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![Ivory Coast Senufo Wood Male Rhythm Pounder: Ivory Coast Senufo Wood Male Rhythm Pounder Standing & holding knife in right hand, crested coiffure. Height 44 in., Width 6.5 in., Depth 7 in. Provenance: Formerly the Property of Lynn University Gif](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1415/329115/178196620_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1717446512)
![West African Painted Mask Assortment: West African Painted Mask Assortment (8) items including a Fang Ngil mask from Gabon, a Mossi bird helmet mask from Burkina Faso, a Tetela mask having feather attachments from the Democratic Republic](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/941/332473/179332220_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1717622230)
![West African Iron Maternity Figure: West African Iron Maternity Figure The standing figure holding bowl on top of head with left hand, right hand on pregnant belly, baby on her back, with a dark brown and reddish brown patina. Height 16](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1415/329115/177915510_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1717446512)
![Bamana Ceremonial Iron Female Dance Mask, Mali: Bamana Ceremonial Iron Female Dance Mask, Mali 19th Century. almond slit eyes, elongated nose, and a closed mouth, with long pendant hair, with a red brown crusted patina, on a metal stand. Height 10](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1415/329115/177915513_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1717446512)
![West African Metal Reliquary Handle: West African Metal Reliquary Handle (5) total items including a handle having a garish face and a bronze alloy construction; together with a Tiwi Islands Aboriginal spear, a tribal snake motif cane, a](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/941/332473/179332207_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1717622230)
![IGI certified natural emerald Niger bluish green 2,93 ct: laboratory report/number: IGI 574362523species: natural berylCut: Ovalweight: 2,93 ctcolour: blue-greentransparency: transparentfeatures: natural containment patterncut: emerald cutclarity: not descri](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/8802/326102/176737493_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1714809815)
![IGI certified natural emerald Niger bluish green 5,07 ct: laboratory report/number: IGI 574362516, species: natural beryl, variety: emerald, weight: 5.07 ct, colour: blue-green, transparency: transparent, features: natural containment pattern, cut: emerald c](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/8802/326102/176737622_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1714809815)
![BENIN CEREMONIAL SWORD ADA MADE FOR THE ROYAL COURT: From the famed Reuben Reubens collection (original Bonham’s London Auction tag attached), 33 1/4" length, carved wood with a long, shaped grip and fanciful shaped blade with acutely raised false edg](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1478/330118/177982119_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715892198)
![Early Yoruba Painted Wood Gelede Mask: West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A wooden helmet mask, hand-carved from a single piece of wood, with an expressive countenance and vibrant pigments, which may have](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1103/331106/178526162_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1716590434)
![SENUFO (IVORY COAST) SPIRITUAL FIGURE: 10 ¼” height plus Plexiglas mount. Characteristic form with foreshortened legs, arms away from the sides and protruding abdomen. The head with crested coiffeur flanked by scarification wh](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1478/330118/177982503_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715892198)
![African Yoruba Painted Wood Shango Staff: West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. A ceremonial staff known as an Ose Shango featuring a Janiform head - that of the thunder god Shango - as the central element covered in](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1103/331947/179233943_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1717451666)
![Early 20th C. African Yoruba Gelede Mask: **Originally Listed At $250** West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba, ca. early 20th century CE. A fascinating wooden gelede mask of hemispherical form, enveloped in a dark, mocha-brown pigment. Gazing forth fr](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1103/330498/178217311_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1716341892)
![RARE ASHANTI SLAVER’S ARM TORQUE: Late 19th century, ex: Sir Cecil Armitage Collection. Brass, 1 ¼” width swelling to 1 ½” at the middle. Hand chiseled overall in bands and panels of stipple, line work and ba](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1478/330118/177982510_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715892198)
![PAIR OF YORUBA TWIN FIGURES, IBEJI: Male and female. 9" height, carved with the arms away from the body and the feet as a disk with the toes delineated. The heads of distinctive triangular form from which their village of origin should](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1478/330118/177982190_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715892198)
![ASHANTI WOMAN'S FIGHTING BRACELET: From the Sir Cecil Armitage Collection formed 1895-1920. About 1 7/8” inside dimension. Penannular form with both terminals, 1/3 length, decorated with impressed “eye” motifs in bands. T](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1478/330118/177982401_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715892198)
![ASHANTI WOMAN'S FIGHTING BRACELET: Early 20th century from the Sir Cecil Armitage Collection. Bronze, circular section, open form. Thick rounded section. The ends with bands of concentric circles flanked by transverse reding. About 1 7](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1478/330118/177982276_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1715892198)
![West African Carved Wood Object Assortment: West African Carved Wood Object Assortment (9) items including a Dogon female figure, a Senufo female figure having black and red paint, a Senufo palm wine cup having fire spitter cover, a Luba female](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/941/332473/179332223_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1717622230)
![Yoruba Post-Colonial Wooden Figure of a Muslim Hunter: **Originally Listed At $350** West or South Africa, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. A wooden sculpture of a soldier with a gun wearing European / Western military clothing and a conical, fez-shaped](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1103/330498/178217317_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1716341892)
News about West African Antique
![Artifacts looted during colonial period returned to Sri Lanka and Indonesia](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-06-at-12.17.21-PM-1.png)
Artifacts looted during colonial period returned to Sri Lanka and Indonesia
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Two Dutch museums have handed over hundreds of cultural artifacts back to Indonesia and Sri Lanka – from a richly decorated cannon to precious metals and jewelry – that were taken, often by force, in the colonial era. The government announced the planned restitution of 478 “cultural objects” on July […]
![At International African American Museum opening, a reclaiming of sacred ground for enslaved kin](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/130078-Ellis-Creek-Photography-IAAM-0106-Edit-1.jpg)
At International African American Museum opening, a reclaiming of sacred ground for enslaved kin
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – When the International African American Museum opened to the public June 27 in South Carolina, it became a new site of homecoming and pilgrimage for descendants of enslaved Africans whose arrival in the Western Hemisphere began on the docks of the lowcountry coast.
![Black women’s art collective celebrated at Concept Art Gallery sale, Dec. 10](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-29-at-4.01.32-PM-1.png)
Black women’s art collective celebrated at Concept Art Gallery sale, Dec. 10
PITTSBURGH – Concept Art Gallery will present a sale titled Women of Visions Benefit Auction on Saturday, December 10, beginning at 10 am Eastern time. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
![Yale hosts 50-year retrospective of Nigerian sculptor](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-18-at-2.31.46-PM.png)
Yale hosts 50-year retrospective of Nigerian sculptor
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The Yale University Art Gallery has unveiled an exhibition of sculpture by the Nigerian artist Moshood Olusomo Bamigboye (circa 1885–1975), reuniting masterworks housed in collections in the United States, Europe and Nigeria. Bamigboye: A Master Sculptor of the Yoruba Tradition, on view through January 8, 2023, presents a comprehensive examination of […]