The Niger Bend | A Selection of Our Best Items |
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$595.00 Agere divination bowl
item #1373Nigeria - Yoruba 13 1/2" (34 cm) This is the container in which the palm nuts used in the Ifa divination ceremony are stored. | $595.00 Agere divination bowl
item #1374Nigeria - Yoruba 18" (46 cm) This is the container in which the palm nuts used in the Ifa divination ceremony are stored. |
$250.00 Agere divination bowl, small
item #1375Nigeria - Yoruba 8 3/4" (22 cm) This is the container in which the palm nuts used in the Ifa divination ceremony are stored. | $250.00 Agere divination bowl, small
item #1376Nigeria - Yoruba 10 1/4" (26 cm) This is the container in which the palm nuts used in the Ifa divination ceremony are stored. |
$250.00 Aguere - Bird & Snake
item #1650Nigeria - Yoruba 13 1/2" (34 cm) This is the container in which the palm nuts used in the Ifa divination ceremony are stored. | $4000.00 Aguere - Chicken
item #1742Nigeria - Yoruba 14 1/8" tall (36 cm) |
$125.00 Ancestor Figure
item #677Ghana - Ewe 9 3/4" tall (25 cm ) | $95.00 Ancestor Figure
item #1626Ghana - Ewe 12" (30 cm) |
$495.00 Beautiful woman figure
item #1745Ivory Coast - Baule 10 7/8" tall (28 cm) | $750.00 Chicken on turtle
item #300Burkina Faso - unknown tribe 16 1/4" tall (41 cm) |
$750.00 Divination oracle
item #95Nigeria - Orobo | $175.00 Elephant fetish figure
item #117Ivory Coast - Baule 6" tall (15.2 cm) Authentic, old, used. Not made for sale to foreigners. |
$400.00 Elephant fetish figure
item #304Ivory Coast - Baule 10 x 6" (25.4 x 15.2 cm) Authentic, old, used. Not made for sale to foreigners. The flat top of this object implies something of spiritual/ritual use was placed on top of it. | $2500.00 Equestrian warrior
item #949Nigeria - Yoruba 20 3/4 x 14 x 43 1/2" tall (53 x 35 x 110 cm) |
$350.00 Female head on basketry base
item #793Gabon - Fang 13" tall (33 cm) | $450.00 Fetish animal figure
item #795Ivory Coast - Baule 10" (25 cm). Please click on the image for a view of the other side and a closeup of this fine old, authentic wood figure. |
$500.00 Fetish figure
item #461Togo - Ewe This figure measures 11 1/4" tall. This figure was probably carved as a fetish. Please click on the image for a view of the side of this very unusual figure. | $600.00 Finest old protective figure
item #667Togo - Moba 26" tall. Please click on the image for views of 2 more sides of this exceptional, genuine figure. |
$900.00 Male figure
item #258Ivory Coast - Baule 18" (46 cm) | $1750.00 Male spirit mate
item #262Ivory Coast - Baule 13" tall, from Lepe, circa 1910. Click on photo for closeup. |
$950.00 Man of Africa
item #446Ghana - Ashanti This is an extraordinary carved wood map of Africa featuring the likeness of the first president and Father of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. This was undoubtedly carved as an hommage to him sometime around the time of Ghanaian independence which occured in 1957. The words "Man of Africa" are etched to the left of the head and the words "Dr. Kwame Nkrumah" are etched in the base of the piece though they have been largely worn away over the years. The height is 31 1/2" (80 cm) and the width from the westernmost tip to the easternmost tip of the continent is 23 1/2" (60 cm). | $500.00 Mouse oracle
item #254Ivory Coast - Baule 16" tall (41 cm). |
$1800.00 Old colonial figure
item #27Ivory Coast - Baule "Colonial" figures are spirit mates in the form of Europeans. The Baule people believe that an invisible universe exists parallel to ours, in which every person on earth has a mate, ascribed to him or her automatically within that spiritual realm. It is that world of the spirits that controls all life on earth. So when any individual has any kind of problem, be it psychological, physical, social (i.e., a conflict with another person) it can be resolved within the spirit world. The conduit through which humans communicate with that world is the spirt mate of that person. The first time a person has such a problem he or she might visit the tribal healer who will suggest that the suffering person elicit the help of a carver to create a representation of the mate that person has in the spirit world. This gives the person the ability to relate more personally and directly to that spirit mate. When the women, in the cases of these 3 figures, described their other-world mates to the carver to embody them, they revealed their ideal mates as manifesting these European characteristics. This figure is from Boganda, 14 1/2" tall (37 cm), circa 1950. Note the small gold bead around the neck of this figure. Such gold pieces are often used to adorn objects of spiritual value in order to increase their usefulness, their power. Please click on this photo to see other views of this extraordinary and genuine object. | $1800.00 Old colonial figure
