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Tribal Art For Sale
Period: Early 20th Century
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Rare Antique Zemmour Moroccan Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A rare mixed technique Berber rug ascribed to the Zemmour people, located in the Moroccan Middle Atlas, originally used as a saddle cover - an item of great prestige among Berber tri...
Category
1920s Moroccan Tribal Vintage Tribal Art
Materials
Wool
Antique stirrer Lower Sepik Papua New Guinea Murik Lakes Ramu Oceanic art Ramu
Located in Leuven, BE
Antique and exceptional stirrer of the Murik Lakes or Schouten Island , Mouth Of The Lower Sepik / Ramu Papua New Guinea Coastal Sepik region
A lovely patina and traces of use.
Lengt...
Category
Early 20th Century Papua New Guinean Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Mentawai Tribe Hand-Carved Wooden Bowl with Handle, c. 1900
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
Crafted from ironwood this Mentawai tribe bowl features a handle and subtle wood detailing. A wonderful decorative bowl or table centrepiece certain to invoke conversation. The Menta...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Other Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Tutsi (Rwanda) prestige bottle with vegetal fibre
Located in Bilzen, BE
An exceptional prestige bottle from the Tutsi tribe (Rwanda), the bottle is decorated with a very fine weaving vegetal fibre (museum quality)
Heigth 33 cm, diameter 7.5 cm
This bott...
Category
Early 20th Century Rwandan Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Natural Fiber, Glass
Kusu wooden ancestor ca 1900 DR Congo Africa Central African Tribal Art
Located in Leuven, BE
Nicely carved Kusu / Congo statue with beautiful face / almond shaped eyes and triangular face with beard. Top of the head is a big hole to charche the po...
Category
Early 20th Century Congolese Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Hardwood
Antique Miao Silver Collar
Located in Pasadena, CA
This an impressive large early 20th century silver collar or neck band in the traditional Miao/Hmong Tribal tradition. The collar is composed of three individual but complementary bands, each designed in an abstract geometric pattern. The collars are mounted on a custom Steel stand. All three collars are in excellent overall condition; no faults have been noted. The Miao are an ethnic minority and are located principally at the intersection of northern Thailand, Laos, Myanmar and China. Silver is highly prized by the Miao who gift silver to their daughters beginning at birth.
**We have had the collar appraised by Honeychurch Antiques...
Category
Early 20th Century Thai Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Silver
Hedle Pulley from the Baoulé / Baule tribe, Ivory Coast
By Baule Tribe
Located in Bilzen, BE
Baoulé / Baule loom hedle pulley from the beginning of the 20th century
Rich tribal patina and using traces
Beautiful stylization of the face
with custom base as shown in the photo...
Category
Early 20th Century Ivorian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Antique Rugs Caucasian Kazak Rugs, Blue Geometric Hand made Carpet
Located in Wembley, GB
Kazak rugs have primarily been produced as village productions rather than city pieces. Made from materials particular to individual tribal provinces and the rugs of the Caucasus typ...
Category
Early 20th Century Caucasian Kazak Tribal Art
Materials
Wool, Natural Fiber, Organic Material
Trio of Early 20th Century South African Xhosa Beaded Aprons Tribal Art
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Of Ethnographical interest, a trio of tribal beaded girls initiation apron from South Africa, likely from the Xhosa people who traditionally lived in the province of Eastern Cape.
H...
Category
Early 20th Century African Tribal Art
Materials
Steel
Tchokwé mask from Angola in wood and pigments - Circa 1900
Located in NICE, FR
Tchokwé mask from Angola once owned by the American Abstract Expressionist artist Merton D. Simpson (1928 - 2013) renowned both for his work and as a dealer and collector of early Af...
Category
Early 20th Century Angolan Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Kaolin, Wood
Antique Persian Pictorial Malayer Rug, Wall Hanging, King of Persia Handmade Rug
Located in Port Washington, NY
Antique Persian pictorial Malayer rug, wall hanging fine Persian wool rug showing the story of the King of Persia, signed and handmade rug. Size: 4'6" x...
Category
Early 20th Century Persian Malayer Tribal Art
Materials
Wool
African Fulani Currency Bracelet, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Characterized by its open shape capped with geometric ends, this bracelet is but one form of the many types of body adornments favored the Fulani people of West Africa. The thick des...
Category
Early 20th Century Nigerien Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Brass
Dogon Ladder, 6-Feet
Located in Dallas, TX
This classically made Dogon ladder is six feet tall and cut from a medium to dark color wood. The 'Y' top is necessary so that the climber may safely lean the ladder against a tree o...
Category
Early 20th Century Malian Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Nigerian Nupe Storage Vessel
Located in Chicago, IL
The Nupe people of Nigeria were known as some of the finest ceramicists in Africa. Everyday objects, like this storage vessel, received detailed attenti...
