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Place of Origin: African
1960s Moroccan Vintage Tribal African Rug
By Berber Tribes of Morocco
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Moroccan authentic vintage tribal rug handwoven by Berber Moroccan women using organic lamb wo and organic dye.Vintage Berber rug from the Taznakht tribe in south eastern Morocco. Ra...
Category
1960s Tribal Vintage African Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Moroccan Green Ceramic Urns with Arabic Calligraphy Lettrism Art Writing
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Large Moroccan green ceramic urns with lid chiseled with Arabic Calligraphy poetry writing.
Handcrafted in Fez Morocco, etched green ceramic on brown background.
This kind of Art Wri...
Category
20th Century Moorish African Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Carved Aftican Wood Sculpture from Togo
Located in New York, NY
Elegant, carved wood sculpture representing the human figure from Togo, Africa.
A large, dramatic piece for a tribal art collection and creating a rare, unique and special presence.
Category
19th Century Primitive Antique African Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Rare Large Moroccan Berber Boucherouite Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Woven with the exclusive use of recycled yarns of various type, ranging from cotton to lurex, this represents 'art brut' within the domain of the textile arts. Weavings such as this ...
Category
Late 20th Century Folk Art African Folk Art
Materials
Cotton
Dramatic Boucherouite Moroccan Berber Flat-Weave Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Woven with the exclusive use of recycled industrial yarns of various type, ranging from cotton to lurex, its weft directed pattern converges towards the centre, in a manner that remi...
Category
Late 20th Century Tribal African Folk Art
Materials
Cotton
Pair of Moroccan Green and Brown Chiselled Ceramic Urns with Handles
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Pair of Moroccan green and brown ceramic urns with lid and handles.
Great Moorish style handcrafted and chiselled decorative ceramic urns etched with Arabic calligraphy poetry writin...
Category
20th Century Moorish African Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage Moroccan Berber Boucherouite Flat-Weave Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Woven with the exclusive use of recycled industrial yarns of various type, ranging from cotton to lurex, its weft directed pattern converges towards the centre, in a manner that remi...
Category
Late 20th Century Tribal African Folk Art
Materials
Cotton
Kutu Anklet-Ekonda Culture, African Art
By Ekonda Culture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kutu Anklet-Ekonda culture, Democratic Republic of Congo. Puddle cast, forged and engraved copper alloy. The beautiful ankle cuff sculpture, is hand-forged, very heavy and a great tr...
Category
20th Century Tribal African Folk Art
Materials
Copper, Metal
Vintage Moroccan Beni Ouarain Berber Rug
By Beni Ourain
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Moroccan Beni Ouarain carpet, white lush organic natural wo, hand woven by women of the Middle Atlas of Morocco. Authentic Moroccan Beni Ouarain tribal rug from the Berber tribes of ...
Category
1940s Tribal Vintage African Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Graphic Eastern Moroccan Vintage Abstract Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The Berber carpets from eastern Morocco, near the border with Algeria, are distinguished by wild patterns and audacious color combinations. This example displays all of these charact...
Category
1940s Tribal Vintage African Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Unusual Moroccan Berber Boucherouite Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Woven with the exclusive use of recycled yarns of various type, ranging from cotton to lurex, this represents 'art brut' within the domain of the textile arts. Weavings such as this ...
Category
Late 20th Century Folk Art African Folk Art
Materials
Cotton
1960s Authentic Moroccan Red Tribal Rug North Africa
By Berber Tribes of Morocco
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Moroccan vintage rug - Rehmana from the plains of Marrakech.Authentic vintage Rehmana rug 2nd quarter 20th century. Circa 1960sClector piece vibrant cors and asymmetrical composition...
Category
1970s Bohemian Vintage African Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Rare and Unusual Mid-Century Modern Beni Ouarain Wool Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The Beni Ouarain confederation is composed of seventeen tribes inhabiting the high mountain region of the northeastern Middle Atlas. Their rugs differ from other Berber weavings in t...
Category
1940s Mid-Century Modern Vintage African Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Dramatic Moroccan Berber Boucherouite Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Woven with the exclusive use of recycled yarns of various type, ranging from cotton to lurex, this represents 'art brut' within the domain of the textile arts. Weavings such as this ...
Category
Late 20th Century Folk Art African Folk Art
Materials
Cotton
1960s Moroccan Vintage Ethnic Orange Organic Wool Rug Africa
By Berber Tribes of Morocco
Located in North Hollywood, CA
1960s authentic Moroccan vintage tribal organic wo rug, earth orange tone cors, Handwoven by the Berber women of the Middle Atlas of Morocco. Geometrical abstract designs, great clector pile ethnic carpet...
