Tanzania Mask
1950's Nyamwezi Mask With Inserted Wooden Teeth, Tanzania
Located in London, GB
This finely carved Nyamwezi mask displays a powerful facial expression, with small rounded eyes and
Category
Mid-20th Century Tanzanian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Powerful Scarified Makonde Portrait Helmet Mask Tanzania, Early 20th C Africa
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Powerful Scarified Makonde portrait helmet mask from Tanzania. Early 20th century with heavy dark
Category
Early 20th Century Tanzanian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
H 9.5 in W 9.5 in D 11 in
Powerful Makonde Portrait Helmet Mask Lip Plug Tanzania Early 20th Century
Located in Point Richmond, CA
bones in the form of a finely carved helmet mask, with attached hair on top from Tanzania, East Africa
Category
Mid-20th Century Tanzanian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Striking Makonde Animal Helmet Mask, Dog or Hyena, Tanzania, Early 20th C.
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Striking Makonde animal helmet mask, dog or hyena, Tanzania. Early 20th century with dark patina
Category
Early 20th Century Tanzanian Tribal Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Wood
H 10.5 in W 8 in D 10.5 in
Hand Carved Wooden Makonde Mask from Mozambique, Tanzania, circa 1950s
Located in New York, NY
Hand carved wooden Makonde Mask From Mozambique, Tanzania Circa 1950s. Mozambican Makonde masks
Category
Mid-20th Century Mozambican Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Makonde Mask Helmet, Africa, Early 20th Century
By Makonde People
Located in Saint-Amans-des-Cots, FR
Makonde helmet mask , Tanzania, Africa, early 20th century. Woman's face with a lip plug. The young
Category
Early 20th Century Tanzanian Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Wood
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Makonde Mask, Tanzania East Africa, Early 20th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Makonde mask, Tanzania, East Africa early 20th century
Dimension: 23 x 15 x 25 cm
Dimension with
Category
Early 20th Century Tanzanian Tribal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Exceptional Makonde Mask on Stand
By Makonde People
Located in 3 Oaks, MI
Incredibly expressive and very simple Makonde carved wood mask on stand.
Great wear and subtle
Category
Early 20th Century Tanzanian Tribal Tribal Art
Vintage Well Carved Maconde Helmet Mask, Mozambique or Tanzania Mid 20th C
Located in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
This expressive Maconde Helmet mask from Mozambique or Tanzania (the Maconde people live in both
Category
Mid-20th Century Mozambican Tribal Masks
Materials
Wood
Nyamezi Mask from Tanzania
Located in Long Island City, NY
Nyamezi mask from Tanzania.
Category
20th Century Tanzanian Mounted Objects
Materials
Steel
WOOD AFRICAN MASK
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A VERY SIMPLE AND INTERESTING WOOD AFRICAN MASK MOUNTED ON A LUCITE FRAME.
Category
20th Century Tanzanian Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood, Paint
CEREMONIAL WOOD AFRICAN MASK WITH BIRD
Located in Los Angeles, CA
GREAT LONG AFRICAN MASK WITH AND EXOTIC BIRD ON TOP.MOUNTED ON LINEN AND WOOD CARVED FRAME.
Category
20th Century Tanzanian Decorative Objects
African Fertility Body Mask, Wall Hanging
Located in Stow on the Wold, GB
A wonderful fertility body mask dating from the mid-20th century. Hand sculptured from wood and
Category
20th Century Tanzanian Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Makonde Tribal Belly Mask
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Belly mask used in ritual coming of age dances.
Category
20th Century Tanzanian Masks
Makonee Body Mask
Located in Los Angeles, CA
the body plate represents the agony and beauty of childbirth. it has an almost greenish patina within the darkness of the wood.
Category
Early 20th Century Tanzanian Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Torso/mask
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Makonde body mask Tanzania - fertility piece
Category
Antique 19th Century African Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
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Weathered Archaic Bambara Wood Mask Fragment, Mali, Africa, Early 20th C.
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Add a piece of African history to your home. This is large and evocative of ancient times and ceremonies. Weathered wood mask fragment, Bambara people, Mali, Africa, late 19th-early ...
Category
Early 20th Century Malian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Mid-20th Century Globular Vessel, Mangbetu People, D. R. Congo
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Mid-20th Century Globular Vessel, Mangbetu People, D. R. Congo
An unusually large and striking non-figurative vessel from the Mangbetu people, comprised of six lobes joined to a c...
