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Style: Tribal
Reclaimed Wood Tofu Grinder Sculpture, Mid 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
A unique tofu grinder sculpture, hand-carved out of a single large piece of reclaimed wood. From Indonesia, circa 1950. Original untouched color. The hole...
Category
1950s Indonesian Vintage Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Reclaimed Wood
$1,755 Sale Price
35% Off
Pair of hand-carved wooden woman/man bust statues - 20th
Located in Linkebeek, BE
Pair of hand-carved wooden woman/man bust statues - 20th
bookend - Art - Tribal
Measures : 23,5x15cm H:44,5cm
Wear consistent with age and use : see photos
Category
20th Century Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
African Bronze Tribal Style Bust from Cameroon, 20th Century, Great Patina
Located in Miami, FL
African Bronze Tribal Style Bust from Cameroon, 20th Century, Great Patina
Offered for sale is large life-size cast bronze African bust from Cameroon. The bust has great details a...
Category
20th Century Cameroonian Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Indonesian Reclaimed Wood Tofu Grinder Sculpture, Mid 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
A unique tofu grinder sculpture, hand-carved out of a single large piece of reclaimed wood. From Indonesia, circa 1950. Original untouched color.
Category
1950s Indonesian Vintage Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Reclaimed Wood
$1,750 Sale Price
30% Off
19th Century Hammer Currency, Ensuba, Bafia People, Cameroon
Located in Point Richmond, CA
19th century hammer currency, Ensuba, Bafia People, Cameroon
Sometimes referred to as potato masher currency, but known to the Bafia people as ensuba,...
Category
Late 19th Century Cameroonian Antique Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Wood Diamond Pan from Borneo, on Stand
Located in New York, NY
A late 19th century diamond pan from West Kalimantan, in the island of Borneo.
At the heart of the Dayak territory, the rivers produced diamonds known for their singular colors. Ho...
Category
1890s Indonesian Antique Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
$980 Sale Price
20% Off
Yam Ancestor Figure TOTEM Pole Papua New Guinea with Provenance
Located in Atlanta, GA
A yam ancestor TOTEM pole from the mid-Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea. Carved out of a solid wood by the Abelam people, who cultivated yams as their main crop, the pole featu...
Category
Early 20th Century Papua New Guinean Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
African Mangbetu Ceremonial Jug
Located in Chicago, IL
The Mangbetu people focused on highly realistic art forms. From the spout formed to look like hair, through the face, and down to the gourd shaped base, this jug seamlessly transitio...
Category
Early 20th Century Congolese Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Antique Mexican Four-Legged Ritual Bowl with Embossed Aztec Warrior Motifs
Located in West Hollywood, CA
A rare and exceptional example of late 19th to early 20th-century Mexican folk metalwork, this antique ceremonial bowl is meticulously handcrafted from solid copper and richly adorne...
Category
Early 20th Century Mexican Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Copper
African Nigeria Epa Helmit Mask with Provenance
Located in Atlanta, GA
An Epa helmet mask, Nigeria, Africa.
Fully carved mother and child; painted red and black with touches of white;
Provenance: The Children's Museum of Indianapolis; The Eiteljorg Mu...
Category
1950s Nigerian Vintage Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
African Helmet Mask 'Gelede' from Yoruba Nigeria
Located in San Francisco, CA
Blacked wood helmet mask (Gelede), large human head surmounted by a dog eating a snake which curves around the head. No perforation for attachment to costu...
Category
20th Century Nigerian Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Early 20th Century Belu "Female" Door from Timor Island
Located in Atlanta, GA
An early 20th century carved wood door panel from Timor Island in the Indonesian archipelago. This antique wall panel from Timor Island (an isl...
Category
20th Century Indonesian Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal
Caribbean Carved Wood Painted Sculptures
Located in Miami, FL
Caribbean Carved Wood Painted Sculptures
Offered for sale is a pair of carved wood and painted Caribbean sculptures of elongated women. These 20th-century carvings show the Afro-Car...
Category
Late 20th Century Caribbean Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
$395 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Carved Wooden Primitive Bowl.
Located in Long Island City, NY
Carved Wooden Primitive Bowl.
Category
20th Century Unknown Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Metallic Studded Bambara Figure by Brian Stanziale
Located in Chicago, IL
In an exclusive collaboration with pagoda red, Chicago artist the bms. adds a contemporary twist to our collection of one-of-a-kind African art objects. Guided by its geometric line work, the bms. uses...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Malian Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal
Boho Chic Moroccan Inlaid Bone Jewelry Chest or Box with Brass Inlay
Located in Plainview, NY
A decorative handmade orange bone and black tribal design chest or jewelry box. The chest interior is leather and features gorgeous brass inlay design with natural decorative stones.
