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Punu drum
African art > Tam Tam, Djembe, musical instruments > Punu drum

Collection of African tribal art African drums are used not only to transmit messages but also by the fetish priest during ritual ceremonies. This drum is decorated with masks and relief subjects holding hands. Desiccation cracks, slight chips.
The Punu are a Bantu people of Central Africa established mainly in southern Gabon, also in the Republic of Congo in the Niari region. They live in independent villages divided into clans and families. Social cohesion is ensured by the Moukouji society, whose essential role is to subjugate the evil spirits of the forest. Within this same group named Shira, the Lumbu, Loumbu, Balumbu, settled on the coastal part of Gabon, and in the Republic of Congo, keep the bones of their ancestors in reliquary baskets decorated with statuettes and ...


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390.00

Kongo Pearls
African art > Jewelry, ornament > Kongo Pearls

Necklaces of assorted, multi-colored beads, including Venetian beads, glass beads, and Ghana beads, strung on raffia ties. One bead is damaged. Collected in the former Congo.


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80.00

Tke fetish
African art > The fetish, this emblematic object of primitive art > Tke fetish

Former Belgian collection of African art Teke fetish including the chief's regalia sculptures. The bust draped in a textile houses the mystical charge called "Bonga". Established between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon, the Teke were organized into chiefdoms whose chief was often chosen from among the blacksmiths. The head of the family, mfumu, had the power of life or death over his family, the importance of which determined its prestige. The chief of the clan, ngantsié, kept the large protective fetish tar mantsié which supervised all the ceremonies. It was the healer and diviner who "charged" the individual statuettes or nkumi with magical elements, for a fee. According to the Teke, wisdom was absorbed and stored in the abdomen. It was also according to the diviner's ...


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240.00

Yaka Kholuka Mask
African art > African mask, tribal art, primitive art > Yaka Kholuka Mask

Collection of African Belgian art.
This Yaka Kholuka mask, said of circumcision and initiation of young boys, marks the end of the period of confinement. These African masks represent various degrees of the hierarchy of initiates, and as the personal imagination can express itself freely in them, they are very varied. The set is well preserved. The representation of the upturned nose is quite characteristic of the Yaka ethnic group. The headdress is emblematic of the ethnic group. Yaka society is extremely hierarchical and authoritarian. The head of lineage indeed has the right of life and death over his subjects. As often, the artistic movement of the ethnic group was influenced by neighboring populations. For the Yaka, the influence comes mainly from the Suku and Kongo ethnic ...


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390.00

Chokwe pipe
African art > African pipes in wood, in bronze > Chokwe pipe

Aiming in most cases to satisfy the thirst for prestige of their owners, utilitarian objects had to be adapted to the social rank of each. This small ritual pipe has a mouthpiece carved with a head referring to the ancestors of the clan. Tobacco use was widespread among the Chokwe, and smoking was an integral part of offerings to ajimu spirits
Beautiful patina lustrous by use, cracks. Peacefully settled in eastern Angola until the 16th century, the Chokwé were then subjected to the Lunda empire from which they inherited a new hierarchical system and the sacredness of power. br>


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190.00

Luba Rattle
African art > Used objects, pulleys, boxes, loom, awale > Luba Rattle

African Art Luba

Considered a "nkishi", this African sculpture, ritual rattle is said to be endowed, in the Luba culture, with powerful magical and apotropaic powers. These objects come in different forms, including this female figure perched on gourds mounted on a stick. The posture, hands positioned on the breasts, reminds us that the secrets of royalty belong to women thanks to their role as political and spiritual intermediaries. This object was used in the context of the Bugabo association, active during the colonial period among the Luba and related groups, a society linked to hunting, healing and combat. It was customary, during rituals, to fill the gourd with magical ingredients in order to strengthen its power. The ingredients used produced a sound when the object ...


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295.00

Yoruba figure
African art > Maternity, statues, bronze, wood > Yoruba figure

Intended to be enthroned on an altar, this work of African art, by facilitating communication with the sacred, symbolically reminds the divinity of its duties towards men. It features the keloids of Yoruba nobles, distinctive markers of Yoruba tribal statuary. Spotted satin patina. Desication cracks.
The kingdoms of Oyo and Ijebu arose following the disappearance of the Ifé civilization and are still the basis of the political structure of the Yoruba . The Oyo created two cults centered on the Egungun and Sango societies, still active, who venerate their gods, the Orisa, through ceremonies call for masks, statuettes, scepters and divination supports.

