African Dan Passport Family Mask - Carved Wooden Mask from West Africa
Located in Chicago, IL
Created and used from the late 19th century into the 20th century, Dan passport masks served as personal talismans with spiritual connection and as portable identification symbol rep...
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African Dan Passport Family Mask - Carved Wooden Mask from West Africa, Liberia
Located in Chicago, IL
Created and used from the late 19th century into the 20th century, Dan passport masks served as personal talismans with spiritual connection and as portable identification symbol rep...
Wood
African Dan Passport Family Mask - Carved Wooden Mask from West Africa, Liberia
Located in Chicago, IL
Created and used from the late 19th century into the 20th century, Dan passport masks served as personal talismans with spiritual connection and as portable identification symbol rep...
Wood
African Dan Passport Family Mask - Carved Wooden Mask from West Africa, Liberia
Located in Chicago, IL
Created and used from the late 19th century into the 20th century, Dan passport masks served as personal talismans with spiritual connection and as portable identification symbol rep...
Wood
Expressive Early Classic Cubist Dan Mask Early 20th Century Liberia, ex Sothebys
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Expressive early classic cubist Dan mask with refined expressive look, narrow open eyes and mouth and fine line scarification marks around outside of face. Created early 20th century by the Dan People...
Wood
A Powerful Female ‘Bakorozai’ Initiation Mask
Located in London, GB
A Powerful Female ‘Bakorozai’ Initiation Mask The brown patina testifies to the ritual use and great age of this rare mask Wood Loma / Guerze-Kpelle, Liberia Late 19th Century ...
Wood
Kumba Karna Masks, Indonesian, Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
These Kumba Karna Masks are tribal decorative objects realized in the Indonesian island of Bali, during the second half of the 20th century. Dimensions: cm 19 x 20. Traditional...
Wood
$892
H 12.6 in W 7.09 in D 6.3 in
20th Century Antique Carved Wooden Face Mask, African Folk Art. Hangable.Decorat
Located in Berlin, DE
20th Century Antique Carved Wooden Face Mask, African Folk Art. Hangable.Decorative Solid wood, hand-carved, Africa probably 20th century The face ...
Wood
$893
H 15.75 in W 8.67 in D 7.09 in
20th Century Antique Carved Wooden Face Mask, African Folk Art. Hangable.Decorat
Located in Berlin, DE
20th Century Antique Carved Wooden Face Mask, African Folk Art. Hangable.Decorative Solid wood, hand-carved, Africa probably century The face mask ...
Wood
Mid 20th Century Hand Carved African Fertility Mask, Akan People
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A very decorative fertility mask by the Baule tribe, associated with the Akan people who live both in Ghana and in the Ivory Coast. The sides with three...
Wood
Nocturnal Bird Mask, Nigeria, Africa, circa 1950
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Very beautiful mask with large pronounced eyes with the circular cavity shape. The mask depicts a nocturnal bird that can see in the darkness and manifest the presence of divinities ...
Wood
$900Sale Price|40% Off
H 9.5 in W 8 in D 10 in
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...
Wood
Early 20th Century Large Tribal Shield
Located in Sheffield, MA
Highly decorative and impressive shields from the buttress-like roots and/or trunks of mangrove trees. The soft mangrove wood is well suited to be proces...
Wood
$3,450
H 16 in W 8.5 in D 7 in
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...
Wood
$1,225Sale Price|41% Off
H 31 in W 12 in D 20 in
Salampasu Mask – DR Congo – Mid 20th Century – African Tribal Art
Located in Ljubljana, SI
Discover the soul of Africa through this authentic Salampasu mask from DR Congo, handcrafted in the mid-20th century. Part of a carefully curated collec...
Hardwood
20th Century Antique Carved Wood Mask, African Art
Located in Berlin, DE
20th Century Antique Carved Wood Mask, African Art Solid wood, hand-carved, Africa probably century Very decorative. Comes from a Berlin private collection.
