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African Carved Wood Figure
Lot: 96Sold for: $441$375African Carved Wood Figure, Tanzania, the standing figure with cylindrical legs, arms extending to a protruding abdomen, the large head with concave heart-shaped face, diminutive eyes and mouth, more ...
African Carved Wood Female Figure
Lot: 97Sold for: $441$375African Carved Wood Female Figure, Lwena, the standing figure with cloth wrapping around the legs, carved arms to the sides, the large head with elaborate coiffure and trade bead inlay, a hole in more ...
African Carved Wood Slit Gong
Lot: 98Sold for: $411$350African Carved Wood Slit Gong, Yaka, the cylindrical gong surmounted by a carved head with prominent facial features and elaborate fire-darkened coiffure, brown patina, (cracks),ht. 9 3/4 more ...
African Carved Wood Bird Mask
Lot: 99Sold for: $999$850African Carved Wood Bird Mask, possibly Chokwe, the hollowed oval form with a tripartite curved beak, small pierced nostrils, round recessed eyes with pierced centers, and concave medial ridge with more ...
African Carved Wood Helmet Mask
Lot: 100Sold for: $705$600African Carved Wood Helmet Mask, Bassa, pierced at the rim for attachments, with three relief-carved faces, each with concave face, crescent-shaped eyes, and scarification marks on the forehead, all more ...
African Carved Wood Mask
Lot: 101Sold for: $764$650African Carved Wood Mask, Dan, the hollowed oval form pierced for attachment, wearing a braided fiber beard, the pierced protruding mouth below a triangular nose and round pierced eyes covered with more ...
African Carved Wood Mask
Lot: 102Sold for: $940$800African Carved Wood Mask, Hemba, the partially hollowed oval form with large upturned open mouth, abstract deeply-set arched eyes and brows, with narrow pendant nose pierced at the edge for more ...
African Carved Wood Mask
Lot: 103Sold for: $881$750African Carved Wood Mask, Makonde, the hollowed oval form pierced for attachments, with crescent-shaped open mouth, long triangular nose, narrow pierced eyes, and projecting C-shaped ears, brown more ...
African Carved Wood Mask
Lot: 104Sold for: $588$500African Carved Wood Mask, Dan, hollowed oval form pierced around the rim for attachment, the pierced protruding mouth beneath a triangular nose and pierced round eyes with faint brow line, ht. 9 more ...
African Carved Wood Mask
Lot: 105Sold for: $529$450African Carved Wood Mask, Bassa, the hollowed tapered form with concave face, diminutive square pierced mouth, oval eyes, narrow nose, prominent forehead, and elaborate plaited coiffure, dark more ...
African Carved Wood Mask
Lot: 106Sold for: $646$550African Carved Wood Mask, Tanzania, the hollowed oval form pierced at the edge with five trade bead and metal bell suspensions, the protruding round mouth and eyes pierced, raised crescent-shaped more ...
African Carved Wood Mask
Lot: 107Sold for: $353$300African Carved Wood Mask, Tanzania, the hollowed oval form pierced around the rim for attachment, the rectangular eyes and mouth pierced, aquiline nose leads to arched brows, dark patina, ht. 9 more ...
African Carved Wood Mask
Lot: 108Sold for: $940$800African Carved Wood Mask, Hemba, the hollowed tapered oval form with large pierced upturned mouth, concave face, narrow pointed nose, pierced eyes, arched brows, and relief-carved hairline, dark more ...
Four African Carved Wood Masks
Lot: 109Sold for: $176$150Four African Carved Wood Masks, two Lega, one Cameroon, and one Tanzanian, various more ...
African Carved Wood Mask
Lot: 110UnsoldAfrican Carved Wood Mask, possibly Ibibio, the hollowed oval form with oval mouth, the carved teeth biting on a cloth (possibly representing the tongue),the triangular nose beneath pierced slit more ...
African Carved Wood Female Figure
Lot: 112Sold for: $235$200African Carved Wood Female Figure, Kwere, the standing figure with bent knees, arms extending to a protruding abdomen, the head with minimally carved face and elaborate double-lobe coiffure, wrapped more ...
Two African Carved Wood Staff Tops
Lot: 113Sold for: $353$300Two African Carved Wood Staff Tops, the first with a cylindrical tapered shaft surmounted by a stylized figure with inlaid bead eyes and long curved ears, the second with a copper-capped cylindrical more ...
Three African Items
Lot: 114Sold for: $323$275Three African Items, a Cameroon clay pipe bowl in the form of a stylized animal head, a possibly Baule wood heddle pulley with coiffed female head, and a carved wood pipe in the form of a kneeling more ...
African Carved Wood Male Figure
Lot: 115Sold for: $588$500African Carved Wood Male Figure, Baule, standing on a faceted base, with muscular legs, arms extending to the abdomen, scarification patterns on the face and torso, elaborate coiffure, dark glossy more ...
Two African Carved Wood Items
Lot: 116Sold for: $353$300Two African Carved Wood Items, a Kuba cup, the conical base surmounted by a stylized head with incised features, elaborate coiffure, and metal overlay on the nose, the second a seated figure, legs more ...
African Carved Wood Male Figure
Lot: 117Sold for: $1,175$1,000African Carved Wood Male Figure, Baule, standing on a round base, with muscular legs, arms extending to the abdomen, scarification patterns on the face, neck, and torso, the coiffure supporting a more ...
African Carved Wood Female Figure
Lot: 118Sold for: $588$500African Carved Wood Female Figure, Lobi, standing on eroded feet, with muscular legs, protruding navel and abdomen, pendant breasts, long arms carved to the sides, the spherical head with pronounced more ...
African Carved Wood Male Figure
Lot: 119Sold for: $588$500African Carved Wood Male Figure, Lobi, standing on eroded feet, with muscular legs, protruding navel and abdomen, arms carved to the sides, the spherical head with pronounced features and cap-like more ...
Three African Carved Wood Dolls
Lot: 120Sold for: $118$100Three African Carved Wood Dolls, two female figures with cylindrical torsos and a tri-lobed seed pod figure with glass bead eyes and beaded hide apron from Turkana, Kenya, ht. 12 1/2 more ...
African Carved Wood Male Figure
Lot: 121UnsoldAfrican Carved Wood Male Figure, Tanzania, the three-piece figure with cylindrical jointed legs, armless tapering torso, large head with square mouth inlaid with two human teeth, large nose, round more ...
African Carved Wood Sculpture
Lot: 122Sold for: $1,293$1,100African Carved Wood Sculpture, Urhobo, a male figure with scarification marks on face, wearing a brimmed hat, connected at the waist, and grasping the ears of a quadruped creature with large peaked more ...
Fiji Island Carved Wood Throwing Club
Lot: 123Sold for: $1,293$1,100Fiji Island Carved Wood Throwing Club, 19th century, unusual curved faceted head with pointed dome, decorated with chip-carved zig-zag linear devices, dark patina, lg. 14 more ...
Polynesian Carved Wood Throwing Club
Lot: 124Sold for: $1,528$1,300Polynesian Carved Wood Throwing Club, Fiji, with chip-carving on part of the handle and a tooth inlaid in the business end, dark patina, lg. 16 more ...
Polynesian Carved Wood Bowl
Lot: 125Sold for: $588$500Polynesian Carved Wood Bowl, Cook Islands, possibly 19th century, the hardwood trough or drum-shaped bowl with central rectangular pedestal, lg. 17 1/2 more ...