Category
Mid-20th Century Congolese Tribal Urns
Materials
Ceramic
African Tribal Yoruba, Nigeria Rider Figure Offering Bowl Early 20th Century
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Early Yoruba offering bowl in the from of a male figure with a beard riding on horse back surrounded by four small attendants, finely carved with nice patina from native use. Probabl...
Category
Early 20th Century Nigerian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Wool
Antique Polychrome African Wood Carving from Igbo Nigeria
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Antique Polychrome Wood Carving Igbo Nigeria Africa, Staff decorated with two figures, mounted as a finial on the shaft terminating in a triangular-shaped polychrome element Nigeria,...
Category
1910s Tribal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint
SENUFO Woman
Located in Three Oaks, MI
“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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Tribal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
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 Tribal Art
Materials
Metal
Early 20th Century African Antique Wood Comb with Human Head
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Early 20th Century African Antique Wood Comb with Human Head
From the Chokwe Culture of Angola. A fine, old, much used comb with a glossy, glasslike patina. Of traditional form with...
Category
Early 20th Century Angolan Other Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
African Tribal Statue Osseyba or Reliquary Figure Kota Mohongwe Peoples Art
Located in Miami, FL
A fantastically hand-crafted piece by the Kota (or Bakota) tribe who are located in the northeastern region of Gabon. This figure, which is a Mahongwe reliquary figure as exhibited w...
Category
Early 20th Century Gabonese Tribal Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Brass, Copper
H 25.75 in W 7 in D 5.5 in
Standing Akan Ghana Tribal Female Figure Early 20th Century Africa, Black Hair
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Akan, Ghana, shrine figure, a standing female figure with black hair and details, remains of white pigment, with arms out holding a bottle, includes custom metal base. Probably a fig...
Category
Early 20th Century Ghanaian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
H 15.5 in W 5 in D 5 in
Vintage African Wood and Shell Mask
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Intriguing good looking mask artistically made of combination of hand crafted beads ,shells , and hand painted wood. To make such a exceptional object of art for display.
Custom-mad...
Category
Vintage 1970s African Tribal Masks
Materials
Shell, Wood, Beads
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 wood base total height ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Congolese Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Organic Material, Wood
H 13.25 in W 6.5 in D 4 in
Strong Cubist Lobi Standing Figure One Arm Out Ghana, Africa Early 20th Century
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Finely carved large geometric figure from the Lobi, of Ghana and Burkina Faso, dating from the early to mid-20th century. It has a captivating intense gaze and one arm folded on ches...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ghanaian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
H 22.5 in W 9 in D 4 in
Strong Cubist Lobi Standing Figure Ghana Burkina Faso Africa Early 20th Century
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Finely carved large geometric figure from the Lobi, of Ghana and Burkina Faso, dating from the early to mid-20th century. It has a large head with projecting eyes, nose and mouth cre...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ghanaian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
H 22 in W 5 in D 4.5 in
Weathered Old Tribal Squatting Spring Figure, Nepal, Early 20th Century praying
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Old weathered tribal squatting spring figure with hands raised in namaste position, traces of clay and incrustation, expressive carved open mouth and eyes. These were protective figu...
Category
Early 20th Century Nepalese Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
H 17 in W 4.5 in D 4 in
Very Important “Nwantantay” African Dance Mask
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Very important “Nwantamtay” dance African mask, consisting of three sections: The upper in plain rectangular shape surmounted by a crescent shape moon, the middle with beautiful geom...
Category
Early 20th Century Burkinabe Primitive Masks
Materials
Wood
Old Igbo Helmet Mask, Agbogho Mmuo Masquerade
Located in Torquay, GB
A superb Igbo Nigeria helmet mask 'Agbogho Mmuo" or Maiden Spirit.
Worn as masqurades during funerals, cleansing rituals, harvest festivals, weddings and other such occasions .
Igb...
Category
Early 20th Century Nigerian Tribal Masks
Materials
Wood, Paint
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Find many varieties of an authentic Tanzania mask available at 1stDibs. Frequently made of wood and paint, every Tanzania mask was constructed with great care. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect Tanzania mask — we have versions that date back to the 20th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. When you’re browsing for the right Tanzania mask, those designed in styles are of considerable interest. You’ll likely find more than one Tanzania mask that is appealing in its simplicity, but Makonde People produced versions that are worth a look.
How Much is a Tanzania Mask?
Prices for a Tanzania mask start at $438 and top out at $14,000 with the average selling for $1,750.
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