item #481Ivory Coast - Baule This figure is from the village of Boganda, 10 1/2" tall (27 cm), circa 1950. Please see the explanation included in the item entitled "old colonial figure", above. Please click on the image to see 3 more views of this great old object. |
$450.00 Old drummer figure
item #132Ivory Coast - Baule From the village of Ganada, circa 1985, 7" tall (18 cm) | $5950.00 Old fetish
item #87Ivory Coast - Baule My supplier in Ivory Coast told me this figure is from the village of Guirilan and dates to circa 1900. The distinguished professor of Art History and renowned African art expert, Roy Sieber, personally authenticated this statue for me just 5 months before he passed away. However, Roy doubts it is as old as my supplier told me it is. It is 18" tall (46 cm). Click photo for a closeup. |
$1250.00 Old fetish figure
item #257Ivory Coast - Tagbana From Koutiala, 13" tall, circa 1900. | $750.00 Old fetish stand
item #238Burkina Faso - Lobi 22" tall (56 cm) |
$4000.00 Old forest spirit couple
item #81Ivory Coast - Baule Circa 1890, 11" and 12" tall (28 and 30 cm), from the village of Beoumi. Click on the photo for more views. | $145.00 Old turtle fetish
item #367Mali - Dogon 8" long (20 cm). Please click on the image for another view of this genuine old, used fetish figure. |
$250.00 old wood scooter
item #120Ivory Coast - unknown tribe 9 1/2" long, please click on the image for another view of this very unusal object of African folk art. | $345.00 Old wood turtle fetish
item #368Ivory Coast - Baule 15 1/2" long (39 cm). Please click on the image for another view of this authentic, old, used object. |
$145.00 Old wood turtle fetish figure
item #362Ghana - Fanti 7 1/2" long (19 cm). Please click on the image to see 2 more views of this authentic old fetish figure. | $300.00 Power symbol
item #259Nigeria - Ibibio 14 1/2" tall. Click the photo for another view. |
$300.00 Protection post
item #668Togo - Moba 33" tall. Please click on the image for a closeup view of the top of this unusual post. | $695.00 Seated woman
item #394Ghana - Ashanti 33 1/4" tall (84 cm). This is an unusually nice figure featuring her carved and painted kente cloth dress. |
$250.00 Shango
item #255Nigeria - Yoruba 11" (28 cm) | $350.00 Shango
item #1365Nigeria - Yoruba 17" (43 cm) |
$300.00 Shango
item #1366Nigeria - Yoruba 15" (38 cm) | $1250.00 Small male figure
item #260Ivory Coast - Baule 10" tall (25 cm), circa 1910, from the village of Ndodelikoro. Please click photo for a closeup |
$95.00 Small protective figure
item #666Togo - Moba 8 1/2" | $750.00 Spirit mate
item #389Ivory Coast - Baule From the village of Mbahiakoro, 14 1/2" tall (37 cm), circa 1965 |
$900.00 Spirit mate
item #1739Ivory Coast - Baule 11 1/2" tall (29 cm). From the village of Dembokoro, circa 1900. | $500.00 Spirit mate - colonial figure
item #483Ivory Coast - Baule 11 3/4" tall (30 cm) |
$500.00 Spirit wife
item #68Ivory Coast - Baule 13 3/4" tall (35 cm) This is a beautiful, old, mounted piece. | $1250.00 Spirt mate
item #1740Ivory Coast - Baule 12 1/2" tall (32 cm) From the village of Kakaba, circa 1930. |
$1250.00 Spirt mate - colonial figure
item #388Ivory Coast - Baule 15" tall (38 cm). This figure comes from the village of Sakasso. The man I got it from in Central Ivory Coast said it dates to 1915. | $450.00 Tall protection post
item #669Togo - Moba 44" tall. Please click on the image for a view of the other side of this fine object. |
$2500.00 Tall woman statue
item #79Ivory Coast - unknown tribe 43" tall (1.09 m). Click on the photo to see more views of this beautiful woman figure. | $600.00 Tallest protection figure
item #670Togo - Moba 46" tall. Please click on the image for 2 more views of this fine old, genuine figure. |
$150.00 Tiny stool with Janus heads
item #261Ivory Coast - Baule 7 1/2" tall (19 cm) | $550.00 Turtle eagle proverb figure
item #342Ivory Coast - Baule Africans have a plethora of proverbs. It is common for an artist of any medium to incorporate any of those proverbs in his art. The eagle represents power or a powerful person. The turtle represents the common people. The proverb essentially says that each has qualities which give it value, that they are equal. The eagle cannot hurt the shell of the turtle. This is a genuine object, carved in great detail. It would have been covered with gold leaf and the gold either removed before it was sold or it wore off, or a combination of both. It measures 8 1/2" tall (21.6 cm). Please click on the image to see 2 closeups both of which show vestiges of the gold leaf that used to cover the entire piece. |
$1800.00 Wedding spoons
item #62Ivory Coast - Baule The male spoon, mounted is 10 1/2" tall (27 cm), circa 1965, from Ndolikoro. | $450.00 Woman figure
item #1744Nigeria - Yoruba 20" tall (51 cm) |
$175.00 Wood turtle fetish
item #375Mali - Dogon 11" long (28 cm). Please click on the image for another view of this authentic fetish figure. |
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