Category
1980s Moroccan Vintage Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
Zulu Wood Double Head Rest Stylized Human Figure, South Africa
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Zulu carved wood double headrest with stylized human figure in middle, from South Africa.
In stylized human form within a pair of vertical columns, with triangle arms and legs and he...
Category
Mid-20th Century South African Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Early 20th Century Sago Peg, Abelam/Wosera People, Papua New Guinea
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Sago peg, tapak, Abelam/Wosera people, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
Sago pegs are used to secure a screen mesh during the preparation of sago flour. This example depicts a ...
Category
Early 20th Century Papua New Guinean Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Shell
Songye Female Large Wood Kifwebe Mask with White, Black, Provenance, DRC Africa
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Carved wood large female Songye Kifwebe mask with classic white lines, blackened ridge down crest of forehead, nose and mouth. Worn holes around back edge of mask from attachment of...
Category
Mid-20th Century Congolese Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Traditional sculpture originating from the Democratic Republic of Congo
Located in Linkebeek, BE
Traditional sculpture originating from the Democratic Republic of Congo
Tribal Art - Congo - African
Measures : 16x17cm H:82cm
Traditional sculpture from the Democratic Republic of ...
Category
Early 20th Century African Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Old Papua New Guinea Male Ancestral Figure
Located in Rochester, NY
Papua New Guinea standing male ancestral figure. Hand carved from a single piece of wood. Beautiful old pigmented surface w/ finely decorated facial features and shell eyes. Good sig...
Category
Mid-20th Century Papua New Guinean Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Shell, Wood
1995 Bronze Sculpture by Héctor Nájera, Mexico, Edition 10/55, Signed
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Expressive and poetic cast bronze sculpture by celebrated Mexican artist Héctor Nájera (b. 1931, Monterrey, Mexico), signed and dated “Nájera / 1995” and numbered 10/55 from a limite...
Category
1990s Mexican Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Vintage Leather Tribal Chinese Winter Boots on Custom Iron Stand
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pair of vintage Chinese winter boots on stand. This is a pair of Chinese leather winter boots that have been displayed on a custom black iron Stand. The boots are from the people b...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Iron
$396 Sale Price
20% Off
Horned Antelope Human Dark Wood Mask Dan People Ivory Coast Africa Open Eyes
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Carved blackened wood horned antelope - human mask Dan People Ivory Coast, Africa. Two vertical horns probably representing a young antelope, large open round eyes and projecting li...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ivorian Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Late 19th Cent. Kuba Drum W Honey Brown Patina - Harry Franklin Collection
Located in Culver City, CA
A tall and elegant wood pedestal drum with a fully-carved face on the side, and two registers of incised linear designs above and below. It has an absolutely gorgeous honey-brown pa...
Category
Late 19th Century Congolese Antique Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
$7,840 Sale Price
34% Off
Decorative African Bronze Fish from the Tribal People of Benin
Located in Miami, FL
A unique intricately detailed hand-hammered bronze of a fish.
Bursting with character, this marine life mythical decorative object would enhance any shelf or tabletop.
This object form is one of the best-known examples of Benin art, created from the thirteenth century onwards, by the Edo people, which also included other sculptures in brass, including some famous portrait heads and smaller pieces of art.
Tribal African Art...
Category
20th Century Beninese Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
$1,320 Sale Price
44% Off
Malian Chiwara female antelope headdress on a custom stand, c. 1900
Located in Kenilworth, IL
A bold wood headdress of a female antelope, an iconic ritual figure in the Bamana society of Mali in West Africa. The Chiwara antelope is a ritual object worn as a headpiece during ceremonial dances held at sowing and harvest. The dance is performed with paired male...
Category
Early 20th Century Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wool
Embosed Metal Kirdi Shield from Cameroon on Bronze Stand
Located in Stamford, CT
A rare repuse shield with natural fiber wraped handle from the Kirdi tribe Cameroon. Now on a patinated Bronze Stand.
For a similar example please see- Benitez-Johannot, Purissim...
Category
20th Century Cameroonian Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal
20th c. Oversized Aged Handmade Bowl
Located in Saint Petersburg, FL
Handmade bowl visible signs of age and use.
