Tribal Tribal Art
Style: Tribal
Color: Gold
Edan Staffs for Ogboni Society, Yoruba People People, Nigeria, 20th century
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Pair of Bronze & Iron Ogboni Society staffs from the Yoruba People, Nigeria, early 20th century.
Among the Yoruba, in southwestern Nigeria, there was and still is the Ogboni secret s...
Category
Early 20th Century Nigerian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Bronze, Iron
Ashanti Bronze Figurine, Asante People, Ghana, 1950s
By Akan Ashanti
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Akan Ashanti cast bronze figurine. The Ashanti or Asante People from Ghana have a rich tradition of crafting bronze pieces to commemorate important figures from their culture or peop...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ghanaian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Currency Bracelet/Manilla, Dogon People, Burkina Faso, 19th c. - No 5
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
19th-century bronze currency bracelet / Manilla in horseshoe form with fixed opening. Intricate graphical swirled rope work design and tips are shaped with large flat ends with geome...
Category
Mid-19th Century Burkinabe Antique Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Bronze
Grouping of 5 Manillas, Okpoho, Nigeria, 19th Century
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Manillas are horse-shoe shaped, made of an open circle of bronze, brass, or copper with enlarged finial terminations. They were used as a currency in West African countries from the ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Nigerian Antique Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Bronze, Brass, Copper
Bronze Currency Bracelet/Manilla, Dogon People, Burkina Faso, 19th c. - No 3
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
19th-century bronze currency bracelet / Manilla in horseshoe form with fixed opening. Intricate graphical design with a lattice pattern. This type of bracelet was worn or used by the...
Category
Mid-19th Century Burkinabe Antique Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Dan Bell, Cote d'Ivoire, 1960s
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Bronze Dan (also called Yakuba) bell, Cote d'Ivoire, circa 1960s.
This Dan bell is made from the lost-wax process. It has a looped handle and stylized designs on the bell and around ...
Category
1960s Ivorian Vintage Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Bronze
Set of Three West African Manilla Currency Pieces on a Custom Mount
Located in Chicago, IL
This captivating set of three 19th century West African bronze currency manillas, elegantly displayed on a custom mount, serves as a fascinatin...
Category
19th Century African Antique Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Bronze
Benin Bronze Bell Sculpture Depicting an Oba
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An exquisite Benin bronze sculpture in shape of a bell depicting an Oba. Oba translates to "ruler" in the Yoruba and Bini languages of contempor...
Category
20th Century Nigerian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Bronze
Baule Lost Wax Cast Bronze Circular Discs Butterfly Ivory Coast Africa Based
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Circular Lost Wax Cast Bronze Discs or pendants, one with beautiful butterfly in low relief. The other has abstract design, both have finely modeled rings as background to the design...
Category
Early 20th Century Ivorian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Bronze
Early 20th Century Fine Cast White Metal Bracelet Classic Sculpture Form
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Late 19th to early 20th century cast mixed white and brass metal bracelet from the East Africa, possibly connected to the Arab states. Beautiful cast geometric design around outside ...
Category
Early 20th Century Zambian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Bronze
African Bug Bead Necklace, Old Hand-Cast Metal Beads
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Fulani, Nigeria
Hand-cast brass beads on a hand-woven cord
19th century
Measures: 17 in. / 43 cm
8 oz. / 227 g.
Category
19th Century Nigerian Antique Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Bronze
Vintage Nupe Cast Bronze Purse Container Bells and Rings Early 20th Century
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Vintage Nupe of Nigeria thinly cast hollow bronze purse or container, probably created by the lost wax process with attached bronze bells and rings. Hollow with fine overlaid designs...
Category
Early 20th Century Nigerian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Bronze
Andrianna Shamaris Antique African Bronze Currency
Located in New York, NY
Beautiful antique African art object originally used as currency. Lovely patina and shape on this rare solid piece that could also be put on a stan...
Category
Early 20th Century Congolese Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Andrianna Shamaris Antique African Bronze Ekonda Currency
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful ankle cuff bronze sculpture, is hand forged, very heavy and a great tribal collectible. Typically worn for celebrations and relatively short periods due to the weight,...
