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Technique: Hand-Crafted
Early Pende Giwoyo Mask with Strong Face and Woven Black Raffia Hair Cap
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Old Pende giwoyo mask with traces of pigments, black and red and woven black raffia hair cap. Strong face with tight expression, weathered surface, good age. ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Congolese Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Organic Material, Wood
Old Pende giwoyo Red Mask with Beard and Woven Raffia Hair Cap Congo Africa
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Old Pende giwoyo mask with red pigments, black and white beard with carved triangles and woven black raffia hair cap
The mask is 13 1/4 inches high, on custom...
Category
Mid-20th Century Congolese Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Organic Material, Wood
Pre Columbian Rare Lambayeque Wood Figure
Located in London, GB
Pre columbian Lamabayeque wood figure Peru Circa 750 to 1375 AD
A rare standing figure of a deity with triangular tear drop shaped eyes holding a child,
Carved in very dense heavy hard wood
Measures: Height 14 inches, 36 cm weight, 1.5 kg approx
Ex collection of a Oxford Academic, reputed to have came from Pit rivers...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Peruvian Antique Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Indian Tribe Kayapo Headdress
Located in Paris, FR
Headdress Indian Tribe Kayapo under frame made of Blue Macaw,
Blue-fronted Amazon, Rosablin, Triton and Alba cacaotès, Alexander
parakeet, Demoiselle and Crowned crane, Chinese red rooster and
Blue peacock. With Lapis lazulli...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Glass, Wood, Feathers
Indonesian 'Wayang Golek" Shadow Puppet, Java, Indonesia, Early 20th Century
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
This “Wayang Golek” is a visibly old shadow puppet carved using soft wood and cloth. It features an articulated head and arms connected to rods, the dress...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Wood, Fabric
19th Century African Wood and Leather Chair
Located in Rochester, NY
19th century African hand carved wood chair w/ leather goatskin hide woven webbing in original as found antique condition with no restorations. ...
Category
Late 19th Century Ethiopian Antique Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Goatskin, Wood, Hide, Leather
Mid-Century Navajo Silversmith T. K. Turquoise and Silver Brooch
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Mid-century Navajo silversmith T. K. Turquoise and silver brooch
A large gorgeous old turquoise stone set in an almost heart-shaped broo...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Silver
Mud Cloth 'Bogolanfini', Mali, Bamana People, Mid-20th Century
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A mud cloth (Bogolanfini),
Mali, Bamana People
mid-20th century.
Hand woven 'discharge dyed' cotton
Approximately 71 x 52 in. (180cm. x 132cm.)
A dazzling geometric pattern...
Category
Mid-20th Century Malian Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Fabric
Turkish Mekhann Iktat Pillows a Pair
Located in Malibu, CA
Mekhann Iktat Lombard Pillow Pair from Turkey made of imported silk with feather down insert.
Mekhann was established in 2012 to bring a contemporary outlook to a tradition Turkish t...
Category
Late 20th Century Turkish Islamic Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Silk
Standing Female Pende Wood Figure with Arms at Sides Cascading Hair Congo
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Rare carved wood standing female Pende figure with arms at sides cascading hair. Classic downturned Pende style face, feet absent. Democratic Republic of Congo, early to mid-20th ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Congolese Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Wood, Organic Material
Early Papua New Guinea Sepik Light Wood Yam Mask Elegant Flame Shaped Form
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Early Papua New Guinea Sepik light wood yam mask. Elegant flame shaped form, old, oxidized wood with black accents, traces of yellow and white pigments. Small...
Category
Mid-20th Century Papua New Guinean Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Organic Material, Wood
Indonesian 'Wayang Kulit" Shadow Puppet, Java, Indonesia, Early 20th Century
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
This flat shadow puppet was crafted on the island of Java by a puppet artist using buffalo hide and mounted on bamboo sticks. It features movable arms, controlled by outer bamboo rods. It was used in Wayang...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Leather, Wood
Antique Hill Tribe Silver Spiral Cuff Bracelet, Hand-Engraved, Thailand, c. 1900
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
This unique tribal cuff bracelet originates from the Karen Hill Tribe of Northern Thailand via tribal silversmith techniques that have been handed...
Category
Early 20th Century Thai Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Silver
Kayapo Style Artwork Headdress
Located in Paris, FR
Kayapo Style Artwork Headdress under frame made with blue
Macaw feathers, and other south american bird feathers.
Delivered with cites.
