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. | $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. |
$1250.00 Bamileke mask
item #64Cameroon - Bamileke 21 1/2" tall. Please click on the photo for 2 more views of this great Bamileke mask. | $900.00 Best quality colorful Guro mask
item #126Ivory Coast - Guro 27" tall. Please click the photo for 2 closeups of this mask. |
$250.00 Best quality Dan mask with elaborate hair
item #730Ivory Coast - Dan 9 1/2" tall | $200.00 ceramic-rafia mask
item #94Cameroon - unknown tribe 10 7/8" (27.6 cm) tall mask - not including rafia |
$200.00 Ceramic-rafia mask
item #510Cameroon - unknown tribe 9 3/4" tall (25 cm) | $200.00 Ceramic-rafia mask
item #672Cameroon - unknown tribe 8 3/4" tall (22.2 cm), not including rafia |
$200.00 Ceramic-rafia mask
item #1756Cameroon - unknown tribe 10" (25.4 cm) tall, not including rafia | $600.00 Double hornbill top yellow face
item #760Ivory Coast - Guro 16" tall. This Guro mask is very characteristic of genuine Guro masks. Masks such as these are either the property of a single family or of an entire village. The birds are incorporated into the design in honor of them as they may have played an important part in the history of the village or the family which owns it. |
$600.00 Elaborate hair Sande Society helmet mask
item #775Liberia - Mende 16 1/2", Please click on the image for 2 more views of this fine quality design mask. | $750.00 Elephant mask
item #769Burkina Faso - Bobo 23", please click on the image for 2 more views of this great zoomorphic mask. |
$175.00 Female mask
item #777Congo - Chokwe 10 1/5" (27 cm) | $500.00 Fine quality brass-covered wood mask
item #727Mali - Marka 19" tall, this is a very carefully carved version of this type of mask. Please click on the image to see another view of this beautiful mask. |
$289.00 Fine quality traditional mask
item #729Ivory Coast - Baule 11 1/2" tall (29 cm), this mask is a very unusual while completely traditional style of Baule mask. | $289.00 Fine quality traditional mask
item #1741Ivory Coast - Baule 16" (41 cm) |
$750.00 Gelede Mask
item #467Nigeria - Yoruba 13" tall (33 cm) | $500.00 Guelede mask featuring couple copulating
item #181Nigeria - Yoruba 16" tall, 13" front to back, 8.5" side to side (40.6 x 33 x 21.6 cm) |
$600.00 Head top mask
item #647Nigeria - Idjo 22" tall. | $1250.00 Head-topped mask
item #37Nigeria - Idjo 17". Please click on the photo for 2 other views of this beautiful mask. |
$600.00 Hornbill nose horned mask
item #764Ivory Coast - Djimini 18", please click on the image for 2 more views of this really beautiful and unusually well executed mask. | $600.00 Intricate bird-top horned mask
item #722Ivory Coast - Guro This gorgeous mask measures 22 1/2" tall. |
$250.00 Large brass-covered wood mask
item #726Mali - Marka 36 1/4" tall. | $900.00 Large, very elaborate mask
item #719Ivory Coast - Guro Even though this is not the most intricately carved mask it is just a notch or two less than the that. It is a beautiful and still very intricate mask. It measures 29 1/2" tall. Please click on the photo for a view of the drummer on the top of it. |
$600.00 Largest brass-covered wood mask
item #725Mali - Marka Measuring 43 3/4" tall, this is an extraordinarily large version of this type of mask. Please click on the image to see another view of it. | $750.00 Largest Guro mask
item #649Ivory Coast - Guro This mask is 30" tall and is very beautifully carved. Please click on the image to see another view of this fine large Guro mask. |
$1200.00 Largest most detailed Guro mask
item #20Ivory Coast - Guro This is among the finest Guro masks I have ever seen. 32 1/2" tall. Extraordinary. Please click on the image to view 2 closeup images. | $950.00 Lion top Gelede mask
item #651Nigeria - Yoruba 18" tall, 16 .5" front to back, 12" side to side (45.7 x 41.9 x 30.5 cm) |
$450.00 Maiden spirit mask
item #762Nigeria - Ibo 20" tall. Please click on the image for 2 more views of this mask. | $450.00 Maiden spirit mask
item #773Nigeria - Ibo 19", please click on the image for 2 more views. |
$750.00 Maiden spirit mask with birds
item #32Nigeria - Ibo 18" tall, please click on the image for 2 more views of this beautiful mask. | $500.00 Many horned brass-covered mask
item #728Mali - Marka 18" tall, this is an unusually good quality version of this traditional mask. |
$1250.00 multiple animal top large mask
item #231Cameroon - Bamileke 19 /2" tall, please click on the image for 2 more views of this beautiful mask. | $750.00 Ram
item #776Ivory Coast - Guro 11 1/2" (29.2 cm) |
$600.00 Sande Society helmet mask
item #774Liberia - Mende 15 1/2" tal, please click on the image for 2 more views of this simple but striking mask. | $300.00 Seated man-top mask
item #758Ivory Coast - Baule 16" tall (41 cm). The merchant from whom I bought this mask told me that the man on top of this mask is President Felix Houphouet-Boigny, the first and longest-serving president of Ivory Coast. He remains the most popular figure of modern Ivory Coast. |
$125.00 Simple but appealingSOLD 
item #721Ivory Coast - Guro 21 1/2" tall. Although modest this is an appealing mask. | $175.00 Simple, stylized mask
item #771Mali - Dogon 11" tall, please click on the image for another view of this fine, unique design mask. |
$1250.00 Single animal top large mask
item #759Cameroon - Bamileke 17" tall, please click on the image for 2 more views of this fine mask. | $250.00 Smaller but unusual mask
item #724Ivory Coast - Guro This mask measures 20" tall. Please click on the image for another view of this nice mask. |
$1250.00 Tall firespitter mask
item #765Ivory Coast - Senufo 42", including the base. Please click on the image for 2 more views of this NICE mask. | $300.00 Triple small head-long neck top mask
item #766Ivory Coast - Yaure 17 3/4", please click on the image for another view of this mask. |
$800.00 Very elaborate top design mask
item #720Ivory Coast - Guro The extraordinarily finely detailed design of the top of this mask makes it one of the most unusual masks to come from the most talented of the Guro mask carvers of Ivory Coast. It measures 26 1/2" tall. Please click on the image to see another view of the full mask and a closeup of the magnificent top design. | $800.00 Very large fine quality Guro mask
item #648Ivory Coast - Guro This 31 1/2" tall mask is very beautifully carved. The quality of this mask renders it an outstanding example of the artistic ability of the mask carvers of Ivory Coast. Please click on the image for another view of this unusually attractive mask. |
$1950.00 Very unusual horned mask
item #650Nigeria - Ibo 18". Please click on the image for another view of this great mask. |
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