Large wooden shield from the Western Highlands of
PNG.Natural pigments decorating the shield in a sun design.
Used as a war shield in the Waligi valley of the Western Highlands.
H - 1.7 M
Price on request
Large wooden shield from the Western Highlands of
PNG.Natural pigments decorating the shield in a sun design.
Used as a war shield in the Waligi valley of the Western Highlands.
H - 1.7 M
Price on request
Small wooden mask.Lega culture - D.R.C
Has good well worn patina on the back indicating
extensive handling.Typical Lega features.
Comes with display stand.
H - 16CM
Price on request.
Mid to late 19th century.
Re decorated in the early part of the 20th century
with acrylic paint which at that time became fashionable to decorate household
furniture.
Med. to large size from one piece.
collected from the Jimma region.
Price on request
Mid to late 19th century decorated in a
faded red pigment.
Collected from the Jimma region.
Med to large size and unusual form.
From one piece.
Price on request
Beaded apron,Toposa southern Sudan.
34cm x 39cm
Small glass beads on goat skin.
Price on request
Beaded apron, Toposa people southern Sudan
Small beads on animal hide.Worn by the Toposa women.
72cm x 44cm.
Price on request
Iraqw - Tanzania.
Small glass beads on goats skin strips woven together to
make a skirt.Skirts like this were made during the girls initiation process
called 'Marmo'.Each skirt is its own unique creation thought to represent
amongst other things the Iraqw 'landscape'.
170cm x 70cm
Price on request
Dance mask.Kumu - D.R.C
The Kumu live south of the Ituri Rain Forest in
eastern part of the D.R.C
Used in initiation ceremonies as part of the
'Nkunda' divination society.
Kuma masks like this often show geometric patterns in white
black and red.
Price on request.
Kashekesheke divining instrument.Luba - D.R.C
Such pieces are used in ritual to comunicate with ancestors
who act as agents of memory.Used to settle disputes
and to solve problems.
Height - 5.5 inch
Price on request.
Ceremonial currency piece in figurative form.
Would have been carried and used
during ceremonies as a symbol of wealth and importance.
Iron with wooden handle wrapped with silver wire.
Late 19th century to early 20th century.
Sudan border region to D.R.C
Price on request.
Male face mask, matching one of pair to the female mask as in 16.a
Light wood and wonderful expression deplicting the character of a old man.
Makonde - Tanzania
Price on request.
Female face mask matching the male face mask as in 16a.
Character of an old women,deep facial lines and with a lip plate.
Makonde - Tanzania.
Price on request
Makonde
Makonde
Pair of Makonde medicine containers.
Calabash containers decorated with glass beads,string
and colonial coins.
Stoppers carved with male and female heads,white glass
beads used as eyes and male figure has glass beads in his month.Wonderful expressions on both heads.
Height - 24cm off their bases.Price on request
Detail of the base of the headrest as in previous photo.
SOLD
Rare form of Somali headrest.
Carved typically in a light wood,with inter locking
chain like stem.One of the rarer forms of Somali
headrest.
Height - 18cm
Price on request
SOLD
Underside of Somali headrest as in previous photo.
SOLD
Somali.
With simple form,neck rest supported with a
single stem.Decorations on the under support as
per other photo.
Price on request
SOLD
Deatil showing the fine decoarations on the sides
and base of the Somali headrest.
Somali headrest.
Typically carved in a light wood.Finely decoarted
on sides and base of the headrest.
Mid 20th century or before.
Price on request.
Collected from the Dinka of southern Sudan.
Box form with hand grips on the underneath of the
headrest to enable it to be used as a protection shield
as well as a headrest.
Price on request.
Underside of Oromo headrest as in previous photo.
Headrest collected from the Oromo region.
What makes this piece very unusual is underneath
the headrest there is a hollowed out cup with a wooden
stopped.This 'container' would have been used to
store valuable butter fat which is used to condition
the womans hair.
Price on request.
Unusual headrest with attractive decorations
and deep patina.
Ethiopia. 19th century.
Price on request
Ceremonial drum - Ethiopia.
Leather stretched over a wooden base.
Thought too come from the mid to end of the
19th century.Used in ceremonial occasions.
Price on request
Ethiopia chair of unusual form collected from the
Wolega region of Ethiopia.
Carved from one piece,Med 19th century medium size.
Price on request
Gurage - Ethiopia
Mid 19th century.Carved from one piece,
served and sat upon as a symbol of wealth by
noblemen of the Gurage people - Ethiopia.
Price on request
Chieftans or elders hat from the Iraqw people
of central western Tanzania.Worn during ceremonies
and elders meeting as a symbol of rank.Early glass beads,
metal decorations.coins and calabash 'horns' decorated
with white pigments.
Price on request
Female figure made from fired clay.More then
likely used as a fetish figure or teaching aid for the
young women during initiation schools.Collected in
Mozambique and resembles early clay figures collected
in Northern Province of South Africa ref P 196 'Art of The
Continent' H- 23cm Price on request.
Clay pot from the Nyakusa people,Lake Malawi.
Finely constructed pot,thin walls with fine decoations
running to the head for the pot.Typical of Nyakusa
pots it has a lovely rich red swirl decoration around
the brim of the vessel.
Price on request
Woven basket with nickel or silver thread.
Baskets like this were used to store milk and
butter fat.As a sign of the containers importance silver or
nickel was used to finely decorate the basket.
Arsi - Ethiopia
Price on request
Details in other photo.
Price on request
Makonde,border region [ Lindi region] Tanzania and Mozambique.
Would have been traditonally used as a form of protection piece to
protect the house and family from harmful spirits.
Height - 38cm
Price on request
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contact me as I regularly have pieces coming in that may
not have been posted.