Category
1960s Tribal Vintage African Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Vintage Moroccan Authentic Tribal Kilim Rug North Africa
By Berber Tribes of Morocco
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Moroccan Zemmour rugs are flat woven by the Berber women leaving near Khemisset, Zaiane and Azrou.This flat weaves, Kilim rugs are often used a wall coveri...
Category
1950s Tribal Vintage African Folk Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Vintage Colorful Striped Tunisian Flat-Weave Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A colorful Tunisian Kilim decorated by a repeat pattern of horizontal stripes arranged in clusters of different width and palette. A very happy piece ce...
Category
1950s Tribal Vintage African Folk Art
Materials
Wool
1960s Vintage Moroccan Tribal African Rug
By Berber Tribes of Morocco
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Fabous authentic 1960s vintage Moroccan tribal African rug.Handwoven by Berber women in Morocco using organic wo and vegetable dyes. Very nice earth tone cors with dark royal blue.So...
Category
1960s Tribal Vintage African Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Vintage Mejjat Berber 'Desert Sand' Flat-Weave Haik Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A finely woven haik from the Mejjat tribe, located in the most southern part of the Moroccan Anti Atlas region. Distinguished for their blanket-like handle and for their unique icono...
Category
1960s Tribal Vintage African Folk Art
Materials
Wool
1950s Vintage Moroccan Black Zemmour Kilim Runner Rug
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Moroccan nomadic Tuareg rug, black camel hair with wo and cotton embroidered geometrical modernist designs.Those rugs are light for easy fding and travel for the Nomadic peop...
Category
1950s Tribal Vintage African Folk Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Moroccan Handcrafted Metal Lanterns, North Africa set of 2
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Moroccan Handcrafted Metal Hanging Lanterns, North Africa set of 2.
Moroccan metal Moorish hanging lanterns.
Amazing Moorish light fixtures hand...
Category
20th Century Moorish African Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Carved Wood African Headdress on Later Iron Stand
Located in Buchanan, MI
Carved wood African headdress on later iron stand.
Category
20th Century African Folk Art
Materials
Wood
African Mother and Daughter Tribal Figures
Located in Asheville, NC
Graceful pair of sleek carved standing African female figures poised upon discs of contrasting dark hardwood most likely from the Ivory Coast.
Category
19th Century Antique African Folk Art
Materials
Bone, Hardwood
Moroccan Tribal Wedding Rug with Sequins North Africa
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Moroccan Tribal Wedding Rug With Sequins. Moroccan vintage tribal rug flat woven by the Zaiane Berber women from Morocco.Moroccan summer rugs are light flat Kilim, easy to carry arou...
Category
20th Century Folk Art African Folk Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Old Moroccan Saddle or Saddle Pad
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
nr. 1166 - I found this nomadic saddle among the various Moroccan carpets i bought many years ago from a young traveller, who sold me all his collection...
Category
Mid-20th Century Archaistic African Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Saddle or Saddle Pad Moroccan Carpet
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
nr. 1095 - I found this nomadic saddle among the various Moroccan carpets I bought from a young traveller, who sold me all his collection many years ago...
Category
Mid-20th Century Archaistic African Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Ashanti tribal stool Ghana
By Akan Ashanti
Located in London, GB
An early to mid 20th century Ashanti tribal stool. An original piece which has been well used and not produced for the tourist industry. Carved from a single piece of wood.
Category
Early 20th Century Tribal African Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Small Ashanti tribal headrest stool
By Akan Ashanti
Located in London, GB
A wonderful small early 20th century Ashanti tribal stool, headrest. Carved from a single piece of wood. Well worn and genuine tribal stool or headrest.
Category
1920s Tribal Vintage African Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Bronze Group, Chief with Servants, Asante People, Ghana, 1950s
By Akan Ashanti
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A cast bronze group presenting a tribal chief (king) with his servants. A musician with a drum, a person with a palm leaf, another one holding an umbrella to give shade and two guard...
Category
Mid-20th Century Tribal African Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
African Metal Exchange Object from Congo
Located in Schellebelle, BE
Beautiful Exchange Currency Object in metal from Congo,
from around the 1970 ies,
originally used as a foot-ankle band, as sign of wealth,
later used as a currency object,
the metal ...
Category
1970s Vintage African Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Grouping of Ashanti Bronze Figurines, Asante People, Ghana, 1970s
By Akan Ashanti
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Grouping of Akan Ashanti cast bronze figurines. The Ashanti or Asante People from Ghana have a rich tradition of crafting bronze pieces to commemorate important figures from their cu...