Category
Early 20th Century Congolese Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Wabi-Sabi Old Repaired Ashanti Bronze Brass Vessel Crocodiles, Patina, Repairs
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Modern and contemporary artists working in crafts mediums (especially ceramics, metals and basketry) in the Expressionist style developed from the 1950s, were inspired by such artwor...
Category
Early 20th Century Gabonese Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Bronze
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Located in Point Richmond, CA
Ceremonial comb, Luba People, Zaire, D. R. Congo
Made of palm leaf midribs, this large, graphic comb has a pinched waist and is held together with finely wrapped wire. Presented o...
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Mid-20th Century Congolese Tribal Tribal Art
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Wire
African Currency, 19th Century
Located in Dallas, TX
This set of 3 pieces of African currency is very interesting. Looking like some sort of ancient maraca, these 19th century pieces jingle and noise-make with each step. The dimensions...
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19th Century African Antique Tribal Tribal Art
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Cubist Ibibio Puppet Head Brass Eyes Nigeria Early 20th Century stern gaze stand
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Early Ibibio puppet head with strong stern expression through tightly closed lips, large brass tack eyes. With wood tenon mounted in custom base.
Total height on base 11 1/4 inches
...
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Mid-20th Century Nigerian Tribal Tribal Art
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Wood
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Ashanti Mother and Child Maternity Figure Carved by Osei Bonsu, Ghana
By Osei Bonsu
Located in Austin, TX
A fine Ashanti maternity figure by the master carver Osei Bonsu. The mother figure is seated on a simple backless chair. An infant lays calmly in her la...
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Mid-20th Century Ghanaian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Vintage Pal Kepenyes Bronze/Brass Necklace, 20th Century
By Pal Kepenyes
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Vintage Pal Kepenyes bronze/brass necklace, 20th century.
This Hungarian born artist worked in Mexico for decades, known for free-form sculptural jewelry...
Category
20th Century Mexican Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Large Abstract Polychrome Nafana "Bedu" Mask, Burkina Faso, Africa Wood Pigments
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Nafana "Bedu" mask, from Southern Burkina Faso/Ivory Coast. Wood with natural earth pigments. Note the double faces, one with tubular eyes and mouth for the dancer and the larger a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Burkinabe Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
H 58.5 in W 26 in D 3 in
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
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 costume from Yoruba, Nigeria. Pu...
Category
20th Century Nigerian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
19th Century Zanzibar Chest
Located in Pasadena, CA
This is a very good example of a 19th century Zanzibar storage chest. The chest was created in the mid-19th century. The teak case is adorned with cut and open work brass strapping i...
Category
Mid-19th Century Zanzibari Antique Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Brass
Antique Ceremonial Ashanti Ghana African Queens Wooden Stool mmaa dwa
Located in London, GB
An antique Ashanti ceremonial stool, carved from a single piece of wood. The up-curved seat stands on five supports, the central one pierced with small semi circles and the outer four supports carved, fretted.
In very good condition
Length 46cm
Height 34cm
Width 24cm
The origin of the Ashante culture can be found in the Akan ethnic groups that inhabited West Africa around Lake Volta and the Gulf of Guinea. The Asante formed a strong confederation that developed from the late 17th century, with the founding of the city of Kumasi, and whose economy was based on trade, gold mining and slave traffic. They are the most important and larger ethnic group in Ghana and was one of the few African states capable of resisting European imperialism.
Within the material heritage and furniture of the Ashante people, some of the most outstanding pieces are the ceremonial stools, being the Golden Stool...
Category
Early 1900s Ghanaian Antique Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
H 13.39 in W 18.12 in D 9.45 in
Ashanti Maternal Fertility Figure
Located in Atlanta, GA
On offer is an Ashanti female fertility figure from Ghana, West Africa, circa Mid-20th century. Carved from a single block of wood, the statue depicts a female with typical coiffure ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ghanaian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Glass, Wood
Early Classic Wood Ashanti Stool Circle Supporting Top, Ghana Mid-20th Century
Located in Point Richmond, CA
A well-loved traditional stool or seat from the Akan people of Ghana. The supports for Akan stools take many forms, they can be purely geometric or architectural with simple posts a...