“Moult Feather Headdress” original and uniqu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Feathers
Biwat People Ancestral Mask Papua New Guinea, Circa 1980
Located in Rochester, NY
Biwat people mask from the Yuat river region middle Sepik river Papua New Guinea in nicely aged original rich surface color patina to wood, shells and natural fibers. Circa 1980. Loo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Papua New Guinean Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Shell, Wood, Natural Fiber
Early Papua New Guinea Painted Maprik Wood Mask Long Tongue Ex M. Hamson
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Early Papua New Guinea painted Maprik carved wood mask with long curved tongue. Mid-20th century, ex Michael Hamson, CA with label on back. Classic Maprik colors with faded polychrom...
Category
Mid-20th Century Papua New Guinean Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Organic Material, Wood
Antic Yak Milk Jar with Handle North Népal Santal Tribe Hand Crafted Hard Wood
Located in Miami, FL
Large wood Nepal Yak Milk Jar hand crafted with geometric patterns covering the
Body of the pot.
2 wholes around the top of the hedge where a rope went thr...
Category
Early 20th Century Nepalese Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Baule Lost Wax Cast Bronze Circular Discs Butterfly Ivory Coast Africa Based
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Circular Lost Wax Cast Bronze Discs or pendants, one with beautiful butterfly in low relief. The other has abstract design, both have finely modeled rings as background to the design...
Category
Early 20th Century Ivorian Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Bronze
Akan Ceremonial Brass Bronze Lidded Container with Figures Ghana Africa
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Fine repousse and cut sheet brass or bronze lidded treasure box from the Akan people of Ghana, West Africa, 20th century. Images include human figures, sandals, swords, and animals. ...
Category
Early 20th Century Ghanaian Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Brass
Rare to Find Folk Art Jaguar Mask Found in Zitlala, Guerrero, Mid-20th Century
By G. None
Located in Guadalajra, Jal
This style of Tigre (Mexican colloquial for Jaguar) mask is from Zitlala, Guerrero, they are used on the feast day of the Holy Cross on May 3rd, 4th,
and 5th. As part of the activit...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Folk Art Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Leather
Indonesian 'Wayang Kulit" Shadow Puppet, Java, Indonesia, Early 20th Century
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
This flat shadow puppet was crafted on the island of Java by a puppet artist using buffalo hide and mounted on bamboo sticks. It was used in Wayang puppet...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Leather, Wood
Conical Hat Mornington Island, Queensland Australia Woven Fiber on Stand
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Early to mid-20th century woven fiber and palm leaf conical hat with two vertical painted stripes on the front, from Mornigton Island, Queensland, Austral...
Category
Mid-20th Century Australian Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Organic Material
Early 20th Century Fine Cast White Metal Bracelet Classic Sculpture Form
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Late 19th to early 20th century cast mixed white and brass metal bracelet from the East Africa, possibly connected to the Arab states. Beautiful cast geometric design around outside ...
Category
Early 20th Century Zambian Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Bronze
Traditional Silver Torque Necklace Chocker from Rajasthan India
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Traditional torque or Hansuli silvered necklace choker from Lambadi or Banjara and Sugali People, Andhra Pradesh, India.t India, circa 1940.
Fabulous vi...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Folk Art Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Metal, Silver Plate
Antique Asian Karen Hill Tribe Fine Enamel Silver Pipe Collectible Pipes
Located in London, GB
Fine Antique Asian Karen Hill tribe Fine Enamel Silver pipe.
Molded decorated terracotta bowl with heavy worked silver and enamel stem
rare to find in original condition
Burma / M...
Category
Early 20th Century Burmese Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Silver
20th Century Tribal Bamboo Comb, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Mid to late 20th century incised bamboo comb, Huon Gulf, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea
This large incised comb is typical of the bamboo combs of the Huon Gulf area. This parti...
Category
Late 20th Century Papua New Guinean Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Bamboo
Mid-20th Century Antoñio Pineda Silver and Moonstone Brooch, Taxco, Mexico
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Mid-20th Century Antoñio Pineda (1919-2009) Silver and Moonstone Brooch, Taxco, Mexico
This beautifully crafted silver brooch contains eight oval-cut moonstone cabochons set in a curved row above six stylized leaves. The marks on the back of the pin are: TAXCO SILVER BY TONO, Made in Mexico, with a 17 eagle stamp...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Modern Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Silver
Indigo African Asian Bohemian Embroidery Tapestry Elephants Horses Kings
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Beautiful wall art, wall hanging, tattered and very old, origin unknown.
