Ancient African Stone Figure, ex-Arnovick

Africa, Bura Asinda-Sikka area, present day Niger and Burkina Faso, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. This is a heavy funerary marker with an exaggerated buttocks and abstract upper body. The figure is probably fe

Africa, Katsina, modern day Nigeria, ca. 200 BCE to 100 CE. This is a wonderfully (almost)-complete hollow clay shrine figure with a metal bracelet around one wrist. The face is expressive, with a lar

Africa, Bura/Asinda/Sikka area, present day Niger and Burkina Faso, ca. 600 to 1300 CE. This is a heavy green stone funerary marker decorated with incised designs and a long face with mouth, nose, ear

Africa, Sierra Leone, Kissi /Sapi / Mende peoples, ca. 14th to 17th century CE. A carved stone anthropomorphic figural piece with an elongated head detailed with characteristic rectangular mouth, glob

Africa, Bura /Asinda / Sikka area, present day Niger and Burkina Faso, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. This is a thick-walled, smooth terracotta cylindrical figure with three nubbins representing sexual organs,

Pre-Columbian, Guerrero, Mexico, Mezcala style, ca. 300 BCE. A string carved, deep grey-green stone depicting a standing anthropomorphic figure. The ancient artisans in this region were particularly a

Africa, Mali / Niger, Bura-Asinda-Sikka culture, ca. 3rd to 11th centuries CE. A carved solid terracotta memorial head from a vessel or figure, with incised slit eyes and mouth, small modeled ears, a

Africa, Mali / Niger, Bura-Asinda-Sikka culture, ca. 3rd to 11th centuries CE. A carved solid terracotta memorial head from a vessel or figure, with pierced eyes and a slit mouth, a slightly raised no

Africa, Mali/Niger, Bura-Asinda-Sikka culture, ca. 3rd to 11th centuries CE. A carved solid terracotta memorial head from a vessel or figure, with coffee bean shaped eyes and mouth, the right ear deli

**Previously Listed At $350** Africa, Northeast Nigeria, Katsina, ca. 1st to 4th century CE. Quite rare, an ancient Katsina terracotta janus (double-headed) figure that once belonged to a statue that

Africa, Bura-Asinda-Sikka, Mali / Niger, ca. 3rd to 11th century CE. A rare carved stone head/marker from this little known culture. The entire marker is carved to resemble a human figure with charact

Africa, northeast Nigeria to southwestern Chad, ca. 3rd to 13th centuries CE. Unusual carved stone slab of a type similar to those found in the Bura culture primarily of eastern Nigeria but purportedl

Pre-Columbian, Central Mexico, Guerrero region, Mezcala / Chontal, ca. 800 to 400 BCE. Hand-carved and string-cut from a grey stone, an abstract, stylized standing figure with a characteristically ove

Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Teke / Yaka, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A carved wooden figure surrounded by fetish materials encased in painted cloth with a serene visage comprised o

Africa, Bura / Asinda/ Sikka area, present day Niger and Burkina Faso, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. This is a heavy, painted stone funerary marker decorated with incised designs and with the bulging eyes, lon

Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lula, ca. 1940 to 1960 CE. A hand carved standing wooden fetish or power figure created by the Lula people, neighbors of the Yaka, with a characteristically expre

**Originally Listed At $400** West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden figure standing atop delineated legs and wearing a shin-length apron with an exposed

West Africa, North Ghana, Koma, ca. 12th to 16th century CE. An elaborately carved elongated head from the Koma culture of North Ghana with traits characteristic of Koma figurines including wide open

West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. A female Ere Ibeji figure, hand carved to represent the female member of a pair deceased twins, adorned with incised markings represent

Africa, Mali/Niger, Bura-Asinda-Sikka culture, ca. 14th to 16th century CE. A carved solid terracotta figural fragment with incised eyes and mouth, a delicate upturned nose, a rather fanciful coiffure

Africa, Sierra Leone, Kissi/Sapi/Mende peoples, ca. 14th to 17th century CE. A carved stone figural head of a characteristically elongated and enlarged form, the visage delineated with assymetrically

Bura Asinda-Sikka, southwest Niger, ca. 3rd to 13th centuries CE. This is a large, handsome, hollow rough earthenware pottery figure showing a human with decorated arms and chest as well as hair done

**Previously Listed At $600** West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. A female Ere Ibeji figure, hand carved to represent the female member of a pair deceased twins, adorned w

Bura Asinda-Sikka, southwest Niger, ca. 3rd to 13th centuries CE. This is a large, handsome, hollow rough earthenware pottery figure showing a human with decorated arms and chest as well as hair done