Category
Early 20th Century Nigerian Primitive Tribal Art
Materials
Terracotta
An exquisite warrior's headdress or 'Kaibauk'
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Amarasi district, Kupang regency, West Timor island, early 20th century
Category
Early 20th Century Timorese Tribal Art
Materials
Metal
Indonesian 'Wayang Kulit" Shadow Puppet, Java, Indonesia, Early 20th Century
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
This flat shadow puppet was crafted on the island of Java by a puppet artist using buffalo hide and mounted on bamboo sticks. It was used in Wayang puppet...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Leather, Wood
Wooden Spice Box, Tribal Engravings & Sliding Top, Nias, Indonesia, c. 1900
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
This spice box comes for the Island of Nias, Indonesia. Dating to the early 20th Century it was crafted from a single block of wood. It features a sliding lid, has an elegant wood te...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Hardwood
Mentawai Tribe Hand-Carved Wooden Bowl with Handle, c. 1900
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
Crafted from ironwood this Mentawai tribe bowl features a handle and subtle wood detailing. A wonderful decorative bowl or table centrepiece certain to invoke conversation. The Menta...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Other Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Hampadong - Kalimantan Tribal Art Carved Figure - Maile with Child
Located in Hawthorne, CA
A carved wooden figure of Maile with child. A Hampadong Kalimantan carved standing sculpture by the Iban Dayak [Ot Danum Dayak] people from the interior rain forests of BORNEO. An ex...
Category
1920s Malaysian Folk Art Vintage Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Ethiopian Carved Wooden Headrest
Located in Chicago, IL
So as not to muss their intricate hairstyles while sleeping, Ethiopian women would traditionally rest their heads on these petite wooden stands. The combination of conic base and con...
Category
Early 20th Century Ethiopian Primitive Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Luba Royal antique caryatid enthronement emblem early 20th DR Congo Africa
Located in Leuven, BE
Rare Royal caryatid seat Luba Rd Congo in Cubist style and cascade shaped coiffure (see pictures).
Patina of use
Height: 35cm
Early 20th century (around 1920).
Superb and rare except...
Category
Early 20th Century Congolese Tribal Art
Materials
Hardwood
African Sculpture Zaire Antique Copper Coin
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
That's a true antique copper coin from Zaire, very rare: a modern simple sculpture !
I saw only another one like this, but it was not authentic: done for ...
Category
1920s Congolese Archaistic Vintage Tribal Art
Materials
Copper
Abstract primitive head Fragment of a Dogon Sculpture."
Located in Vosselaar, BE
A beautifully patined Dogon fragment of a head sculpture. Because of its natural wear perhaps even being more abstract and natural. As African art inspired the European modernist mov...
Category
Early 20th Century Malian Primitive Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Superb 19th century Kuba pipe DR Congo African Art Kasaï
Located in Leuven, BE
Superb 19th century Kuba pipe DR Congo
People : Kuba
Country : DR Congo, Sankuru River
Early 20th century
Wood
Length : 51 cm
This elaborately carved and ornamented tobacco pipe wa...
Category
Early 20th Century Congolese Tribal Art
Materials
Palmwood
An Unusual Polynesian Fighting Club of Tapered ‘Pole’ Form
Located in London, GB
An Unusual Polynesian Fighting Club of Tapered ‘Pole’ Form
Decorated all over with a geometric design and ‘glyph’ type motifs
Dark glossy patina, excellent colour, retaining the or...
Category
Early 19th Century Tongan Antique Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Terracotta Bura Spirit Vessel, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Sometimes called a "Bura bell" due to its shape, this sculptural terra cotta object was part of the Bura tribe's burial ritual. Buried with its flared mouth facing down, this cylindrical storage...
Category
Early 20th Century Nigerien Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Terracotta
Early 20th Century East African Carved Headrest, Ethiopia (Kambatta People)
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Showing a crescent shaped headrest braced by flattened 'V' shaped supports rising from a cupped base, decorated overall with hand carved linear motifs and exhibiting an old rubbed su...
Category
Early 20th Century Ethiopian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Terracotta Bura Spirit Vessel, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Sometimes called a "Bura bell" due to its shape, this sculptural terra cotta object was part of the Bura tribe's burial ritual. Buried with its flared mouth facing down, this cylindrical storage...
Category
Early 20th Century Nigerien Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Terracotta
Yoruba Osanyin Healing Staff, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
To cure mental and physical ailments, Yoruba priests and diviners invoke the aid of Osanyin, the god of herbal medicines. Used in divination rituals to cure the afflicted, this iron ...
Category
Early 20th Century Nigerian Minimalist Tribal Art
Materials
Iron
Lake Sentani Carved Feasting Platter
Located in Austin, TX
A well carved festival feasting platter. One end featuring a long billed water bird head. The exterior carved with a traditional complex interlocking motif. The interior plain and di...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Hardwood
Toussian Storage Vessel, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Ovoid pots were an elegant storage solution in African tribal life. This beautifully balanced example is attributed to the Toussian people of Western Burkina Faso. Masterfully made to protect its contents from the elements, pots such as this one were coiled by female ceramists to hold food or personal...
Category
Early 20th Century Burkinabe Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Ceramic
Early 20th Century Female Figure. Lwena/Chokwe, Angola-Zambia
Located in London, GB
This early twentieth-century figurative sculpture, from the Lwena/Chokwe culture in the Angola-Zambia Border Region, depicts a female standing in an upright stance.
A defining char...
Category
Early 20th Century Angolan Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Two Naga hunting trophy chains
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Nagaland, North-east India, early 20th century
Probably made from dogteeth.
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Tribal Art
Materials
Shell, Beads, Teeth
Antique drum Middle Sepik Papua New Guinea Murik Lakes Ramu Oceanic Art Iatmul
Located in Leuven, BE
Antique and exceptional drum of the Lower Sepik / Middle Sepik Papua New Guinea
A lovely patina and traces of use.
People : Iatmul?
Country Papua New Guinea
Length: 36 cm
Very good c...
Category
Early 20th Century Papua New Guinean Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Pair of 'Reunited' 1930's Bamileke Anthropomorphic Flutes, Cameroon
Located in London, GB
Together, these two finely carved flutes display a wonderful interplay of the abstracted forms of a 'male' and 'female' figure. A strip of snake skin has been wrapped around the 'bo...
Category
Early 20th Century Cameroonian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Terracotta Bura Spirit Vessel, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Buried with their flared mouths facing down, these cylindrical storage vessels protected the deceased's possessions as they transitioned to the afterl...
Category
Early 20th Century Nigerien Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Terracotta
Exceptional Anthropomorphic Statue Tshokwe Chokwe Tribe Congo 19th Angola
Located in Leuven, BE
Exceptional anthropomorphic statue from the Tshokwe / Chokwe tribe DR Congo / Angola
Tribe : Tshokwe / Chokwe
Country of origin : DR Congo / Angola
Period: 1900-1920
Height: 34 cm
V...
Category
Early 20th Century Congolese Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Unique African Armrest Hand Carved Hardwood
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Unidentified hardwood species/ Hand carved from a single, hardwood armrest.
This armrest was constructed by the Dinka People of the Republic of South
Sudan.
Typically, these headres...
Category
Early 20th Century South Sudanese Brutalist Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Terracotta Bura Spirit Vessel, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Sometimes called a "Bura bell" due to its shape, this sculptural terra cotta object was part of the Bura tribe's burial ritual. Buried with its flared mouth facing down, this cylindrical storage...
Category
Early 20th Century Nigerien Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Terracotta
Early 20th Century Reclining Lobi Backrest With Two Legs
Located in London, GB
With a low seat supported by two splayed legs, this Lobi backrest from Burkina Faso exhibits a wonderful form with a long, reclining back support. Throughout, the surface of the piec...
Category
Early 20th Century Burkinabe Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Antique carved wooden headdress from the Yoruba tribe, Nigeria, 1900-1920
By Yoruba Tribe
Located in Bilzen, BE
A carved wooden headdress from the Yoruba tribe, Nigeria
Strong expression face
Early 20th century
Rich tribal aged patina
Heigth 12 cm, diameter 12 x 13 cm
Category
Early 20th Century Nigerian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Early Twentieth-Century Chokwe Title Staff Resembling a Bird, Angola
Located in London, GB
Resembling the upturned beak of a bird, the shape of this early twentieth-century title staff from the Chokwe culture in Angola exhibits a beautiful, simplistic form. A series of not...
Category
Early 20th Century Angolan Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
A Large Finely Carved ‘Cup Carrier’ of a Women with Child
Located in London, GB
A Large Finely Carved ‘Cup Carrier’ of a Women with Child
Superb colour and rich patina
Wood
Tschokwe, Democratic Republic of Congo
Early 20th Century
Size: 42cm high - 16½ ins ...
Category
Early 20th Century Congolese Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Rare antique female Kurumba statue Marka Malinke Mali Burkina Faso African Art
Located in Leuven, BE
Superb and rare museum quality seated female wooden statue from the Kurumba tribe Mali/Burkina Faso
Statues from the Kurumba people are rare !
For sale at Art Gallery Decoster Belg...
