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Category: African Art

Rare Baule Granary Door with Creature Motifs

  Late 19th/early 20th C; Baule society, Ivory Coast.  44″x 23″ The Baule granary doors are important aspects of architecture…

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A Rare Fang Betsi Reliquary Guardian Head

Fang, Gabon; wood, brass.  Size: 11″ h, 6″ w, 5.25″ d. In Gabon and other African subculture, reliquary figures are…

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Rare Seated Babanki-Tungo Figure on a Stool

Western Grassland, Cameroon 31” h, 18” w, 23” d Other views This northern kingdom is known to be a “society…

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A Dogon Tellem Sculpture

Dogan-Mali; wood, matter-encrusted patina, could be close to 100 years old. Most of the African wood carvings in the West,…

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Bronze Mahongwe-Kota Reliquary Figures

Eastern Gabon/Western reaches of the Congo The Kota tribe practices an ancestral cult known as ‘Bwete’ that was at the…

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Songye Female Kifwebe Mask (“kikashi” type)

Eastern Songye, Democratic Republic of Congo; wood, white pigment; 17″ high. Kifwebe masks were made as a means of controlling…

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Face Mask of the Je Group (Lomane)

Yaure, Ivory Coast; wood with accents in blue and red; probably 60-80 years old. This mask type with a depiction…

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African Maternity Figure

The striated hair style of the mother and child on this figurine points to the statue being from the Senufo…

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