Tribal Art

This elegant terracotta head is a memorial portrait (nsodie) of an Akan nobleman from the part of Africa which is today southern Ghana and southeastern Cô...

Basket, Panama, Darien, Rainforest, Butterfly, Flower, white, red, yellow, green unique hand woven extremely finely woven

Handmade Benin sculptural tribal bronze figural judgement throne chair. The base of the chair with two tiers of standing figures. The back of the chair with two more tiers of standin...

Mother Goddess Figurine Early Indus Valley Civilization (circa 3500 - 2800 BC) Handmade pottery, 140 mm x 45 mm, 60 g Provenance: Prince Collection, 1990s-2014; Pierre Bergé Colle...

Illustration of a Village by the River - Amate Bark Drawing in Ink Illustration with people in a village by Cristino Florez Medina (Mexican, 1937-2007). This piece is divided horizo...

This is a fabulous, large tribal painting on cloth canvas with dung wash and white paints. Anil Vangad, Cloth size: 87 x 119 cm, Image size 78.5 x 110.5 cm, white colour on dung wa...

Deer Dance, painting by Tonita Pena, Santa Fe, Cochiti, Pueblo, male, female Tonita Peña (born 1893 in San Ildefonso, died 1949 in Kewa Pueblo, New Mexico) was born as Quah Ah (meaning white coral beads) but also used the name Tonita Vigil Peña and María Antonia Tonita Peña. Peña was a renowned Pueblo artist, specializing in pen and ink on paper embellished with watercolor. She was a well-known and influential Native American artist and art teacher of the early 1920s and 1930s. Tonita Peña was born on May 10, 1893, at San Ildefonso Pueblo, to Ascensión Vigil Peña and Natividad Peña of San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico. When she was 12, her mother and younger sister died, as a result of complications due to the flu. Her father was unable to care for her and she was taken to Cochití Pueblo and was brought up by her aunt Martina Vigil Montoya, a prominent Cochití Pueblo potter. Peña attended St. Catherine Indian School in Santa Fe. Edgar Lee Hewett, an anthropologist involved in supervising the nearby Frijoles Canyon excavations (now Bandelier National Monument) was instrumental in developing the careers of several San Ildefonso “self-taught” artists including Tonita Peña. Hewett purchased Peña's paintings for the Museum of New Mexico and supplied her with quality paint and paper. Peña began gaining more notoriety by the end of the 1910s selling an increasing amount of her work to collectors and the La Fonda Hotel. Much of this early work was done of Pueblo cultural subject matter, in a style inspired by historic Native American works, however, her use of an artist's easel and Western painting mediums gained her acceptance among her European-American contemporaries in the art world. At the age of 25, she exhibited her work at museums and galleries in the Santa Fe and Albuquerque area. In the early 1920s, Tonita did not know how much her painting sold for at the Museum of New Mexico, so she wrote letters to the administrators because a local farmer was worried that she got paid too little. In the 1930s Peña was an instructor at the Santa Fe Indian School and at the Albuquerque Indian School and the only woman painter of the San Ildefonso Self-Taught Group, which included such noted artists as Alfonso Roybal, Julian Martinez, Abel Sánchez (Oqwa Pi), Crecencio Martinez, and Encarnación Peña. As children, these artists attended San Ildefonso day school which was part of the institution of the Dawes Act of 1887, designed to indoctrinate and assimilate Native American children into mainstream American society. In 1931, Tonita Peña exhibited at the Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts which was presented at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City. Works from this exhibition were shown at the 1932 Venice Biennial. That year is the only time Native American artists have shown in the official United States pavilion at that biennial, and Tonita Peña's paintings were part of that exhibition.[1 Her painting Basket Dance, that had shown in the Venice Biennial was acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York for $225. This was the highest price paid up to this time for a Pueblo painting...

Basket, Parrot, Toucan designs Panama Rainforest Wounaan Tribe handwoven with palm fibers and vegetal dyes The baskets are made by the Wounaan and Embera Indians from the Darien R...

Signed/inscribed by the Artist on the bronze base of the sculpture with an edition number. 6/15

George Lilanga (1934-2005) - Tribal dance - Acrylic on board Painting size 61x61 cm. Frameless. George Lilanga was born in 1934 in the city of Kikwetu, in the southeast of Tanzania ...

