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 GALLERY
   currently no export to the USA or Puerto Rico

 


PENDE

Dem.Rep. of Congo


Face mask "Kiwoyo-Muyombo"

wood, cloth, fiber, paint
height: 28cm (wood only)

estimated age:
late 19th to early 20th century

Provenance:
private collection, Voorhout, The Netherlands















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-SOLD-


BAGA
GUINEA


Guardian figure "a-Tshol" or "elek"
wood
height: 35cm

estimated age:

first half of 20th century
Provenance: 

             Emil Storrer (1917-1989), Zürich, Switzerland;

                                   Collecting date1950s       
                          Adrian Schlag, Ibiza/Brussels

                     private collection, The Netherlands


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NGBAKA
 

Dem.Rep. of Congo - UBANGI area



standing male figure


wood, pigments
height: 34cm

 

estimated age:

first haf of 20th century
Provenance:

Ketterer auctions, Munich, 30 April 1988

 Helga & Hans-Jürgen Müller (1936-2009)

   Stuttgart, Germany, 1988

    private collection, The Netherlans

                    

 



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DAN
Ivory Coast

Miniarure mask
 

wood
height: 13cm


Provenance:
Floros Katsouros, Hannover, Germany
Robert Lewitzki, Celle, Germany

 
Published / exhibited:
Albert-König-Museum (Hg.), "Afrikanische Kunst, Sammlung Robert Lewitzki", Unterlüß 2001

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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-SOLD-

   
TCHAMBA

Northern TOGO
standing female figure

wood with encrusted patina, fiber, Cowries
height: 34.5cm



Provenance:
Alex Arthur, Belgium
private collection, The Netherlands





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MOSSI
Burkina Faso

 
Helmet mask
wood, pigments
estimated age:
first half of 20th century
Provenance:
Anonymous seller, 2005
M. & T.Svenson collection, Karlsham, Sweden
Private collection, The Netherlands
Auctions:
Christie's. Paris, 07.06.2005

 

                                  

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DAN
Ivory Coast


miniature mask 
 
wood with reddish patina
Nr. "20" written on rear side

height: 10cm
estimated age:
mid 20th century


Provenance:
Floros Katsouros, Hannover, Germany

 
 
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BWA
Burkina Faso

 
a very rare
dance wand / sceptre

 metal
incisions are showing the top of a
"dwo" mask costume

iron, wood, crocodile leather
height: 49,5cm
 
estimated age: early 20th century

Provenance: German collection


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HUÉDA
Rep. of Benin


bovine, buffalo, bushcow
from an "Asen"

 
iron
height: 9.5cm length: 11.5cm

estimated age:
2nd quarter of 20th century


Provenance:
Private collection, Germany

 
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SUKU
Democratic Republic of the Congo

standing male figure
wood, 38cm

estimated age:
2nd quarter of 20th century
Provenance:
Michael Graham-Stewart, London, GB
Private collection, Dusseldorf, Germany


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WINIAMA
Burkina Faso

Headdress "nikaá" (two-horned python)

wood, pigments, 72cm

estimated age:
2nd quarter of 20th century


Provenance:
German private collection
acquired 1971/72





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Idoma-Akweya
 


Nigeria

 

 

face mask "okua"

 

 

 

 

wood, metal, 26cm

 

estimated age:

late 19th century

 

 

 

Provenance:

private collection, The Netherlands

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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BAULÉ

Cote d'Ivoire


slingshot / catapult


wood, 18.8cm

estimated age:
first half of 20th century

Provenance:

private collection, France






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Ashanti
Ghana


AKUABA doll

wood, 30cm

estimared age:
first half of 20th century


Provenance:
Karl-Heinz Krieg (1934 - 2012)
by descent through the heirs






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KWERE
Tanzania

medicine gourd
wood, calabash, fiber, glass beads
height: 28.5cm (figure 19cm) 
estimated age:
1st quarter of 20th century


Provenance:
private collection, Germany

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EWE
Republic of Benin

fetish figure
wood, calabash, cloth, copper alloy, offerings
height: 18.2cm

estimated age:
mid 20th century
Provenance:
private collection, France



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Under construction

SONGYE
Dem. Rep. of Congo

board game "kisolo"
wood, 56cm

estimated age:
early 20th century


Provenance:
German private collection

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