Wood Tribal Art

Antique 19th Century Solomon Islands Tribal Art

Wood

19th century Solomon Islands Club. A Supi Battle club, Malaita Island. Lovely deep red brown patina. Clubs of this sort were used in striking attacks, the width used to protect the ...

Antique 19th Century Solomon Islands Tribal Art

Wood

19th century Solomon Islands Club, Malaita Island War Club An uncommon long oval head, black finish from being embedded in a swamp, beautiful dark patina, some encrustations. Cert...

Antique 19th Century Polynesian Tribal Tribal Art

Wood

A classic Austral Islands paddle featuring the intricate surface carving for which these objects are renowned. Ceremonial paddles are icons of Austral Islands art, and although their...

Early 20th Century South African Tribal Tribal Art

Wood

Knobkerries were ubiquitously carried by Southern African men as weapons, dance staffs and symbols of status. While typically designed as somewhat utilitarian objects, they were ofte...

Antique Late 19th Century Liberian Tribal Masks

Wood

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 forcefully in at the eyes,...

Mid-20th Century Kenyan Tribal Tribal Art

Wood

A highly abstract wooden post from Kenya. The Giryama people of the Kenyan coast are known for their long standing tradition of carved wooden mortuary posts. The grave posts, call...

Antique Late 19th Century Australian Tribal Tribal Art

Wood

A lovely, elegantly carved hardwood boomerang. With its pointed arc silhouette, the weapon almost seems to depict an abstract avian form. Subtle striations run the length of the stic...

Early 20th Century Congolese Tribal Collectibles and Curiosities

Wood

A beautiful interplay of raised planes and clustered incisions structures this impressive cephalomorphic Congolese pipe. Flowing line work textures the head, which joins with the bri...

Antique Late 19th Century Congolese Tribal Tribal Art

Wood

Dark patination and pigmentation lend an immediate visual appeal to this powerful Suku helmet mask. Its facial features which project a remarkably sensitive, introspective air – are ...

Antique 19th Century Ivorian Tribal Arms, Armor and Weapons

Metal

A stunning 19th century knife with choral-colored shells on the scabbard. Among the many remarkable art traditions for which the Baule people of Cote D'ivoire are known is their m...

20th Century Kenyan Folk Art Tribal Art

Wood

An early colonial carving from Kenya. There is a rich tradition of carving colonial figures for sale to European colonists throughout Africa. Many of these master carvers carved f...

Antique Late 19th Century Lesothian Tribal Tribal Art

Wood

This small wooden Sotho prestige vessel boasts a carved geometric design and a beautiful smooth finish. The blackened design was produced by using a hot poker. Perfect for displa...

Antique 19th Century New Zealand Tribal Tribal Art

Wood

A traditional Maori staff (taiaha), carved from a single piece of hardwood and endowed with a deep, warm patina of age. The 'tongue' of the staff (arero), used to deliver stabbing bl...

Antique Late 19th Century Ivorian Tribal Tribal Art

Wood

Divinatory figures among the Baule were used as dwellings of asye usu, or bush spirits, incorporeal consciousness’s from outside the village bounds brought into communication with th...

20th Century Tanzanian Tribal Stools

Wood

A graphic Hehe stool with three ridged legs and old patina of use. The Hehe people lived in isolation on a highland in southwestern Tanzania, northeast of Lake Nyasa. With the exc...

Antique 1870s South African Tribal Tribal Art

Brass, Copper, Wood

An exceptional 19th century Zulu wirework prestige stick. This beautiful and exceedingly rare object would have been owned by a person of very high rank and status. The staff is deco...

Antique Mid-19th Century Samoan Tribal Tribal Art

Wood

A 19th century Samoan dance paddle or club. This old dance paddle has a fine old patina and geometric form. It is known as an anave. The club has a long lozenge-shaped blade and f...

Antique Late 19th Century Australian Tribal Tribal Art

Hardwood

A group of three 19th century boomerangs from West Australia. These are very tactile and weighty boomerangs with a lot of wear and dents, knocks, chips and splints from use. All th...

20th Century Kenyan Masks

Copper, Shell, Wood

Magnificent African tribal mask hand-carved and constructed with copper and wood. Decorated with elaborate shells, and colorful tribal designs. Very Large and heavy. Exact origin...

Early 20th Century Gabonese Tribal Figurative Sculptures

Wool, Wood

Beautiful African art mask in carved wood from Gabon, Early 20th Century. It belongs to the Punu ethnic group, coming from Gabon. This mask is carved in wood, representing female fa...