Category
19th Century Unknown Folk Art Antique Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Fabric
Indonesian 'Wayang Kulit" Shadow Puppet, Java, Indonesia, Early 20th Century
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
This flat shadow puppet was crafted on the island of Java by a puppet artist using buffalo hide and mounted on bamboo sticks. It features movable arms, controlled by outer bamboo rods (however this puppet lost one of its bamboo rods over the years due to age) It was used in Wayang puppet...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Leather, Wood
20th Century Shipibo Pot
Located in Chicago, IL
A striking 20th century Amazonian Shipibo pot hand-built from clay, decorated with wide red and orange lines, and glazed with the sap of a tree. Members of...
Category
20th Century Brazilian Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Clay
African Tribal Art Fine Shona Neck Rest Head Rest
Located in London, GB
A fine shona head rest neck rest
Raised on a single central pillar finely carved with geometric designs
Shona Zimbabwe
Measures: Height 5 inches, width 6...
Category
19th Century Zimbabwean Antique Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Mid-20th Century Man's Ceremonial (cofradía) Outfit, Chichicastenango, Guatemala
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Mid-20th century man's ceremonial (cofradía) outfit, Chichicastenango, Guatemala.
25" (63.5 cm) shoulder to hem by 59" (274 cm) across shoulders
It is rare to find a complete ceremo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Guatemalan Spanish Colonial Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Wool
Tibetan Coral Necklace with Silver Painted Wooden Beads c. 1900
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
A wonderful example of a Tibetan Coral Bead mala / neckpiece with a stunning mix of orange & red colours that have aged beautifully over the decades. Tib...
Category
Early 20th Century Tibetan Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Coral, Silver
Akan Ceremonial Brass Bronze Plate With Mudfish and Adinkra Symbols Ghana Africa
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Finely worked Akan ceremonial brass plate with hammered designs of a mudfish in center and Adinkra symbols in rim. With wear, some holes in bottom.
Field collected in Ghana in 2002....
Category
Early 20th Century Ghanaian Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Brass
Indonesian 'Wayang Golek" Shadow Puppet, Java, Indonesia, Early 20th Century
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
This “Wayang Golek” is a visibly old shadow puppet carved using soft wood and cloth. It features an articulated head and arms connected to rods, the dress...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Fabric, Wood
Indonesian 'Wayang Kulit" Shadow Puppet, Java, Indonesia, Early 20th Century
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
This flat shadow puppet was crafted on the island of Java by a puppet artist using buffalo hide and mounted on bamboo sticks. It was used in Wayang puppet...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Leather, Wood
Indonesian 'Wayang Kulit" Shadow Puppet, Java, Indonesia, Early 20th Century
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
This flat shadow puppet was crafted on the island of Java by a puppet artist using buffalo hide and mounted on bamboo sticks. It features movable arms, controlled by outer bamboo rods (however this puppet lost one of its bamboo rods over the years due to age) It was used in Wayang puppet...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Leather, Wood
African Akan Terracotta Commemorative Memorial Portrait Head Ghana Tribal Art
Located in London, GB
West African Akan Terracotta Commemorative memorial portrait Head Ghana
Terracotta with red slip 8 1/2 x 7 inches, 21.5 x 18 cm,
Period 19th century or earlier.
Provence : jean Dave...
Category
19th Century Ghanaian Antique Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Terracotta
Antique Thai Hill Tribe Cuff Bracelet with Engraved Tribal Patterns
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
This Thai hill tribe silver bracelet is beautifully engraved with tribal motifs. The Thai Silver Jewellery created by the Hill Tribes are objects o...
Category
Early 20th Century Thai Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Silver
Tribal Ceremonial Silver Ornament/Neckrings, Sculpture, Miao, Guizhou, Plus Stand
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a great and important ceremonial neck rings ware by the people of the Minorities of China, the Golden triangle ,Mongolia and Tibet. These pieces were made of low content of s...
Category
20th Century Chinese Modern Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Metal
Mid-20th Century Ceremonial Comb, Luba People, Zaire, D. R. Congo
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Ceremonial comb, Luba People, Zaire, D. R. Congo
Made of palm leaf midribs, this large, graphic comb has a pinched waist and is held together with finely wrapped wire. Presented o...
Category
Mid-20th Century Congolese Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Wire
Haussa People, Nigeria, Dagger with Organic Handle
Located in Leuven , BE
Beautifully crafted dager from Nigeria (Haussa People) with an organic handle.
Hausa people are frond in northwestern Nigeria and adjacent southern Ni...
Category
20th Century Nigerian Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Metal
1980s Silver Clamper Bracelet, Taxco, Mexico
Located in Point Richmond, CA
1980s silver clamper bracelet, Taxco, Mexico
This beautiful repoussé silver floral clamper bracelet is adorned with leaves and acorns or buds. The marks inside are: a double-stamp...