Wood
3 Mid-Century Tesselated Stone Aztec Masks
Located in Queens, NY
3 Mid-Century modern pre-columbian style Aztec masks made with various tesselated semi-precious stone (lapis,onyx, quartz, mother-of-pearl) (PRICED EACH)
Lapis Lazuli, Onyx, Quartz
$4,950
H 16 in W 10 in D 8 in
Very Large Powerful Dan Guere We Mask Tubular Eyes Ivory Coast Africa ex Fearing
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Very large powerful Dan Guere or We mask from the Ivory Coast Africa ex Fearing collection. Strong mask with projecting tubular eyes, projecting carved wood tusks over forehead, lar...
Wood
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H 4 in W 2 in D 1.25 in
African Dan Passport Family Mask - Carved Wooden Mask from West Africa, Liberia
Located in Chicago, IL
Created and used from the late 19th century into the 20th century, Dan passport masks served as personal talismans with spiritual connection and as portable identification symbol rep...
Wood
Liberia Bassa Mask
Located in Chicago, IL
Covered with an extraordinary black crusted patina, this wooden Liberian mask was hand-crafted in the style of the Bassa ethnic group. Bassa communities have a number of rich masking...
Wood, Paint
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H 14.75 in W 9.5 in D 10 in
Finely Carved Dark Wood Bassa Helmet Mask Liberia Early 20th Century Provenance
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Very finely carved blackened wood helmet mask from the Bassa people in Liberia. Early 20th century with great crested hairstyle with rows of braids on side...
Wood
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H 14 in W 7.5 in D 5.5 in
Very Large Strong Expressive Cubist Dan Mask Early 20th Century Liberia, Africa
Located in Point Richmond, CA
A very large old cubist Dan wood mask with strong expressive look, angular cheeks, with powerfully carved mouth. Created early 20th century by the Dan People of Liberia and Cote d'Iv...
Wood
Dan Wooden Bowl from Liberia
Located in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
Dan wood food bowl from Liberia.
Hardwood
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H 9.5 in W 5 in D 3.75 in
Early Bassa Wood Mask, Ex James Willis, Early 20th Century, Liberia, Africa
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Early Bassa carved wood mask, ex James Willis, San Francisco, CA. Early 20th century, heavy patina from native use, some small areas of damage. James Will...
Wood
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H 9.75 in W 5 in D 2.5 in
Bassa Tribal Wood Dance Mask with Geometric Features, Early 20th Century, Africa
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Well-used Bassa dance mask, thin and elegant wood carving with geometric features that would have been attached to a much larger dance costume. The Bassa are from Liberia, West Afric...
Wood
Late 19th-Early 20th Century Tribal Gola Helmet Mask, Liberia
Located in New York, NY
This impressive Gola helmet mask immediately captures the gaze with its dramatic vertical movement, leading the eye to rest on its finial, which depicts a woman with a high forehead ...
Wood
Stone Tribal Bassa Mask, Liberia
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Stone tribal Bassa mask, Liberia Rare stone mask from the Bassa people of Liberia, known examples included in the Yale archive. Ex- Mort Dimondstein collec...
Stone
Dan Chair with Double Hourglass Legs
Located in Chicago, IL
The slight retractions to the seat and double hourglass legs mark this as a traditional chair made by the Dan people of Liberia. The moon-sliver backrest and low seat helped women to...
Wood
Late 19th or Early 20th Century Tribal Bassa Mask, Liberia
Located in New York, NY
A great sense of mass imbues this Bassa mask, imposing with its classically large brow, full cheeks, and heavy, almond-shaped silhouette. As the face sinks ...
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Late 19th Century Tribal Bassa Mask
Located in New York, NY
Bearing the deeply indented profile so Classic in Bassa masks, this superbly carved piece shows finely executed facial features, prominent cheekbones, and a...
Wood
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