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Fierce-looking face mask with bulging eyes, painted in red, green, blue and black, having open, fanged mouth. Height 38 cm. (15 in.).

Yaure, Ivory Coast. Flanged mask with six vertical projections on top of head, having slits as eyes and punched triangular pattern in hair, carved fr

Fang, Ghana. Seated nude female holding breast to suckle child (deficient), having prominent corn row hairstyle, and wearing single belt of yellow be

Baule, Ivory Coast. Having notched scarification marks on back, neck, forehead and cheeks, holding hands in at chest of nude body. With bearded poi

Bambara, Mali. With tall straight ribbed antlers each having a hair tuft at tip, the main antelope figure with red pompom attached to each ear. A se

Guro, Ivory Coast. The oval face representing beauty to the Guro people, with elaborate three-sectioned coiffure, T-shaped nose, and three protruding

Kuba, Zaire. Standing on a round base, with hands resting on sides of protruding belly. Large hair mass carved at back of head, the face featuring a

Yoruba, Benin. This headdress, worn like a cap, features the characteristically Yoruban globular eyes and traditional scarification on cheeks. Havin

Cameroon. Bronze made in the lost-wax technique, decorated with a human face and creatures having pierced rope-like bodies and prominent round ears...

Yoruba, Nigeria. Egongun means ÒbonesÓ, referring to the dancers' belief that they are possessed by the spirit of the deceased when t...

Ashanti, Ghana. Wearing a multi-coloured beaded necklace, and having flat round face on body with tiny arms sticking out at sides, and breasts indica

Hemba, Zaire. This fetish figure has a small opening in its belly, intended to hold magic substances. With prominently carved hair in square notched

Dahomei, Benin. Probably depicting a French sailor. Wood carving of man wearing jacket and hat with glossy patina and pin holes overall, perhaps sug

Kuba, Zaire. Man wearing a king-like cap and sitting on a stool, smoking a large pipe carved from dark wood. A hole is drilled through cap. Heigh

Yoruba, Benin. Standing figure of nude male with striated coiffure painted in blue, in rigid posture with hands attached at thighs. Wearing metal br

Kuba, Zaire. Dark wood helmet mask with horns, three holes drilled in each cheek, having prominent ears and small round mouth. Raffia fringe. Hei

Fang, Gabon. Face mask painted white and black, having a second similar but smaller head with long neck emerging from top of first. Height 53.3 cm

Guro, Ivory Coast. Representing a combination of antelope and crocodile in polychrome wood, worn at funerals and to hunt sorcerers. Having open mout

Pende, Zaire. Having drooping pointed eyelids with openings, and small slit for mouth. Face decorated overall with series of shallow holes in surfac

Ibibio, Nigeria. Having wide rectangular slots for eyes, pointed nose, broad cheeks and forehead. The coiffure and other facial features highlighted

Baga, Guinea Bissau. The largest of the African masks worn on the head, resting on the shoulders of a viewer who looks out between the front legs. I

Songye, Zaire. Squat carving of male consisting of only a head and two legs. The face covered with copper studded nails and cowrie shell eyes, wearin

Iggala, Nigeria/Cameroon. Face mask having deeply sunken eye sockets in curved face, with projecting one-toothed open mouth. Extra flange on top of

Yoruba, Nigeria. Nude male figure standing on round base with hands attached to side. Wearing black horn-disc belt and bracelet with yellow and red

Bembe, Zaire. Having distinctive eyes painted white and ochre around openings, with small mouth and straight pointed nose on oval face. Height 28

Yoruba, Nigeria. On round base with cloth edging, a white painted Yoruban-style face has figure of child emerging behind the elaborate coiffure, and

Dan, Ivory Coast. Having burlap roll decorated with cowrie shells as hair, high forehead, tiny slit eyes and downward-turned mouth with two metal tee

Bambara, Mali. Having pointed ears with drilled holes along edges, indicating where a raffia collarette was attached. Large eye openings and high re

Yoruba, Benin. The face painted white with blue scarification marks on cheeks and outlining eyes. With separately carved bird and two side pieces at

Bobo, Upper Volta. Possibly a combination of crocodile and antelope, the head has both ears and a buffalo-like horn, with triangular opening for mout

Oubi, Ivory Coast. This face mask has feathers and six sets of tubular projecting eyes, with rectangular lips. Height 66 cm. (26 in.).

Dogon, Mali. A nude seated female figure wearing pendant cowrie-shell earrings. Decorated with red pompoms, sitting atop a helmet-like face having t

Yoruba, Nigeria. A seated female breast-feeds one child, while carrying a second in a pouch on her back. Having drilled holes for pupils in the eyes

Dan, Ivory coast. Rigidly standing on wedge-shaped feet, the female figure has a bulbous forehead. With carved scarification details on breasts and

Probably Makonde, Tanzania. The rectangular-shaped body of a stringed instrument, decorated with a feminine face mounted on a neck with two skirted f

Ivory Coast. The tortoise as base with bird standing on its back, wings spread and beak curved down toward tortoise. Height 56 cm. (22 in.).

Punu, Gabon. The figure having an arched back and voluptuous features, her hands resting on her belly. Having a three-part striated coiffure. Hei

Cameroon. A male and female each serve as a pedestal with carved bowl atop head, having bird and geometric details on outer surface. Provenance: