YORUBA PEOPLES FIGURAL OLUMEYE OFFERING BOWL

West African carved wood "Olumeye" (offering bowl), Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, kneeling maternity figure with elaborate headdress, two small children at her arms, a third child surmounting the lid of an

Elegant carved wooden female figure shown kneeling with offering bowl, richly decorated with incised designs. Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, Africa. Measures 18 inches tall.

Elegant carved wooden female figure shown kneeling with offering bowl, richly decorated with incised designs. Known as a "Olumeye". Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, Africa. Measures 18 inches tall.

A Fine YORUBA "OLUMEYE" offering bowl, featuring an elegant carved wooden female figure shown kneeling with offering bowl, richly decorated with incised designs. Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, Africa. Measu

Two Hemba Stools. Hemba or Eastern Luba people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa. Two carved wood stools. Together with a Yoruba figural offering bowl; Olumeye carved wooden bowl

A lovely and refined old wooden sculpture from the Yoruba peoples of Nigeria, West Africa. Measures 14 7/8 inches tall x 6 inches front to back.Yoruba sculptors carved a variety of wooden containers t

Carved from a dense heavy wood, this elegant female figure is shown kneeling with offering bowl, richly decorated with incised designs. Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, Africa. Measures 18 inches tall.

Elegant carved wooden female figure shown kneeling with offering bowl, richly decorated with painted designs. Known as a "Olumeye". Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, Africa. The sculpture measures 13 inches ta

Elegant carved wooden female figure shown kneeling with offering bowl, richly decorated with painted designs. Known as a "Olumeye". Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, Africa. The sculpture measures 13 inches ta

A Fine YORUBA "OLUMEYE" offering bowl, featuring an elegant carved wooden female figure shown kneeling with offering bowl and small child on her back, richly decorated with incised designs. Yoruba peo

Two African carved wood maternity figures; Yoruba, Nigeria olumeye (offering bowl figure); together with Chokwe, Angola/Democratic Republic of the Congo/Zambia seated with child in lap, wearin

AN AFRICAN TRIBAL CARVED WOOD FIGURAL OFFERINGS BOWL, POSSIBLY DOGON PEOPLES, MALI, MID 20TH CENTURY, with a male figure wearing a beaded dome headdress above a wide eyed expressive face, on a thick n

A Finely carved wooden female with offering bodl effigy , featuring elaborate incised and raised design and traditional style. Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, Africa. The figure measures 14 inches tall x 10

early 20th century; the first a standing female figure with offering bowl (18 in.) (loss to base); and the second and third are finger drums supported by kneeling female figures holding offerings (20

Collection vintage African artifacts, (9) pieces, some possibly antique, includes Yoruba Twin figures, a Bamileke peoples, Cameroon, terra cotta offering bowl, 8"h x 7"dia; a thumb piano, 10"l x 4.5"w

This is a fantastic vintage sculpture from the Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, Africa. Carved wooden image of a kneeling female devotee with offering bowl and burden bowl on her head. The Yoruba celebrate th

Hand carved wooden shrine figure, Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, depicting a seated female with scarification and earrings holding an offering bowl on her lap, being carried on a litter by attendants, 18.75

A Carved wooden offering bowl with female effigy, painted with several layers of organic pigments. Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, Africa. The Bowl Measures 17 x 9 inches. Provenance: A Private Oregon Collec

Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden offering bowl, perhaps a kola nut container, in the form of a bunny, from the Yoruba people of Nigeria, adorned wi

A finely carved female effigy with 3 children , elaborate raisd designs , heavy indigo and mineral pigments and signs of field use. Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, Africa. This superb carved wooden figure of

African Tribal Art: Yoruba People, Nigeria: Shrine Figure Depicting a Mother kneeling and holding forth a covered bowl, offering its edible contents to worshipers. Early 20th Century. The figure has a

A monumental and ancient carved wooden Offering shrine or bowl featuring a female Figure, Yoruba peoples, Igbomina region, Nigeria, Late 19th to mid-20th century, Wood, paint.This is a bowl carrier or

Bronze figural Gelede style spirit mask, Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, mid 20th century, having an offertory bowl surmounting three female figures, resting on the curved oval mask, the inside crown of the

20th century; the first a Bangwa memorial figure (22 in.); the second a Yoruba maternity figure with offering bowl (26.5 in.) (loss to one breast, several stable cracks, some loss to verso of figure);