Dimensions: 16." w x 5.5" h x 16." d.
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Antique Dogon Forged Iron Horse and Rider Figure, Mali, Africa
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Dogon forged iron horse with figure. figure wears a crested hat and has one hand on reins, the other curved up in the air for balance.
It is in good condition, appropriate for its a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Malian Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Iron
Large Patinated Memorial Cast Bronze Benin Bust
Located in Pasadena, TX
Very good cast of a Benin bonze head, probably mid 20th century
From the Benin Tribe of Africa comes this beautiful bronze head
Category
20th Century Beninese Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Tribal Drink Vessel Leather Milk Jug 1 African Arts
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Tribal Drink Vessel African Leather Milk Jug 1
10 x 6.5 diameter
Original vintage condition
Refer to images listed
Category
Early 20th Century Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Leather
Bronze Lion Oil Lamp, India, 19th Century
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Indian bronze oil lamp in the form of the lion Vahana of the Goddess Durga. The head screws off for filling with oil. There is a hole at the top...
Category
19th Century Indian Antique Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Carved Family Statue, Tribal, Hardstone, Decorative Ornament, circa 1960
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage carved family statue. A tirbal African, polished hardstone decorative ornament, dating to the mid 20th century, circa 1960.
Beautifu...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mozambican Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Stone
Papua New Guinean Polychromed Carved Figure
Located in Queens, NY
Papua New Guinean carved polychromed ancestral figure with fiber and shell detail
Category
20th Century Unknown Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Chrome
African Wooden Headrest
Located in Chicago, IL
This headrest comes from 20th century Kenya, hand-carved from one piece of indigenous wood. Headrests held great value to North Western nomadic pastoral tribes of Kenya as they have ...
Category
20th Century Kenyan Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Leather, Wood
Ethiopian Wood Head Rest With Silver White Metal Beads and Dangles, Africa
Located in Point Richmond, CA
An old well used Ethiopian head rest with attached oxidized silver or white metal beads and dangles.
It is in good condition with wear, polish and eros...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ethiopian Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Rare Gabon Mask From Tsogho Peoples with Character, Central Africa
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Early and rare mask from Gabon, Central Africa, created by the Tsogho peoples. Powerful large mask with carved open eyes, and black painted eyes above, below heavy carved eyebrows. ...
Category
Early 20th Century Gabonese Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Namji Doll with Beads, Cowries, Coins and Metal Rings, Cameroon Mid 20th century
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Sometimes referred to as dolls, this is a highly abstract figure with conical head, arms and legs held out from body, long columnar neck wrapped with mulitple strands of different si...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cameroonian Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Large Seated Maitreya, Lacquered wWod, 20th Century
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Large Seated Maitreya, lacquered wood, 20thcentury
Maitreya Bodhisatva, seated in a pedestal, with one leg on top of the other, draped robes and a large halo. One hand is almost tou...
Category
20th Century Japanese Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Tessellated Faux Horn & Wood Round Box
Located in Stamford, CT
Round tessellated faux horn box with wood lining. No makers mark or signature
Category
1980s American Vintage Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Lot of Two Indian Terracotta Figures
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Lot of two Indian terracotta figures.
Lucknow, India, 19th Century.
Painted terracotta figures, depicting a female pottery seller
and a male flow...
Category
19th Century Indian Antique Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Terracotta
African Congo Fetish Statue, Houses Spirits for Protection, Late 20th- Century
Located in Miami, FL
African Congo Fetish Statue, Houses Spirits for Protection 20th- Century
Offered for sale is a late 20th-century African tribal fetish statue of a doubl...
Category
Late 20th Century Congolese Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal
Small African Wooden Dough Bowl
Located in Long Island City, NY
A small African wooden dough bowl with a flat opening on one side.
Category
20th Century Ivorian Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Terracotta Djenne (Mali, Africa)
Located in PARIS, FR
Probably 12th-15th century. Djenne from Mali (Africa), beautiful terracotta slip, collar ending in a flared lip, beautiful example.
Tomb object from an ancient Djenne site.
This ev...
Category
17th Century Malian Antique Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Terracotta
Wooden Baoule Maternity Figure, Africa
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Interesting maternity figure in a hieratic pose presenting a young adolescent. Beautiful facial expression, showing wisdom and knowledge. She is sitti...
Category
20th Century Ivorian Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Tribal Early 20th Century Ceremonial Pipe, Bamoun People, Cameroon
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Tribal Early 20th Century Ceremonial Pipe, Bamoun People, Cameroon
A ceremonial tobacco pipe fashioned of hardened clay depicting three bearded men, the center figure with arms on c...
