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Antique Congolese African Tribal Carved Hemba Helmet Mask, Suku Peoples
Located in Forney, TX
A scarce antique African tribal carved Hemba helmet mask, the Suku peoples, possibly Kwese culture, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa, early 20th century, surmounted by four-legged animal, over round face, with mouth ajar and incised jagged teeth exposed, protruding almond shaped eyes, scattered remnants of pigment, full raffia fiber fringe, mounted on wood stand.
A superb museum quality example, this remarkable tribal folk art sculpture is a wonderful way to add rustic warmth, rich historical depth, and fascinating cultural interest to any space!
Dimensions: (approx)
Overall: 26" High, 9" Wide, 10.25" Deep;
Mask only: 15" Tall;
7 lbs total
Provenance / Acquisition:
Acquired from the highly reputable auction house, Austin Auction Gallery, est.1983, Austin, Texas.
Excellent Condition:
Nicely aged distressed patina over the whole. Highly desirable wear consistent with age and indicative of use, including scattered losses, antique character marks and typical signs of aging throughout. Retaining scattered remnants of original pigment. Overall a superb museum quality example
Primitive Arts Of Africa:
Among the Suku of the southwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, masks plays crucial role in protecting boys during initiation, the vulnerable period between boyhood and manhood. The power contained in Hemba masks...
Category
Early 20th Century Congolese Tribal Raffia Decorative Objects
Materials
Raffia, Wood
Round Woven Decorative or Laundry Basket
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A lovely woven basket - a nice decorative piece or can be used for laundry or rags? the piece is woven and great for occasional use. Strong enough for linens, but we would not sug...
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20th Century Raffia Decorative Objects
Materials
Raffia, Rattan
Ceramic Face Mask Wall Sculpture
Located in Attleboro, MA
A true embodiment of the Artist's style of combining different mediums, this wall sculpture echoes a festive moment in time, Drawing inspiration from the Artist's moroccan roots. This sculpture is an hommage to the talented women weavers of Morocco that the artist got to meet on her last weaving in retreat in Marrakech.
This wall hanging shaped out of hand wrapped manila rope using naturally dyed recycled silk yarn, sisal and. raffia. The ceramic face...
Category
2010s Tribal Raffia Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Silk, Hemp, Raffia
N. Ghana Woven Basket with Leather Handle, Gurune People of Bolgaronga
Located in Miami, FL
N. Ghana Woven Basket with Leather Handle, Gurune People of Bolgaronga
Offered for sale is a hand-woven basket with leather handle from the Gurune people of Bolgaronga North Ghana. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Ghanaian Raffia Decorative Objects
Materials
Leather, Raffia
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Located in Pietrasanta, IT
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Ceramic Face Mask Wall Tapestry
Located in Attleboro, MA
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Materials
Ceramic, Silk, Hemp, Raffia
Funky Vintage Sewing Basket, Mid-Century Design
Located in Delray Beach, FL
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Hand Embroidered Raffia and Silk Pillow by Miguel Cisterna, France, 2013
Located in New York, NY
Equally elegant and exotic, Miguel Cisterna’s works imbue the classical French tradition of fine embroidery with a modern sensibility. His hand sewn, labor intensive designs layer co...
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21st Century and Contemporary French Raffia Decorative Objects
Materials
Silk, Raffia
French Moroccan Straw Basket Tote Bag with Piped Leather Handles
Located in North Hollywood, CA
French Moroccan Straw Basket Tote Bag with Silver Leather Handles.
Large vintage organic shopping raffia bag, or beach bag.
Handcrafted in Morocco using natural organic 100% natural palm leaves
While straw trends always dominate Spring & Summer, the natural wheat straw French Moroccan basket stands out as a symbol of eco-consciousness and ethical values and is in always in style.
Whether you're headed to the beach or a picnic, or to the Farmers Market, this braided straw basket is the ideal basket and large enough to hold a lot.
Size : 26 in wide on top, 13 in at the bottom.
10 in depth x 12 in height for the basket
Total height with the handles: 18 in height.
The handle are 5 inches.
Handcrafted in Marrakech Morocco mostly for the European, Italian, Spain and French market, French women use this style bag on the beaches of St Tropez, Cannes, Italian coast and Ibiza, light and easy to carry.
Gucci was so inspired by the Moroccan Basket than they created a similar beach straw beach bag...
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan French Provincial Raffia Decorative Objects
Materials
Leather, Straw, Raffia
Ô-CULT TOTEM by Richard Yasmine
Located in Geneve, CH
Ô-CULT TOTEM by Richard Yasmine
Materials: Powder coated st.steel, blackened brass, neo cement on st.steel & raffia tassels
Dimensions: Height 120 x diameter 40 cm.
Ô-CULT our latest commissioned design piece for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy curated by La Triennale di Milano design Museum, a social design project related to the use of water for the exhibition titled “The shapes of Water”.
Water, one of the elements that make up everything in this world. The symbolism of water has a universal trace of purity and fertility, it is the source of life since the ancient cultures and considered an aspect of wisdom that takes the form in which it is held. It does not resist, it flows, but always goes where it wants to go to fill empty spaces.
As water is becoming rare yet more and more precious due to the environmental problems such as global warming, pollution, climate changes etc… our concept, to create a fantastic water safe taking the shape of a mascot /Genie imitating the authentic type of liquid containers descending since the Neolithic period till the ancient Roman era passing by our heritage but definitely in a contemporary Silhouette using multiple materials. In addition to the shape, providing a faucet, using the whole component as a useful water dispenser...