The main Yoruba cults are the Gélédé, Epa, Ogboni cults, and the Esu cult, through which a very wide variety of ...


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150.00

Idoma Crest
African art > African mask, tribal art, primitive art > Idoma Crest

Ex. French collection of early African art.
Borrowed from the Igbo of the Cross River, the African masks Idoma crests also relate to warrior masquerades. The subject refers to a water spirit, anjenu, . The scarification that divides the forehead is typical of the Idoma, as are the prominent scars on the temples.

Minor cracks.
The Idoma settled at the confluence of the Benue and the Niger. The members of the royal lineage of their oglinye society, glorifying courage, use masks and crests during funerals and festivities. The janiform crests are generally exhibited at the funerals of notables. Members of the male society Kwompten, on the other hand, used statues called goemai in healing rituals. Crusty matte patina. Minor erosions and cracks.
Ref. "Arts of ...


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290.00

Yoruba Rider
African art > Bronze rider, wooden rider, dogon, yoruba > Yoruba Rider

This sculpture of a rider on his mount depicts a deified ancestor, one of the multiple gods, orisa, comparable to Christian saints and who make up the Yoruba pantheon. The statue also evokes the divine messenger Esù or Elégba. The equine, rare in the region, constituted a prestigious attribute which was reserved for the nobility and the sovereigns. This type of sculpture was intended for a Yurba altar. Polychrome matte patina. Desication abrasions and cracks.
The Yoruba, more than 20 million, occupy southwestern Nigeria and the central and southeastern region of Benin under the name of Nago. They are patrilineal, practice excision and circumcision. Centered on its multiple gods or orisa, the Yoruba religion is famous for its altars on which sacrifices are performed. The arts and ...


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180.00

Suku Mask
African art > African mask, tribal art, primitive art > Suku Mask

A duiker named tsetsi, totem animal of initiates symbolizing the dancer's qualities of agility, is sculpted at the top of this circumcision mask. This type of mask also intervened during various rites, then was kept at its owner. Desication crack, native restoration.
The Suku groups of southwestern Zaire, and the Yaka, very close geographically, recognize common origins and have the same social structure and similar cultural practices. They can only be differentiated by their stylistic variations. The mukanda is the name given to all the rites around the initiation ceremony of pubescent young people, consecrating the end of childhood and shared by many communities. This youth initiation society, n-khanda, or mukanda, found among the Kongo Eastern (Chokwe, Luba, etc...), employs ...


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380.00

Baoule Statue
African art > African statues : tribal fetish, maternity > Baoule Statue

African statue displaying a kplékplé circular mask relating to the spirits of nature, widespread among the Baoulé during the Goli dances. Polychrome satin patina, slight losses and restoration.
About sixty ethnic groups populate Côte d'Ivoire, including the Baoulé, in the center, Akans from Ghana, people of the savannah, practicing hunting and agriculture just like the Gouro from whom they borrowed ritual cults and masks carved. Two types of statues are produced by the Baoulé, Baulé, within the ritual framework: The Waka-Sona statues, "being of wood" in baoulé, evoke a assié oussou, being of the earth. They are one of a type of statues intended to be used as medium tools by Komien seers, the latter being selected by the asye usu spirits in order to communicate revelations from ...


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180.00

Moba Statue
African art > African statues : tribal fetish, maternity > Moba Statue

French collection of tribal art These Tchicheri, or cicilg, present themselves to us either in reduced forms intended for the family altar, or in the form of personal talisman, the yendu tchicheri. Only the sons of diviners were authorized to sculpt this protective effigy. In West Africa, the tchitcheri sakab (pl. of Tchicherik) embody a founding ancestor of the clan. This crude-looking sculpted figure, devoid of features and now eroded and furrowed, was initially planted in the earth.
The mediating object is supposed to increase the magical power of the family or community altar. Light patina, dark drips.

Lit. : "The soul of Africa", S. Diakonoff.; “Africa” Ed. Prestel; “The Ewa and Yves Develon African Collection” Musée des Confluences.


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240.00

Mascara Jukun
African art > African mask, tribal art, primitive art > Mascara Jukun

Arte africana da Nigéria
Máscara de elmo de carácter zoomórfico, ladeada por chifres e tema animal no topo. As protuberâncias circulares também representam cornos de forma estilizada. A superfície é mate e granulada. Fissuras (topo).