Moroccan Artist

20th Century Moroccan Moorish Tribal Art

Brass, Bone, Tin, Wood

Moroccan antique tribal gun powder case flask, wood covered with brass and silver filigree, delicately hand-hammered brass with animals decor for power protection, the top open and t...

Moroccan Artist

20th Century Moroccan Moorish Tribal Art

Brass, Bone, Tin, Wood

Moroccan antique tribal gun powder case flask, wood covered with brass and silver filigree, delicately hand-hammered brass with animals decor for power protection, the top open and t...

Mid-20th Century Angolan Tribal Figurative Sculptures

Wood

Beautiful large African Art Female Figure Decade of 50. In carved ebonized wood, representing female figure with hyperbolic characteristics. Private collection.

Artisan

Early 20th Century Nigerien Tribal More Folk Art

Leather, Wood

Tuareg leather tribal camel saddle from Agadez, Niger Africa. Finely handcrafted camel saddle formed by stitching brightly colored leather embossed onto a forked wooden base. The sa...

Antique 18th Century Tongan Tribal Tribal Art

Wood

Amongst the rarest objects from Polynesia is the Tongan tuki, or food pounder. These bulbous objects, mistaken by early collectors for Fijian throwing clubs, were used by Tongan wome...

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Vintage 1960s Thai Rustic Decorative Bowls

Teak

Vintage teak tray with handle from Northern Thailand, Mid-late 20th century. Offered by Bruce Hughes. Fashioned from a single piece of teak and traditionally used in Thailand and L...

Antique Early 19th Century Beninese Mounted Objects

Steel, Wood

This carved-wood phallus, called a Legba, was among many placed outside dwellings and in the fields of the Fon people of West Africa to ensure fertility and bountiful harvests. These...

20th Century Bohemian Sculptures and Carvings

Wood

Amazing texture and detail on this hand carved wood head. A great accessory for any interior.

Vintage 1930s Congolese Tribal Art

Wood, Pigment

Fiercely visaged mask with bulbous forehead, filed teeth, and original woven fiber head piece. Rakish marking painted in red is an unusual and graphically arresting feature. Measurem...

Late 20th Century African Tables

Hide, Wood

A 1970s African hand-carved hardwood drum made with stretched hides and twisted leather.

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Vintage 1940s Malian Tribal Masks

Wood

Bamana Mask, Suruku Mali, 1940s.  

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Vintage 1950s Gabonese Tribal Tribal Art

Wood, Copper

Standing 28 inches tall, this statue is of considerably stylized proportion and it impresses the viewers with a tranquilizing stance and meditative and facial expression. With a cyli...

Early 20th Century Nigerian Tribal Art

Steel, Hide, Wood

This striking double-sided mask was created by an Ekoi craftsperson to be worn as a dance crest during ceremonies. The Ekoi, or Ejagham, live along the river Cross in southeast Niger...

Antique Late 19th Century Angolan Tribal Tribal Art

Leather, Wood

A fine and elegant hardwood Chokwe (Angola) bench, carved all-over with geometric patterns, human and animal motifs. The front rain supported with caryatids in the form of male figu...

Antique Late 19th Century Australian Tribal Art

Wood

A fine aboriginal churinga with stone carved layered interlocking design to one face. The churinga is a sacred message board for the Australian aboriginal people and holds religiou...

Mid-20th Century Cameroonian Tribal Art

Iron, Wood

Many pre-coinage African currencies were formed after objects of inherent practical value. This sickle-form iron currency created by an artisan of the Matakam people of Cameroon was ...

Mid-20th Century Cameroonian Tribal Art

Iron, Wood

Many pre-coinage African currencies were formed after objects of inherent practical value. This sickle-form iron currency created by an artisan of the Matakam people of Cameroon was ...

Vintage 1930s Nigerian Other Figurative Sculptures

Wood

The Igbo are one of Nigeria's three major ethnic groups, accounting for about 20% of the total population, concentrated in the south-east of the country. The Igbo culture (Heebo, Ib...

Antique Late 19th Century Papua New Guinean Tribal Art

Wood

A turn of the century "Ompi" featuring a totemic ancestor's face, Markham Valley, Morobe Province. Signs of wear and old lime deposits, soft worn patina. Ex UK collection 10 cm.  

