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Two Fine Yaka Ornamental Figural Wood Combs Cisakulo West Africa
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Two Exquisite Yaka Figural Decorative Wooden Combs "Cisakulo".
These remarkable antique wooden combs feature handles adorned with geometric carvings the top depicting a standing female and the other comb a male figure.
The wooden hair combs are not only for the practical purpose of hair combing but also as items of decoration and adornment.
Within the Asante Akan Kingdom of West Africa, these combs held significant cultural value.
They were presented to women by family members and male admirers before and during courtship, and subsequently by husbands.
Elaborately carved with symbolic designs, these combs symbolize beauty, status, and good fortune in a woman's life.
Highly collectible pieces with minor signs of wear on the wood.
Dimensions: 11" in height by 2.75" in width.
Dimensions: 10" in height by 2.5" in width.
Early tribal African wood comb Ivory Coast ( Cote D 'Ivoire).
The Ashanti Empire, was an Akan state that lasted from 1701 to 1901, in what is now modern-day Ghana. It expanded from the Ashanti Region to include most of Ghana as well as parts of Ivory Coast and Togo.
Highly Collectible Museum Pieces.
Circa 1920’s.
From the Art collection of Marian and John Scott.
Acquisition date: 1960s.
Purchased from the amazing private collection of Mark Lissauer who spent his life collecting niche ethnographic pieces.
About Mark Lissauer:
Mark Lissauer spent forty years travelling abroad for months at a time collecting ethnographic artefacts primarily from New Guinea and the islands of the West Pacific, and from Asia and Himalayan countries. Fluent in five languages and having in the course of business travelled to more than forty countries, Mark is well-known to museums and art-collectors around the world for his long career and his interesting and diverse collection of rare ethnographic material.
Mark knows the origin and symbolism of each piece. Through extensive research and more than ninety trips around the globe, Mark familiarised himself with the traditions of the various cultures he visited in order to understand the meaning of each object to its region and tribe. His home has a specialist library and several rooms are filled with tribal carvings, textiles and ethnographica.
He acquired his first tribal piece in 1948 during a business trip to Milne Bay, New Guinea, and has since documented the acquisition of some 35,000 items. Several thousands of these have been sold to important private collections and museums worldwide, including the Rockefeller Museum, the British Museum and the Musée National des Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie, now incorporated into the Louvre Museum.
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- Dimensions:Height: 11 in (27.94 cm)Width: 3 in (7.62 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
- Style:Tribal (In the Style Of)
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- Date of Manufacture:1920
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use. wear due to age,.
- Seller Location:North Hollywood, CA
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