Corn Kachina, by Riley Sunrise, Quoyavema, Hopi, Kachina, Dancer, painting Artist Signature - Riley Sunrise (1914-2006) Quoyavema “Another of the earlier Hopi artists, Riley Sunrise (Quoyavema) worked with Fred Kabotie and Waldo Mootzka in illustrating John Louw Nelson’s Rhythm for Rain. He is also known as Quoyavema or Kwayeshva, according to Nelson. His paintings are comparable to Fred Kabotie’s, with some of them showing more action and most of them revealing less detail. Sunrise is represented in the collections of the Denver Art Museum, Gilcrease Institute (Tulsa), and the Southwest Museum. The Museum of the American Indian in New York has an extensive collection of his paintings of native Hopi dances.” (Clara Lee Tanner: Southwest Indian...

Antique Indonesian Horse, yellow, red, sculpture, free-standing, vintage, walking Some wear on paint and crack that has been repaired.

Artist: Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri (c.1929-1984) Titled:"Marla Serpent Story" size: 68x96 cm year: c.1977 Aboriginal art Australian Art Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri (c.1929-1984) est né à ...

Native American Indian Warriors on Horseback with Dramatic Moonlit Landscape Oil Painting by British Artist. Art measures 49 x 26 inches Born in 1952 in Bournemouth, Alan Langfor...

"Bronze Statue - Ife, Nigeria" is a bronze sculpture created in circa 1920. This figure has short legs and a short torso, but a large head. They held out their hands with two objects...

Within Nigeria's Benue River Valley region, such representations have been associated with a range of functions, including reinforcement of the status of male elders and used by heal...

45x45cm + 5cm of white edge Acrylic on canvas Shipped rolled in a tube I can do commissioned works

A late 20th century watercolour on silk on handmade paper of an antique Caucasian 'Kuba' rug by French artist La Roche Laffitte. Faintly signed to the bottom right. This is one of a ...

Ceramic totem with charcoal glaze and red accents. Features a stylized chicken and conch shell at the top. Simplicity of the color brings a minimalistic approach to this totem.

A group of four Native North American carved wood and painted effigy figures, Hopi Katsina or Kachina dolls paddling their canoe. Four wonderfully playful, brightly coloured and hig...

“Scattered across the Ivory Coast, Mali and Burkina Faso, the million and a half Senufo tribespeople live principally off the fruits of agriculture and occasionally hunting. They in...

A Japanese Embroidery featuring a dog and wagon, silk and gold thread embroidery by an unknown artist from c. 1890. The artwork is unsigned. Provenance: Private Collection, Los Angeles; Heather James...

Untitled . Offset Lithograph by Izumi Kato Printed in 2020 for the Exhibition at Perrotin Gallery Paris Sheet size: 72 × 39 cm (Framed 77 x 43 cm)

Carved serpentine sculpture from the Shona tribe of Zimbabwe

Antique Polychrome Wood Carving Igbo Nigeria Africa, Staff decorated with two figures, mounted as a finial on the shaft terminating in a triang...

Framed Hmong Ethnic Necklace, Silver Plated Metal, 20th Century – Laos, Thailand Extraordinary and rarely seen ethnic necklace made of silver plated metal, from Thailand. Recently f...

"Senufo (Gbon) Statute of Royalty" is a sculpture by thr Senufo peoples of Gabon. It is wood, mixed fiber, textiles, and cowry shells. 14" x 8" x 3" The...

The present decorative frieze, signed by the Malagasy painter Georges Razanamaniraka, is organized around the central figure of an enigmatic and hypnotic dancer. The quasi-symmetrica...

"Toma Mask, Guinea" is a carved wooden mask from Africa and created in c. 1900. The painting has worn away, but around the eyes the painting is easier to see...

A stone sculpture by an unknown Indian artist. "Procession with Horses, India, 12th Century" is a royal procession scene from a medieval, Indian temple. ...

This mask, depicting a western character with only partly slanted eyes and a mustache, was created by an unknown Indonesian artist. It is a deep mustard green and is about 7" tall by...

Inscribed with Artist's name and edition number. 37/100

George Lilanga (1934-2005) - The African dentist - Acrylic on board Painting size 61x61 cm. Frameless. George Lilanga was born in 1934 in the city of Kikwetu, in the southeast of Ta...