Category
1980s Mexican Bohemian Vintage Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Silver
Large Polychrome Fruitera Pedestal Dish, Cocle Culture, Panama
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Large Polychrome Fruitera Pedestal Dish, Cocle Culture, Panama
A large pedestal dish with two hammerhead shark-like sea creatures in plum, ochre and b...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Panamanian Tribal Antique Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Terracotta
Hand-Wound Nagaland "Coral Glass" 10 Strand Beaded Necklace, India c. 1900
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
A 10-strand necklace hand-crafted from red-orange Naga beads from the early 20th century and strung with natural fibers. Necklaces such as these were a stat...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Glass
Large Antique Horizontal African Textile Shadowbox Wall Hanging
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Professionally museum mounted exceptional antique African textile with brown small textile fragments woven into the geometric pattern in raffi...
Category
20th Century African Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Cotton, Raffia, Lucite, Wood
African Tribal Art Antique Zulu Nguni Pipe Group South Africa
Located in London, GB
Zulu / Nguni Pipe Group South Africa
Carved wood with metal liners, one rare very large sized pipe
Lengths 14, 8, 7 inches 36, 20, 17.5 cm
Period Late 19th early 20th century.
Category
19th Century South African Antique Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Indonesian 'Wayang Kulit" Shadow Puppet, Java, Indonesia, Early 20th Century
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
This flat shadow puppet was crafted on the island of Java by a puppet artist using buffalo hide and mounted on bamboo sticks. It features movable arms, controlled by outer bamboo rod...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Leather, Wood
Nias 'Kalabubu' Coconut & Brass Headhunter Necklace
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
This 'Kalabubu' necklace, also known as the 'head-hunter' necklace made out of coconut and brass is the most important ornament for the men of Southern Nias Island, North Sumatra...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Brass
20th Century Agate and Silver Earrings by Jewels
Located in Point Richmond, CA
20th Century Agate and Silver earrings by Jewels
Four rare hair ornaments carved in agate, called Tanfouk or Talhakimt, drop from a copper and silver disk for a pair of lightweigh...
Category
20th Century Moroccan Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Agate, Silver, Copper
Late 19th-Early 20th White Bailer Shell Pectoral, Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Late 19th-early 20th Bailer shell pectoral, Highlands, possibly Mendi People, Papua New Guinea
These large shell pectorals were worn ceremonially by men and women in Papua New Guine...
Category
Early 20th Century Papua New Guinean Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Shell
Antique Akha Hill Tribe Silver Cuff Bracelet, Golden Triangle
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
A large Akha Tribe woven silver bracelet with spiral design. This Tribal bracelet encompasses tradition Hill tribe silversmithing techniques with each silve...
Category
Early 20th Century Thai Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Silver
Yoruba Nigeria African Red Royal Beaded Headdress Crown on Lucite Stand
Located in North Hollywood, CA
West African hand beaded head dress crown from Yoruba, Nigeria.
This artistic beautiful and functional art piece is covered with beads in ivory, red and black colors with faces bird...
Category
Mid-20th Century Nigerian Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Metal
Antique Akha Hill Tribe Silver Cuff Bracelet, Golden Triangle
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
An Akha Tribe Woven Silver Bracelet with spiral design. This Tribal bracelet encompasses tradition Hill tribe silversmithing techniques with each silver str...
Category
Early 20th Century Thai Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Silver
Bas Congo Sword, Private collection of Bruno Conti 'Brussels'
Located in Leuven , BE
Bas Congo Sword / Scepter 19th C.
Collection Bruno Conti (Bruno Conti, Brussels, 1974-2003).
Category
19th Century Antique Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Metal
Sparkling Silver and Glass South Indian Drop Earrings by Jewels of Santa Fe
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Sparkling silver and glass south Indian drop earrings by Jewels
A pair of sparkling drop earrings by Jewels of Santa Fe/Marrakesh, composed of cut glass with a slight pink tone se...
Category
20th Century Indian Tribal Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Silver
Vintage Peruvian Folk Art Framed Negreria Dance Cape
Located in Forney, TX
A scarce framed fragment of "Negreria" dance cape, circa 1940s, Huayucachi, Junin, Peru.
Dating to the mid-20th century, the rare large size South ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Peruvian Folk Art Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Textile, Cotton, Sequins
15th Century or Earlier Redware Tangas, Marajoara Culture, Marajo Island, Brazil
Located in Point Richmond, CA
15th Century or Earlier Redware Tangas, Marajoara culture, Marajo Island, Brazil
Tangas are thin concave triangular ceramic pubic covers found in burial mounds associated with fem...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Brazilian Tribal Antique Hand-Crafted Tribal Art
Materials
Earthenware
