The mask shows cler f

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

**Originally Listed At $200** Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba, ca. mid 20th century CE. A hand-carved and painted Egungun headdress depicting a bearded visage with very high pointed rabbit-like ears. Egungun

**Originally Listed At $200** Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba, ca. mid 20th century CE. A hand-carved and painted Egungun headdress depicting a bearded visage with very high pointed rabbit-like ears. Egungun