Antique African Royal Ceremonial Buffalo Drinking Horn Bamum “Ndu Nyiet”

Large Vintage Hopi Pueblo Redware Pottery Jar Scraffito Avanyu Design. Intricately etched and fully polished red large Hopi - San Ildefonso pottery ...

Ancient Northwest Coast Stone Club estimated A.D. to Pre-European Contact. This is an exceptional ethnological treasure of great aesthetic quality and rarity. The stone club is ca...

Antique Pair of English Maritime Colored Etchings 1806. English hand-colored etchings of a 90 Gun Ship at Spithead and a Collier with a view of the S...

Antique English Palmer Family crest painted oil on board Elaborate crest painting of the English Palmer family of Dorney Court of Buckinghamshire. Th...

Antique Gem-Size Tintype Portraits Miniature Leather Album 1860-1870. Antique and very rare leather-bound tintype photo album. Superb miniature, very we...

Antique painting “Madonna with a Napkin” after Bartolome Esteban Murillo, 1666 This lovely oil painting on beveled wood panel is after the f...

Early antique hand carved Toma or Landai mask from Guinea, Africa. “These brooding, often quite large, masks represent a forest spirit, Landai. Masks lik...

An unusual and whimsical figural TOTEM carved bone ceremonial pipe, displayed raised on a custom wooden Stand. Outstanding patina. Superb condition. Dimensions: (approx) Pipe...

Two Oceanic ceremonial weapons from PNG highlands circa 20th century. It consists of two pieces. The first is an ax with a wood shaft and a flat elongated he...

Characterized by its open shape capped with geometric ends, this bracelet is but one form of the many types of body adornments favored the Fulani people of West Africa. The thick des...

An antique Ashanti ceremonial stool, carved from a single piece of wood. The up-curved seat stands on five supports, the central one pierced with small semi circles and the outer four supports carved, fretted. In very good condition Length 46cm Height 34cm Width 24cm The origin of the Ashante culture can be found in the Akan ethnic groups that inhabited West Africa around Lake Volta and the Gulf of Guinea. The Asante formed a strong confederation that developed from the late 17th century, with the founding of the city of Kumasi, and whose economy was based on trade, gold mining and slave traffic. They are the most important and larger ethnic group in Ghana and was one of the few African states capable of resisting European imperialism. Within the material heritage and furniture of the Ashante people, some of the most outstanding pieces are the ceremonial stools, being the Golden Stool...

The Art Of African Textiles Clarke, Duncan. Published by Thunder Bay., San Diego., 2002. This book offers a fascinating journey through the history and culture of textiles in Afric...