Category
Early 20th Century Cameroonian Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Australian Aboriginal Painting on Hollow Log
Located in Atlanta, GA
Lorrkon hollow log.
Artist: Bronwyn Kelly.
Year of birth: 1974.
Nationality: Australian.
Region: West Central Arnhem Land.
Language group: Kuninjku.
M...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Australian Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Worn and Weathered Tsogho Short Bench with Faces, Gabon, Africa ex Visser
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Worn and weathered Tsogho short bench carved from a single piece of wood, with faces and figures, from Gabon, Africa. Blocky bench with roughly carved out openings, flanked on one s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Nigerien Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
James Tandi African Wild Boar Green Carved Verdite Hardstone Sculpture Figure
Located in Philadelphia, PA
James Tandi African Wild Boar Green Carved Verdite Hardstone Sculpture Figure. Item features an impressive carved verdite hardstone sculpture of a mother w...
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Stone
Ancient Cubist Danced Kuba Mask Black Patina Cone Eyes Congo Africa
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Ancient Cubist Kuba Dance Mask Black Patina, Cone Shaped Eyes, from the Congo, Africa.
It is in good condition with wear, polish and erosion from traditional use, appropriate for it...
Category
Mid-20th Century Congolese Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Powerful Makonde Portrait Helmet Mask Lip Plug Tanzania Early 20th Century
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Powerful portrait of a Makonde man with a traditional lip plug in his upper lip, high carved cheek bones in the form of a finely carved helmet mask, with attached hair on top from Ta...
Category
Mid-20th Century Tanzanian Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
$1,000 Sale Price
33% Off
Small early Kuba Cup With Sweet Face, Fine Hair, Handle DRC, Africa
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Small early Kuba Cup With Sweet Face, Fine Hair, Handle DRC, Africa
Finely carved hair in tight geometric form, small projecting ears. Some damage and wear t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Congolese Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Hiroyuki Nishimura Abstract Sculpture Broad Bean Tribal Style Bookcase
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Broad Bean
Sculpture. Also it can be used as small bookcase.
Material: Zelkova
This work is carved from log with some kinds of chainsaws.
Most of wood used for his works are unable...
Category
2010s Japanese Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Benin King Oba and Queen, Pair of Hand Carved Seated Ebony Figures West African
Located in Rothley, Leicestershire
Charming Benin King Oba and his Queen. Terrific pair of Benin hand carved ebony hardwood figures.
Intricate detailing on each of these super West African carvings
Circa Mid 20th c...
Category
Late 20th Century Beninese Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Ebony
Antique Tapa Tribal Dance Shield, New Guinea
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Tapa dance shield.
Baining People, New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
First half, 20th century
Pounded mulberry bark painted with natural pigments
Measure...
Category
Early 20th Century Papua New Guinean Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Bamboo, Natural Fiber
Tribal Sculpture Male Warrior Figure in the Style of Hagenauer
Located in New York, NY
A small bronze male tribal warrior figure sculpture piece, in the style of Hagenauer, Tribal style, circa 20th century. A male bronze tribal figure holdi...
Category
20th Century Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze, Brass
A Pair of Copper Currencies: “Katanga Crosses”
Located in Point Richmond, CA
A Pair of Copper Currencies: “Katanga Crosses”
Central African Copper Belt (DR Congo, Zambia or Zimbabwe)
Cast copper, archaeological patina
Size each:...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Congolese Antique Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Copper
$3,900 / set
African Tribal Figure
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mounted African tribal figure, used as a door latch in the early 20th century.
Category
20th Century Ivorian Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
$1,250
Dayak "Mother and Child" Ironwood Sculpture, Early 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
A hand-carved effigy of mother and child from the Dayak tribe in Borneo, mounted on a black metal stand.
Ancestral figures were important in Dayak culture as a means of spiritual p...
Category
1910s Indonesian Vintage Tribal Decorative Objects
Materials
Hardwood
$1,280 Sale Price
20% Off
Tribal decorative objects for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Tribal decorative objects for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage decorative objects created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include decorative objects, folk art, asian art and furniture and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, metal and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Tribal decorative objects made in a specific country, there are Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original decorative objects, popular names associated with this style include Andrianna Shamaris, Hiroyuki Nishimura, Zougei, and Benin People. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for decorative objects differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $64 and tops out at $274,500 while the average work can sell for $1,500.
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