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Mid-20th Century Ghanaian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
H 11.5 in W 17 in D 9 in
Previously Available Items
Bronze Ogboni Bell, 1960s
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Yoruba Bell surmounted with a handle, made for the Ogboni society was used in rituals, possible to make connections with their ancestors. The Ogboni Society is a fraternal institutio...
Category
1960s Nigerian Vintage Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Bronze
African Mid-Century Horesemen with Allegorical Decorative Motivs, Mali 1970s
Located in Salzburg, AT
Pair of horsemen in bronze from Mali of the Dogon ethnic group. Beautiful volume for this charming piece of large size. Brown patina with numerous nuances.
2 Armed riders sitting u...
Category
1970s Malian Vintage Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Bronze
H 10.24 in W 9.06 in D 1.78 in
Benin Bronze Oba Head 'The Nelson Rockefeller Collection'
Located in Sharon, CT
As stated in The Nelson Rockefeller Collection catalog: This 17th century bronze from the Court of Benin, Bini Tribe. (Nigeria, Africa) was originally created as a tusk holder for royal ancestral shrines...
Category
1970s Nigerian Vintage Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Benin Throne Chair
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This is a solid cast bronze African throne chair from the country of Benin. Displayed are a head/ lead figure flanked by 4 female figures that sup...
Category
20th Century Beninese Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Bronze
African Mid-Century Bronze Box with Allegorical Decorative Motivs, Mali 1960s
Located in Salzburg, AT
Bronze Dogon Box in wonderful original condition
(Ex-collection of French African art)
The frequent representations of horsemen in the African art of the Dogon of Mali refer to their...
Category
1960s Malian Vintage Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Bronze
H 8.27 in W 12.21 in D 3.55 in
Vintage Bronze Oil Lamp with Shaman Figure from West Nepal, Mid-20th Century
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Vintage bronze oil lamp with Shaman figure from West Nepal. Mid-20th Century. 11 inches tall.
This lamp comes from far west Nepal, an off the beaten path area known for its sculpture...
Category
Mid-20th Century Nepalese Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Bronze
Andrianna Shamaris African Antique Bronze Currency
Located in New York, NY
Beautiful antique African art object originally used as currency. Lovely patina and shape on this rare solid piece that could also be put on a stan...
Category
Early 20th Century Congolese Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Bronze Verdigris Benin Bust, Mid-Century
Located in London, GB
Of life size proportion and captivating noble features, with beautiful lost wax casting and ideal verdigris patina.
Category
1960s Nigerian Vintage Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Bronze
Early 20th Century Hollow Fine Cast Bronze Baule Bracelet Classic Sculpture Form
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Late 19th to early 20th century hollow cast bronze bracelet from the Baule of Cote d'Ivoire. Beautiful cast geometric design around outside, smooth from wear inside. Rounded volumes ...
Category
Early 20th Century Ivorian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Bronze
H 4.5 in W 5.25 in D 3 in
African Brass Bronze Figure Rifle Benin 'Dahomey' Early 20th Century Africa
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Small, old finely cast bronze Fon hunting figure or god figure with horns. Probably a god with the blade in mouth and holding a an old flint lock rifle and ...
Category
Early 20th Century Beninese Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Bronze
H 8.25 in W 5 in D 3.5 in
Finely Crafted Small Batak Bronze Box with Full Figure and Singas, Indonesia
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Extremely finely crafted, probably made by the lost wax process, cast bronze small Batak storage box with reclining figure with hands on knees and two protective singas at one end. I...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Bronze
H 4.75 in W 8.5 in D 3 in
Ashanti Solid Bronze Bowl with Ring Handles-Africa, Early 20th Century
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Ashanti vintage solid bronze bowl with ring handles. The bowl has great definition in the form of a basket. The top border has fish shapes just under the rim.
The Ashanti Akan people...
Category
Early 1900s Ghanaian Antique Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Bronze
Tribal tribal art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Tribal tribal art 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 tribal art created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include folk art, decorative objects, more furniture and collectibles and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, metal and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Tribal tribal art 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 tribal art, popular names associated with this style include Yoruba People, Berber Tribes of Morocco, Baule Tribe, and Igbo 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 tribal art differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $95 and tops out at $104,031 while the average work can sell for $1,750.