Graças à expansão do antigo império Jukun, os Jukun ou Wurbo da Nigéria foram espalhados em dois grupos: um estabelecido a sul do rio Donga, e o segundo no norte da região, perto de Mumuye e Wurkum. Os Jukun do Sul têm uma tradição de máscaras, incluindo a máscara akuma masculina ligada ao culto do mesmo nome e dos quais quatro tipos foram enumerados por A.Rubin. Têm geralmente chifres que evocam o carneiro ou o antílope, em relação ao culto Akuma. As estátuas são raras e estão relacionadas com o culto mam difundido no leste da ...


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290.00

Songye statuette
African art > The fetish, this emblematic object of primitive art > Songye statuette

Belgian collection of African art
African statuette Nkisi , nkishi (pl. mankishi ) of the Songye with a hallucinated look. The arms free up a space to slide metal hooks as was customary. Matte red ochre patina. Resin residue at the top.
The Nkisi plays the role of mediator between god and men, responsible for protecting against various evils. Large examples are the collective property of an entire village, and smaller figures belong to an individual or a family. In the 16th century, the Songye migrated from the Shaba region to settle on the left bank of the Lualaba. Their society is organized in a patriarchal manner. Their history is inseparable from that of the Luba to whom they are related through common ancestors. Very present in their society, divination allowed them ...


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280.00

Fon Bracelet
African art > Jewelry, ornament > Fon Bracelet

Prestigious ornaments of African art


This silver Fon bracelet was worn on the arm by the village chief. It is indeed etymologically the meaning of the name "abagan", "aba" meaning arm and "gan" chief.

This bracelet is made up of chains connecting a decorative subject, a rectangular volume surmounted by a cutout forming a bat.

The Fon people live in a region of the Republic of Benin called the Kingdom of Dahomay. According to legend, a princess of Yoruba origin created this kingdom before the 17th century.


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180.00

Baoule Statuette
African art > African statues : tribal fetish, maternity > Baoule Statuette

Sculpted according to the indications of the diviner after consultation, embodying a type of "ideal spouse", this female figure offers most of the criteria which distinguish traditional Baoulé sculpture relating to "spouses of the beyond" (African Art Western Eyes, Baule ", Vogel, p.253 to 257).
Chip, small abrasions.
Two types of statues are produced by the Baoulé in the ritual context: The Waka-Sona statues, “being of wood” in Baoulé, evoke an assié oussou, being of the earth. They are part of a type of statue intended to be used as a medium tool by the komien diviners, the latter being selected by the asye usu spirits in order to communicate revelations from the beyond. The second type of statues are the spouses of the afterlife, male, the Blolo bian or female, the ...


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240.00

Baoule Statue
African art > African statues : tribal fetish, maternity > Baoule Statue

Carved wooden fig or "Waka -Sona" in Baoulé, representing a young woman wearing braids gathered into shells. This type of Blolo bia statue. forms a mystical wife, whose hands resting on the abdomen underline the value of the lineage. Grainy brown-gray patina. Minor chips.
Around sixty ethnic groups populate Ivory Coast, including the Baoulé, in the center, Akans from Ghana, a people of the savannah, practicing hunting and agriculture just like the Gouro from whose cults and masks they borrowed. Two types of Waka-Sona statues are in fact produced by the Baoulé in the ritual framework: those which evoke an assiè oussou, being of the earth, and which are part of 'a set of statues intended to be used as medium tools by Komian diviners, the latter being selected by the asye usu ...


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240.00

Pové Mask
African art > African mask, tribal art, primitive art > Pové Mask

Ex-French collection of African art.
Support of a sacred power, this African mask Pové, or Vuvi, among the very great diversity of Okandé, Membé masks, from the tribes of central Gabon, adopts modest proportions and a volume of shallow depth. Sculpted by an initiate on the eve of ritual ceremonies, this mask embodies the mythical ancestor of the tribe. Currently, it manifests itself during mourning of personalities or to exercise a form of justice. Established in the Ogooué basin, the Okandé group of Membé language, neighbor of the Punu, Pounou, is composed of the Tsogho, Pové (Vuvi), Okandé, Evea, and Apindji ethnic groups. These ethnic groups practice the cult of Mwiri, a male initiatory society. Source: "Masques du Gabon", ed. Sillages.


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290.00



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