Category
Early 20th Century Malian Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Antique spoon Lower Sepik Papua New Guinea Murik Lakes Ramu Maprik Oceanic Art
Located in Leuven, BE
Antique and exceptional spoon of the Murik Lakes or Schouten Island , Mouth Of The Lower Sepik / Ramu Papua New Guinea
Available @ art Gallery Decoster Belgium
A lovely patina and t...
Category
Early 20th Century Papua New Guinean Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Ashanti African Chief’s ceremonial gold and gilt-metal crown and sash on stand
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An Ashanti Chief’s ceremonial gold and gilt-metal crown and sash
Ghana, early 20th century
Diam. 20 cm (crown)
L. 128 cm (sash)
H. 102 cm (incl. st...
Category
Early 20th Century Ghanaian Art Nouveau Tribal Art
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Metallic Thread
Early Papua Korwar Statue, Collection of Missionary Starrenburg, Collected 1909
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Papua wood figure of a Korwar
North West Irian Jaya, Vogelkop area, coastal Geelvink Bay, present-day Cenderawasih Bay, early 20th century
The seated Korwar is holding an ope...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Native American Art Piece
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Handmade Native American art piece. Every object that makes up this piece has a significant meaning. Metal stand included, which measures 7" x 16" x 20" x .25" thick.
Category
Early 20th Century North American Native American Tribal Art
Materials
Animal Skin, Wood
Early Twentieth-Century African Madonna
Located in London, GB
This early twentieth-century African Madonna figurative sculpture from the Makonde culture in southern Tanzania, close to the border of Mozambique, exhibits a wonderful sense of move...
Category
Early 20th Century Tanzanian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Hardwood
Ancient Zoomorphic Mask Senufo Kponyungo Poro Ivory Coast Early 20th Century / A
Located in Leuven, BE
Ancient Senufo zoomorphic helm mask of the Kponyungo type (Poro secret society)
Tribe : Senufo
Country of origin: Ivory Coast
Early 20th Century
Length: 56 cm
Very good/Perfect condi...
Category
Early 20th Century Ivorian Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Antique spoon Lower Sepik Papua New Guinea Murik Lakes Ramu Maprik Oceanic Art
Located in Leuven, BE
Antique and exceptional spoon of the Murik Lakes or Schouten Island , Mouth Of The Lower Sepik / Ramu Papua New Guinea
Available @ art Gallery Decoster Belgium
A lovely patina and t...
Category
Early 20th Century Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Early 20th Century Shona Female Caryatid Stool, Zimbabwe
Located in London, GB
Supporting the flat, circular seat of this early twentieth-century stool from the Shona culture in Zimbabwe is a figurative sculpture of a sturdy-bodied female. The figure is depicte...
Category
Early 20th Century Zimbabwean Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Hardwood
Pre-1940's Kete Mask With Powerful Expression, D.R.C. (Ex Penn Kent Collection)
Located in London, GB
This striking early twentieth-century mask, from the Kete culture in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, previously belonged to the private collection of Penn Kent, the former Dire...
Category
Early 20th Century Congolese Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Metal
Small Kamba Prestige Stool With Copper and Brass Wirework Decoration, Kenya
Located in London, GB
This early twentieth-century prestige stool comes from the Kamba culture in Kenya. Consisting of a low-set, richly decorated circular seat supported by three finely carved legs, sto...
Category
Early 20th Century Kenyan Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Brass, Copper
An Achuar feather headring
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Achuar people, Perú, Amazon region, early 20th century
Category
Early 20th Century Peruvian Tribal Art
Materials
Natural Fiber, Feathers
Horse Saddle Rug with an Idea
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
nr. 1316 - It's a good old saddle rug, simple with its hex-proof pendants: pleasant to rest on the back of the sofa.
But it can become the seat of an armch...
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Other Tribal Art
Materials
Wool
Ethno Design early 20th Century, Drc, Selection of Three Bark Cloth Beaters
Located in Leuven , BE
Three old and well used bark cloth beater made out of a wooden shaft with a cross-hatched blackened tip which is lashed into position by a strip of cane. These grooved wooden beater were tools used to pound and soften tree bark, for the processing of bark cloth used as clothing. This tool has many different variations that are seen in indigenous cultures worldwide, yet all for a similar purpose. They vary in size, shapes, and materials. They are carved with parallel striations. Some bark beaters...
Category
Early 20th Century Congolese Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Ethno Design Mbole People, DRC, Chief Scepters Collection Made of Palmtree Leaf
Located in Leuven , BE
The Sceptres are made of the Midrib of Palm tree leaves. They were uses by the members of the Lilwaa Secret Society of the Mbole Tribe that live in the ...
Category
1920s Congolese Vintage Tribal Art
Materials
Organic Material