An elegant African sculpture from the West African Baoulé or Baule people, depicting a young woman wearing a loincloth. Smooth black lightly worn patina.

Signed/inscribed by the Artist on the bronze base of the sculpture with an edition number. 6/9

Gary Goldberg Birthing Mother, 2023 Dry wool needle felting 48 x 32 in Edition of 3 One of Gary Goldberg’s photographs from his Mesa Prieta Petroglyphs (in New Mexico) series has be...

Untitled . Offset Lithograph by Izumi Kato Printed in 2020 for the Exhibition at Perrotin Gallery Paris Sheet size: 58.5 × 39 cm (Framed 63 x 43 cm)

A silk embroidery by an unknown Japanese artist. “Fukusa, Pair of Lobsters” is from the Meiji Period and in golds and blues. The artwork is unsigned. Provenance: Private Collection, Palm Springs Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert

An extraordinary group of Ibeji "triplets" sculpted by the same master sculptor. Ibeji is name of a very specific type of carved wooden figure from Yoruba in Nigeria. Ibejis repre...

"Jokwe Maternity, Angola" is a wood sculpture from Africa created circa 1910. The figure kneels on the ground holding a baby in her arms. Her eyes are closed and she is wearing a com...

Most Mambilla or Mambila people live in East-Nigeria; a small fraction migrated across the Cameroon border. They are famous for the originality of their sculptures, especially the so...

A bronze Thai Bell from the Dongson Culture (1000 BC-200 AD). The work is unsigned.

Very finely executed ink and watercolor painting depicting the Balinese goddess, Saraswati. Signed lower left “De Mus, keliki-Kawan, Ubud, Bali”. The ...

George Lilanga (1934-2005) - Tribal dance - Acrylic on board Painting size 61x61 cm. Frameless. George Lilanga was born in 1934 in the city of Kikwetu, in the southeast of Tanzania ...

A Songye Male Power Figure, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the male figure with openwork arms and hands resting on the abdomen, typical facial features and a waterbuck (kobus elli...

A late 20th century watercolour on silk on handmade paper of an antique Caucasian 'Kuba' rug by French artist La Roche Laffitte. Faintly signed to the bottom right. This is one of a ...

Highly detailed depiction of a Barong Mask dance in Bali. Several people wearing elaborate masks are taking part in a dance or ritual. People are dressed i...

Tutsi tribe artist Ndatite Ilo from Rwanda carved this gorgeous African wood statue sculpture. This unique artwork features a beautiful black woman, often depicted as a Mother or Mad...

lithograph 20" high x 15" wide unframed signed and numbered...

A late 20th century watercolour on silk on handmade paper of an antique Caucasian 'Kuba' rug by French artist La Roche Laffitte. Faintly signed to the bottom right. This is one of a ...

Frog and Spider Basket, Panama Rain Forest, Wounaan Tribe, handwoven, white, red

A late 20th century watercolour on silk on handmade paper of an antique Caucasian 'Kuba' rug by French artist La Roche Laffitte. Faintly signed to the bottom right. This is one of a ...

A late 20th century watercolour on silk on handmade paper of an antique Caucasian 'Kuba' rug by French artist La Roche Laffitte. Faintly signed to the bottom right. This is one of a ...

A late 20th century watercolour painting on silk laid on handmade paper of an antique Caucasian 'Kuba' rug by French artist La Roche Laffitte. Faintly signed to the bottom right. Thi...

Wounaan Tribe Panama Rainforest Basket black, white geometric rectangle hand woven, palm fibers natural dye Tribal artwork The baskets are made by ...

Sculpture africaine représentant une femme lionne assise. Bois noirci. Cote d'Ivoire . Baoulé. début XX siècle

A late 20th century watercolour on silk on handmade paper of an antique Caucasian 'Kuba' rug by French artist La Roche Laffitte. Faintly signed to the bottom right. This is one of a ...

lithograph 20" high x 15" wide unframed signed and numbered...

Unglazed ceramic, hand-crafted and hand-decorated. (plants not included) unknown edition size. New as issued. Due to their hand-finished nature, each sculpture differs slightly. Gra...

This artwork titled "Kwa-Giulth, Thundrbird" 1987 is a wood carving bas-relief by Canadian artist Kevin Cranmer, b.1968 It is signed, titled and dated in...