The Niger Bend | A Selection of Our Best Items |
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$900.00 2 Plank style masks
item #663Burkina Faso - Bwa This mask is 64 1/2" tall. Please click on the image to see another beautiful plank-type mask. The second is 46" tall. Each is the same price, $900. | $125.00 2nd set of great brass couples making love
item #402Burkina Faso - Bobo This couple measures 4 x 2". Please click on this image to see another 2 happy couples. The second one measures 4 1/2 x 3", the third 5 1/8 x 2". |
$600.00 3 leg stool with head
item #568Burkina Faso - Lobi This fully patinated stool is very well used. It measures 22" long and 8 1/2" in height (56 x 22 cm). Please click on the image for 2 more views. | $125.00 4th set of couples in love
item #404Burkina Faso - Bobo This couple is 5 x 1 3/4". Please click on this image to see another couple which measures 5 x 2 1/4". |
$1800.00 Adone antelope mask
item #392Burkina Faso - Kurumba 51" tall, this is a very fine quality example of this distinctive and well-known form in African art. The Kurumba, a small tribe in northern Burkina Faso, wear these in a dance celebrating the death of a chief or other important person. They are normally danced in pairs. This mask is probably the best known object the Kurumba make and use so the mask itself is most often called quite simply a Kurumba. Please click on the image for closer view of this fine piece. | $600.00 Another round common stool
item #577Burkina Faso - Gourmantche 13" height, 12" diameter (33 x 33.5 cm). Solid patina on top, worn all around. This stool was used for a long time. Please click for more views. |
$500.00 Black common round stool
item #575Burkina Faso - Gourmantche This is another "common" round stool, found often in the compounds of Africa. This one, measuring 12" tall and 11" diameter (30.5 x 28 cm), has been smoked to blacken it and is in excellent condition. | $125.00 Brass loving couples
item #401Burkina Faso - Bobo I came across these 12 different brass couples while visiting a brass studio in Burkina Faso, quite by accident. Each position is different and the quality of all is excellent, way better than any similar such product I have found in all the time I have been in Africa. These are all one of a kind; there were no others. This first couple measures 5" x 2 1/2" tall. Please click on the image to view 2 more couples. The second one measures 4 3/4 x 2 1/2", the third 4 3/4 x 2 3/4". All are the same price $125. |
$500.00 Brass seated couple
item #407Burkina Faso - Bobo This is a unique couple measuring 7 1/4" tall x 4 1/4" wide. | $750.00 Chicken on turtle
item #300Burkina Faso - unknown tribe 16 1/4" tall (41 cm) |
$950.00 Double design stool
item #576Burkina Faso - Gourmantche This is a great modification on the more common round stool design. It is 11 3/4" tall, 10 3/4" diameter (30 x 27 cm). | $750.00 Elephant mask
item #769Burkina Faso - Bobo 23", please click on the image for 2 more views of this great zoomorphic mask. |
$300.00 First painted Walaja Koranic school board
item #317Burkina Faso - Mossi This Koranic school board, referred to in Burkina Faso as a "walaja", was painted by a marabout, an Islamic religious leader. The verses from the Koran are meant to be read, not re-written on this same board. Please click on the image to view the other side of the same piece, also beautifully painted. This board measures 20 x 6 1/2" tall. | $125.00 Fulani hat - large old
item #820Burkina Faso - Fulani This hat is a very nicely worn, old example of this type of hat. It was worn by a man just long enough to have become well aged but not so much as to have destroyed the beauty of it, thus confirming its authenticity. 18 1/2" (47 cm) |
$500.00 Large "common" round stool
item #569Burkina Faso - Gourmantche This is a nice example of the stools you find in almost every compound in the African bush. At 16" tall and 13 1/2" in diameter this one is quite large by comparison with most. The vast majority of Africans live in villages rather than cities and most of those live in "compounds", groups of huts, usually round, each belonging to a member of one family. Furniture is limited; the most common item of furniture is the round stool of which this one is very characteristic though most are much smaller than this one. Most often these common stools are used outside and get moved around quite casually so are not maintained in the way we tend to maintain our furniture; a lot of wear is always common. This one has lots of wear around the sides and the top is very heavily patinated. The base of this one broke in normal use but was still - and remains to this day - useful so it continued to be used even in its imperfect condition. Please click on this image for another view. | $1975.00 Large authentic balafon
item #441Burkina Faso - Senufo This is genuine musical instrument, used, but in excellent condition. It measures 52" long x 20" tall at the tallest point, on the wider end x 27" wide at the longest key. Please click on the photo for another view of this exceptional balafon. |
$900.00 Large heavy common stool
item #580Burkina Faso - Gourmantche 13 1/2" tall, 18" diameter. Please click for another view. | $250.00 Larger brass couples
item #405Burkina Faso - Bobo This couple measures 6 x 4 1/4". Please click on the image to see another large couple, which measures 6 3/4" tall. |
$400.00 Narrow band woven textile
item #1608Burkina Faso - Fulani 47 1/2 x 95 1/2" (1.21 x 2.43 m) | $350.00 Old brass airplane ring
item #284Burkina Faso - Lobi The airplaine on this exceptional ring measures 1 5/8" long and 1 3/16" wide. Please click on the image for 2 more views of this beautiful ring. |
$350.00 Old brass turtle pendant
item #16Burkina Faso - Lobi 2 1/4 x 1 11/16" (5.7 x 4.2 cm) | $5000.00 Old buffalo mask
item #756Burkina Faso - Bobo 19". This is the most beautiful example of this genre of mask I have ever seen. Please click on the image for two more views of it. |
$250.00 Old double chameleon pendant
item #30Burkina Faso - Lobi 1 1/4" (3.2 cm) long. Please click on the image to see the other side of this nice old copper pendant. | $300.00 Old double chameleon pendant
item #844Burkina Faso - Lobi 1 5/8" (4 cm) |
$1250.00 Old extraordinary hoe head
item #240Burkina Faso - Lobi PRICE REDUCED. | $750.00 Old fetish stand
item #238Burkina Faso - Lobi 22" tall (56 cm) |
$750.00 Old Lobi brass snake pendant
item #49Burkina Faso - Lobi This is a very old, authentic pendant, truly extraordinary. 9 11/16 x 4 7/8" (24.6 x 12.4 cm) | Pot merchants
item #1680Burkina Faso - unknown tribe Please click on the image for other pot views in Ouagadougou. |
$300.00 Second painted Walaja Koranic school board
item #692Burkina Faso - Mossi 18 x 7". Please click on the image to see the other side, similarly painted, of this beautiful object of Islamic art. | $125.00 Standing couple back to back
item #403Burkina Faso - Bobo This couple is 4 3/4" tall. |
$5000.00 Very large Mossi millet beer pot
item #11Burkina Faso - Mossi 23" tall, 36" diameter (58 x 91 cm) 30 1/2" diameter of opening (77.5 cm) | $3900.00 XL mounted mask
item #755Burkina Faso - Bobo 33 3/4" tall, including the base. Please click on the photo for 2 more views of this exceptional piece. |
Yemboini Thiombiano Jean-Paul
item #1683Burkina Faso - unknown tribe This is my first friend in Africa, a man I admired like no other. He passed away in 2003. He was afflicted with the most common killer in Africa, a gastrointestinal disease. The only reason he died was because he just didn't know that all he had to do was go to the drug store to get a cheap and widely available medicine. The compound in the background is Yemboini's home. He was a very modern man, with a shower inside his house, possibly the only African living in such a house with that level of comfort. It's also not common to see Africans walking through their fields with a coffee cup, which is so common in so many other places, especially in the US. |
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