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2010s Lebanese Modern Raffia Decorative Objects
Materials
Cement, Brass, Steel
Scandinavian Modern Teak & Raffia Candleholders Attrib Laurids Lonborg, Denmark
Located in Miami, FL
Fantastic pair of Scandinavian Mid-Century Modern Teak & Raffia 1960s candleholders. Purchased in Sweden in the 1980s. Made of solid turned teak and handle with wrapped raffia.
Me...
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1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raffia Decorative Objects
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Carl Auböck Midcentury Raffia Umbrella Stand, Wastepaper Basket, 1950s, Austria
Located in Biebergemund, Hessen
Very rare simple and elegant midcentury umbrella stand or wastepaper basket designed by Carl Auböck II and manufactured by Werkstätten Auböck in the 1950s, Austria. It's made of raff...
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1950s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raffia Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
Hand Woven Rice Basket with Wooden Frame and Handle
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A hand woven and hand crafted Rice Basket. Woven with Rattan and framed in wood with bamboo. A very solid and well thought out and well made piece, late 19th / Early 20th Century Basket.
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Freevolle Sculpture Feminine Table Lamp, silver raffia art silvered glass
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Mid Century Modern Vintage Raffia Sisal Brown Orange Basket Austria 1950s
Located in Vienna, AT
Mid Century Modern organic vintage basket or paper basket from raffia or sisal in brown and orange colors manufactured Austria 1950s.
The basket shows beautiful woven network in smo...
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Located in Lisbon, PT
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Located in Lisbon, PT
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Located in Lisbon, PT
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Jambo artisanal vase in colorful salvaged rubber
Located in Roma, IT
From the newest secondome collection, Can You Imagine?, the Jambo artisanal vase collection in colorful upcycled rubber.
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Located in Roma, IT
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20th Century Handwoven Soft African Bolga Shopping Basket With Leather Handle
Located in Red Lion, PA
20th Century Handwoven African Bolga Basket with Leather Handle
This beautifully handwoven 20th-century Bolga basket is a soft-formed, organic piece made in the Bolgatanga region of...
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Decorative Brazilian Indian Ceremonial Mask on Stand
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Decorative Brazilian Indian ceremonial mask on stand.
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Late 20th Century Brazilian Primitive Raffia Decorative Objects
Materials
Steel
Katherine Westphal Big Sky Signed Raffia Woven Basket w/ Feather Accents 1994
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
"Big Sky" is a striking raffia woven basket with feather accents, skillfully crafted by the acclaimed artist Katherine Westphal in 1994. This sign...
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Freevolle Sculpture Feminine Table Lamp, Brass white raffia art silvered glass
Located in Pietrasanta, IT
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Located in Lisbon, PT
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Located in Lisbon, PT
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DOOQ! NEW! Mid-Century Modern ceramic Thabit Grape Wall Decor
By DOOQ
Located in Lisbon, PT
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DOOQ! NEW! Mid-Century Modern ceramic Thabit I Wall Decor
By DOOQ
Located in Lisbon, PT
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By DOOQ
Located in Lisbon, PT
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DOOQ! NEW! Mid-Century Modern ceramic Thabit III Wall Decor
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Located in Lisbon, PT
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Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brown Raffia Brass Paper Basket, 1950s, Vienna
Located in Vienna, AT
Mid-Century Modern vintage brown raffia and brass paper basket, or basket, which was designed and hand made, 1950s, Vienna, Austria.
The natural ra...
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Raffia
Hand Embroidered Raffia and Linen Cotton Pillow by Miguel Cisterna, France, 2013
Located in New York, NY
Equally elegant and exotic, Miguel Cisterna’s works imbue the classical French tradition of fine embroidery with a modern sensibility. His hand sewn, labor intensive designs layer contrasting materials to create one-of-a-kind haute couture embroidered textiles. Raffia is wrought into shafts of wheat gently bending into the wind, insects crafted from wire and shell hover and crawl, floral designs sparkle with crystal embellishments, and the fragile elegance of humanity is made apparent through anatomical drawings in thread.
Born in Chile, Miguel Cisterna now lives and works in Paris. Prior to opening his Parisian atelier, Cisterna was the former Creative Director for Ateliers Brocard, the firm that fabricated Napoleon’s coronation...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Raffia Decorative Objects
Materials
Raffia, Cotton, Linen
Selamawi Ceramic Vessel by TheUrbanative
Located in Geneve, CH
Selamawi ceramic vessel by TheUrbanative
Dimensions: W 25 x D 10 x H 24 cm
Material: Raw Terracotta & Raffia
Dry flowers only.
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2010s South African Post-Modern Raffia Decorative Objects
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Set of 2, Selamawi Candelabra & Vessel by TheUrbanative
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2, Selamawi candelabra & vessel by TheUrbanative
One of a Kind
Dimensions: W 40 x D 40 x H 40 cm
Material: Terracotta: Raw & Raffia
TheUrbanative is a contemporary Sou...
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2010s South African Post-Modern Raffia Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Raffia
Large Woven Sculptural Vase
Located in London, England
by Gone Rural, Swaziland, 2012
Titled 'The Song of the Weaver'
Various basket-weaving techniques and materials, including copper wire
With metal tag 'The Song of the Weaver'
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Swazi Raffia Decorative Objects
Materials
Cotton, Raffia, Reed
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