Early 20th Century Australian Tribal Art

Wood

Aboriginal spearthrower carved and incised wood, abrus seeds, cane, shell and gum resin. 62.5cms long, 10.5cms wide. Aboriginal tribes, north Australia, Queensland.

Early 20th Century Papua New Guinean Tribal Art

Wood

Boiken bowl, shallow circular form, the underside carved in shallow relief with a star design, stylised motifs within its border leading the two handles with notched edge and two lo...

Charles Combes

Vintage 1950s French Primitive Pedestals and Columns

Palmwood

Charles Alphonse Combes (1891-1968) An exceptional carved stele in solid palmwood, in the Africanist style of the 1931 Paris Exposition Coloniale. Carved on both sides.

Antique 19th Century Ethiopian Tribal Chairs

Wood

A wonderful hand-carved Jimma chair with tripod legs from a single piece of dense wanza wood, probably made by the Gurage people of Southwest Ethiopia in Africa. Probably dates to th...

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Early 20th Century Indian Tribal Tribal Art

Wood

Vintage tribal flat wooden tray large, from Nagaland, early-20th century. Offered by Bruce Hughes. Fashioned by hand from a single piece of local hardwood, this large flat wooden t...

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Mid-20th Century Indian Tribal Tribal Art

Wood

Vintage tribal wooden cutting tray with handle, from Nagaland, mid-20th century. Offered by Bruce Hughes. Fashioned by hand from a single piece of local hardwood, this flat handled...

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Vintage 1930s Indonesian Tribal Architectural Elements

Shell, Glass, Wood

Carved tribal door panel, Aso motif. Dayak of Borneo, Indonesia, early to mid-20th century. Offered by Bruce Hughes. Hand-carved of ironwood and dominated by an intertwining Aso ...

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Vintage 1930s Indonesian Tribal Architectural Elements

Wood

Old carved door and frame from Sumatra. Merbau wood. Early to mid-20th century. Offered by Bruce Hughes. This rare and wonderfully rendered door from Sumatra, most likely from the...

Early 20th Century Ghanaian Tribal Art

Steel, Wood

For the Dagari people of Burkina Faso and Ghana, this highly stylized figure embodied the living spirit of a deceased ancestor. Tucked away from view in a secret alcove or shrine, th...

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Vintage 1930s Nepalese Tribal Tribal Art

Wood

Wooden tribal male statue from West Nepal, early to mid-20th century. Mounted on a metal plate. Offered by Bruce Hughes. This wooden figure comes from West Nepal, most probably fro...

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Vintage 1930s Nepalese Tribal Tribal Art

Wood

Wooden tribal female statue from West Nepal, early to mid-20th century. Mounted on a metal plate. Offered by Bruce Hughes. This wooden figure comes from West Nepal, most probably f...

20th Century Indonesian Tribal Tribal Art

Hardwood

Large carved hardwood ornamental structure used as a support and a decorative frontispiece. It bears a stylized face embedded within an ornately carved and painted geometric pattern....

Early 20th Century Congolese Tribal Art

Iron, Wood

With its many blades and dramatic form, this impressive throwing knife would have been a status symbol and a form of currency among the Ngombe peoples of what is now the Democratic R...

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Mid-20th Century Kenyan Tribal Tribal Art

Wood

Offered by Scott McCue Carved wood tribal three leg headrest, Kenya A wonderful, worn used three leg headrest from Kenya, about 14 inches long.

Early 20th Century Nigerian Tribal Art

Wood

A fine pair of ere Ibeji figures from Gbongan region Nigeria A pair of hard wood male and female Ibeji with crest hair style Showing fine aged patina with traces of rekitts blu...

Early 20th Century Ivorian Tribal Art

Wood

African tribal art Fine Baule figurative catapult or sling shot Finely carved with a female figure with down cast eyes and hands on Abdomen Fine example Ex Giovanni Sciarli colle...

Antique Early 19th Century Indian Tribal Art

Wood

This is a rare and interesting antique figurative bracket from a 19th century East India company ship Sailing vessels made in India were bought by the British and used to transport...

Antique 15th Century and Earlier Mexican Tribal Art

Wood

Pre Columbian ancient Mexico good Mezcala green stone mask pendant Pre Columbian Ancient Mexico A fine Mezcala Stone Mask pendant circa BC 300-AD 200 Guerrero Mountain area of Cen...

Early 20th Century Papua New Guinean Tribal Art

Wood

A Mendi war or dance shield with painted figure Mendi Valley, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea With painted figure which is thought to represent a ancestor Oval shaped medium we...