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Standing Mumuye Figure
Lot: 1091UnsoldStanding Mumuye Figure, Nigeria, standing without feet on a circular base, thick angular legs below an elongated torso, long thin arms at sides, with rounded shoulders below the thick neck, with more ...
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Mumuye Man and Dog
Lot: 1092Sold for: $375$300Mumuye Man and Dog, Nigeria, the figure wearing a rope belt, with elongated torso and neck, the dog on four legs, long tail and skin belt, ht. 7 1/2, lg. of dog 6 1/4 in. Provenance: Private more ...
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Mumuye Figure
Lot: 1093Sold for: $438$350Mumuye Figure, Nigeria, thick angular legs below an elongated torso with a protruding belly button, wearing a small leather belt, long cutout arms at sides with long-fingered hands, with sloping more ...
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African Polychrome Pottery Figure
Lot: 1094Sold for: $625$500African Polychrome Pottery Figure, Nigeria, Ibo, solid, seated female figure wears ankle and neck rings, with tripartite coiffure, painted red, black, and white, (cracks and restorations, clay more ...
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Terra-cotta Nok Head
Lot: 1095UnsoldTerra-cotta Nok Head, northern Nigeria, ht. 9 in. Provenance: Private collection, Massachusetts; Willy Okwerekwu, Boston, Massachusetts. more ...
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Yoruba Fetish Group
Lot: 1096Sold for: $1,125$900Yoruba Fetish Group, Nigeria, four standing figures, two male and two female, holding various items, standing on a tall, round base, with smaller round platform above, with tied bundles, a gourd, more ...
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Three Yoruba Ibeji Figures
Lot: 1097Sold for: $500$400Three Yoruba Ibeji Figures, two male and one female, the female with painted inventory number on the base, "80.97.16," ht. 10 1/2, 10 1/4, and 8 3/4 in. Provenance: Richard Kelton Collection, more ...
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Mende Bundu Helmet Mask
Lot: 1098Sold for: $750$600Mende Bundu Helmet Mask, Sierra Leone, from the Sante society, fat rolls on the neck above a heavily pierced rim support the triangular face with small open mouth, narrow nose, and crescent cutout more ...
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Bwa Plank Mask
Lot: 1099UnsoldBwa Plank Mask, Burkina Faso, with circular face, with pierced, open mouth, concentric circles for eyes, and a central, beak-like projection from the forehead, beneath a large rectangular plank more ...
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Cameroon Fly Whisk
Lot: 1100UnsoldCameroon Fly Whisk, the Janus-head top, with raised headgear, the shaft wrapped in hide and animal hair, mounted on metal base, overall lg. 26 1/4 in. more ...
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Mwila (active in Elisabethville c. 1950-70, Congo) Painting
Lot: 1101UnsoldMwila (active in Elisabethville c. 1950-70, Congo) Painting, oil on canvas, a group of dancing tribesmen with spears, signed lower right "Muila," framed, 19 3/4 x 27 1/2 in. Provenance: Private more ...
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Pende Mask
Lot: 1102UnsoldPende Mask, hollowed-out form, wearing a fiber and basketry headdress with four high cones, the face with pointed chin and open pierced mouth with jagged teeth, beneath curved nose and pierced more ...
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Mbuya Pende Mask
Lot: 1103UnsoldMbuya Pende Mask, Democratic Republic of the Congo, hollowed-out form, wearing a fiber and woven headdress sweeping up at the back, the face with pointed chin and open pierced mouth, beneath a more ...
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Pende Mask
Lot: 1104UnsoldPende Mask, Ukwango, Democratic Republic of the Congo, soft features, with eyes nearly closed under heavy eyelids, a pouting mouth, and a nose slightly turned up, the chin extends to a wooden beard, more ...
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Lega Kisumbi Stool
Lot: 1105Sold for: $188$150Lega Kisumbi Stool, rounded top and base and four legs, three of which are joined together, used by men at the Bwami ceremonies, (wood loss),ht. 5 1/2, wd. 9 1/2 in. more ...
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Luba Female Figure
Lot: 1106UnsoldLuba Female Figure, seated on a four-legged stool, holding a staff in right hand, the left hand on a knee, pigmented overall, (loss to right arm, age cracks, wood loss and pigment losses),ht. 18 more ...
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Luba Zoomorphic Mask
Lot: 1107UnsoldLuba Zoomorphic Mask, hollowed-out, the rim with fiber attachments, a bird-like face with short beak and large round eyes, the face deeply cut with geometric patterns, pigmented black and white, more ...
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Ngbaka/Bwaka Mask
Lot: 1108UnsoldNgbaka/Bwaka Mask, hollowed-out mask, pierced twice on the rim, the open mouth above a short beard, with long, flat nose and wide-open cutout eyes, the face and forehead with linear incised marks, more ...
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Kongo Mask
Lot: 1109UnsoldKongo Mask, Democratic Republic of the Congo, hollowed-out, tapering form, pierced around the edge for attachments, with open cutout mouth, wide, flat nose, and large cutout eyes, overall smooth, more ...
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Hemba Figure
Lot: 1110UnsoldHemba Figure, Democratic Republic of the Congo, standing on a round base, with heavy legs apart, cutout arms with hands on protruding abdomen, the elongated neck below the angular head, with small more ...
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Zimba Janus Figure
Lot: 1111Sold for: $1,250$1,000Zimba Janus Figure, Democratic Republic of the Congo, armless Janus half figure on a rectangular base, with squared shoulders, one figure with incised linear and cruciform scarifications on the more ...
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Hunde Wood Panel
Lot: 1112Sold for: $313$250Hunde Wood Panel, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a flat polychromed mask-like panel comprising a roughly rectangular face with an open rectangular mouth and a long-pointed beard/grip, overall more ...
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Rungu Wood Staff
Lot: 1113UnsoldRungu Wood Staff, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a staff topped by a finely grooved ball surmounted by a female figure standing legs apart and arms free of body, with hands to the breasts, with more ...
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Kuyu Marionette Head
Lot: 1114Sold for: $344$275Kuyu Marionette Head, the lower cylindrical section, with pointed handle and neck section, decorated with zigzag bands, the oval head with triple ridged coiffure, pointed braids on either side of more ...
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Congo Wood Staff
Lot: 1115UnsoldCongo Wood Staff, the smooth shaft with two white pigmented collars, with a standing figure at the top, the figure standing on a round base, with strong, slightly bent legs, cutout arms with hands more ...
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Yaka Staff
Lot: 1116UnsoldYaka Staff, short staff, with cylindrical grooved element below the head, with open mouth, large, triangular nose and large coffee bean eyes flanked, by two large c-shaped ears, beneath a flat more ...
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Kuba Palm Wine Cup
Lot: 1118UnsoldKuba Palm Wine Cup, fully decorated cup with two bands of incised geometric patterns of interlocking lines below the rim and above the base, in between carved with numerous animal heads with zigzag more ...
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Songye Power Figure
Lot: 1120Sold for: $750$600Songye Power Figure, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a half-figure, comprising a human torso, the arms held at the sides, mounted on a high round base, with jutting navel, elongated neck, and the more ...
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Songye Kifwebe Panel
Lot: 1121UnsoldSongye Kifwebe Panel, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a rectangular panel featuring a kifwebe mask carved in high relief in the center, the whole brown with black and white highlights on the mask, more ...