Category
Mid-20th Century Tribal African Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Superb Antique Moroccan Koumiya Berber Dagger 19th c Islamic arts
Located in London, GB
Superb Antique Moroccan Koumiya Berber Dagger
A rare and superb example of a Moroccan Koumiya Berber Dagger with highly ornate silver and brass work a...
Category
19th Century Antique African Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Mid-Century Modern Mother and Child Marble Stone Sculpture, Kenya, c. 1980's
Located in Deland, FL
Introducing a heart-warming abstract sculpture depicting a parent with child in embrace. Hand-carved in solid marble by a Kenyan artisan this exquisite, petite sculpture is the perfe...
Category
1980s Folk Art Vintage African Folk Art
Materials
Marble
1930's Mbole Woven Bark Fibre Decorative Panels
Located in London, GB
Woven panels such as this would have decorated the walls of a traditional Mbole meeting house in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. These woven decorative Mbole panels are made fr...
Category
1930s Tribal Vintage African Folk Art
Materials
Natural Fiber
Handcrafted Wooden Dogon Ladder, Mali, 20th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
A classic Dogon ladder made of dark wood and mounted on a sturdy metal stand.
The Dogon people live in southeastern Mali and Burkina Faso. Despite being surrounded by Muslims, th...
Category
1920s Tribal Vintage African Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Egyptian Ptolemaic Period Mummified Stoneware Shabti Figure
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A rare and unusual large sized Egyptian mummified Shabti figure dating from the Ptolemaic Dynasty 305-30BC or possibly earlier. The stone figure is carved in a lying position with wo...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Egyptian Antique African Folk Art
Materials
Stone
Wabi-Sabi Old Repaired Ashanti Bronze Brass Vessel Crocodiles, Patina, Repairs
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Modern and contemporary artists working in crafts mediums (especially ceramics, metals and basketry) in the Expressionist style developed from the 1950s, were inspired by such artwor...
Category
Early 20th Century Tribal African Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
19th Century African Zulu War Club "Knobkerrie" Killing Stick
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
19th century Zulu war club known as a Knobkerrie made from the wood of a root ball or wad and carried by Zulu warriors in South Africa. Made from the har...
Category
19th Century Antique African Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Wooden Mask with Rock Crystal Eyes and Bronze Eyelids/Eyebrows
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Wooden mask with rock crystal eyes and bronze eyelids/eyebrows
Circa: 711-332 BC
Origin: Egypt.
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique African Folk Art
Materials
Stucco
Midcentury Masai Shield, Kenya/Tanzania
Located in Schagen, NL
Masai Shield hand painted with pigments on (Cow)hide. This stunning elliptical graphic shield was probably owned by a warrior herder as younger warriors w...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art African Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Hide
19th Century Libyan Wooden Torah Finials
Located in New York, NY
Pair of wooden Torah finials, Libya, 19th century.
Hand carved and decorated with red, green and gold paint.
Fine and rare example of wooden Torah orna...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique African Folk Art
Materials
Giltwood
Antique African Queens Throne Seat
Located in Lambertville, NJ
African Ashanti queens royalty bench. The throne seat is carved from one piece of wood with its original patination to the finish. Extraordinary style and ...
Category
Early 20th Century Tribal African Folk Art
Materials
Hardwood
Copper Alloy African Ankle Bracelet from the Early 20th Century
Located in Atlanta, GA
An early 20th century African ankle bracelet made from copper alloy. These antique tribal bracelets were used as forms of currency, meant to be worn about the ankle. This beautiful a...
Category
Early 20th Century African Folk Art
Materials
Copper
Large Ethiopian Hide Shield
Located in New York, NY
A beautifully sculptural and three dimensional animal hide shield from Ethiopia. This fabulous handmade object was formed by carefully shaping the leather over stones to create its ...
Category
20th Century African Folk Art
Materials
Leather
African Tribal Kuba Dance Cloth From Congo
Located in New York, NY
Handmade from rafia and hand-stitched with great artistry, this Kuba dance cloth is powerful as a graphic piece of art. It has some soiling consistent with its use. It would make a g...
Category
Mid-20th Century Tribal African Folk Art
Materials
Raffia
Moroccan Rug in Ivory with Chocolate Brown Design
Located in St. Louis, MO
Moroccan hand-loomed wool rug, ivory with chocolate brown diamond design.
Category
1970s Vintage African Folk Art
Materials
Wool
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