A Fine Old Kuba Drum

A carved wooden Musical instrument with incised linear designs, a carved wooden Hand on the handle and goat skin drum head pegged onto the drum to act as the membrane. A well used instrument, the head

A carved wooden helmet mask adorned with copper sheet, animal hide and embellished with numerous glass beads and textiles. The Bwoom mask was worn at boys initiations where it would represent the natu

A very finely carved wooden mask with attached headdress and wonderfully painted geometric designs throughout. This mask represented a wise older man at boys’ initiations. One of the principal Kuba

A highly stylized mask with curled horns and large flattened nose. Carved from a hard wood and painted with geometric tribal motifs. This mask type, called "Pwoom Itok" or "Ishen Maal" is occasionally

A carved wooden face mask with dark painted geometric designs and stylized horns around the eyes. The mask is adorned with a raffia grass headdress and crown of feathers. Kuba peoples, DRC/Congo, cent

A Carved wooden mask that represented a wise older man at boys initiations known as "Pwoom itok". The chief identifying characteristic is the shape of the eyes, whose centers are cones surrounded by h

Carved wooden helmet mask with dramatic bulging forehead accented with shells, beads and metal work. A bold and powerful example of the style. During a dance performance, the bwoom mask introduces an

A Carved wooden crescent shaped lidded container with a fine mask like face with arched brows and ornate incised tribal motifs. Kuba peoples, DRC/Congo, Africa. The Box measures 9 inches. provenance:

A carved wooden ceremonial dance mask with carved and painted incised linear designs as well as painted geometric motifs, well handled and weathered surface suggesting good age and field use. The mask

This is a very fine old wood sculpture of an important chieftain of Kuba kingdom. The figure is carved from a dense heavy wood with ornate designs and a proud stance. Kuba peoples, Congo, Africa. The

Fine Old Kuba Raffia Textile, DRC, Early 20th C. Size: 38'' x 139'' (97 x 353 cm). Provenance: Maryanne Conheim, Philadelphia.

A carved wooden flat face mask that was once part of a larger helmet mask, painted with linear designs and organic earthen pigments. Kuba peoples , Congo, Africa. Provenance: Ex Irwin Cemic collection

A Carved wooden mask with polychrome pigments and attached raffia grass and rattan fiber headdress. This mask may have represented a wise older man at boys’ initiations. One of the principal Ku

A carved wooden Kuba portrait cup with incised and raised designs, openwork handle and a well handled surface patina. Kuba peoples, DRC/ Congo, central Africa. The cup measures 7.25 inches tall. Prove

A Finely carved box with tight fitted lid and featuring raised and incised designs. Boxes such as these were for storing tukula, a reddish powder made from the bark of a tree. It was used for body and

A carved wooden effigy of the King of the Kuba, with elaborate regalia, elegant style and a golden honey colored patina from handling over many years. The sculpture measures 16.5 x 6.5 inches.

A carved wooden pipe bowl with metal (aluminum) lined bowl and a traditional Ancestor face adorned with linear designs and cross hatching. The Pipe Bowl measures 3.5 x 3 inches ( 4.5 inches tall on cu

A early and finely carved wooden staff featuring a classic image of a Kuba mask like face with carved brow and raised scar designs. The staff has a deep well handled surface patina suggesting years of

A carved wooden male effigy with a most unusual pose, with the hands covering his ears and a deep well handled surface patina. Kuba peoples, Congo, central Africa. The figure measures 11 inches tall.C

A Fine Old Kuba Bwoom mask embellished with various seeds and beads, animal hide ( now decayed) and hand hammered copper sheet. The bwoom is one of three types of royal Kuba masks, all of which are tr

A Very Fine Old Kuba peoples ceremonial Cap adorned with Beads, shells, textiles and what has been suggested to be insect body shells ( small black bumpy objects ). The Hat shows good age and wear and

A carved wooden cylindrical wooden drum with stretched Goat hide skin membrane and wooden pages driven into the side to hold the drum head. The Drum Body is decorated with ornate linear designs and 8

A Fine Kerewa Drum; Kerewa people, Gulf province, Papua New Guinea.Of classical form, the long drum of narrow tapering form, the lower third of the body deeply incised with curvilinear designs and pig

A Fine and old Northern Kuba mask, Kuba- Ngeende or Ngongo; D.R. CongoA fine 'Nyibita' mask of exceedingly attenuated form, the flat narrow forehead deeply carved into the recesses of the ocular orbit