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$1250.00 3 more old colonial figures
item #388Ivory Coast - Baule This figure is 15" tall and dates to about 1915 from the village of Sakasso. Please click on the image to see 2 more. The second one is from Dembokoro, 11 1/2" tall, circa 1900. The price is $900. The third figure is from Kakaba, 12 1/2", circa 1930, $1,250. | $250.00 3 Shangos
item #255Nigeria - Yoruba Click on the photo to see all 3 shangos. The first one is 11". The second is 17" ($350.) The third is 15" ($300.) |
$75.00 Ancestor figures - Sets # 1, 21, 24
item #94Ghana - Ewe These figures are kept by a family in memory of specific members of their family who are deceased. Where limbs are missing or the body is imperfect the person represented would have actually lost that body part or would have been otherwise disfigured. Very often those figures belonging to a single family will share characteristics which imply a family relationship. The figures in these 3 sets measure from 7 to 7 3/4" tall. Please click on the image to view sets #21 and #24. All of the figures are the same price, $75 each. Please look further down on this same page to see more sets of these fascinating and widely variable figures. | $75.00 Ancestor figures - Sets # 18, 19, 27
item #510Ghana - Ewe The figures in this group are all approximately 5 to 5 1/2" tall. Please click on the image to see Sets 19 and 27. The figures in Set 19 measure between 5 3/4 and 5 7/8" tall. The figures in Set 27 are between 6 1/4 and 6 1/2" tall. The price of all is the same, $75 each. Please see above for more explanatory information and the first 6 sets of these figures. Please see below for all of the rest of the Ewe figures we have. |
$75.00 Ancestor figures - Sets # 22, 25, 26
item #672Ghana - Ewe The figures in this group are all approximately 6 3/4 to 7 1/4" tall. Please click on the image to see Sets 25 and 26. The figures in Set 25 all measure between 6 1/2 and 6 7/8" tall. The figures in Set 26, 6 to 6 1/2". The price of all is the same, $75 each. Please see above for more explanatory information and the first 9 sets of these figures. Please see below for all of the rest of the Ewe figures we have. | $75.00 Ancestor figures - Sets # 4, 14, 23
item #671Ghana - Ewe The figures in sets #4 and 23 are all 7.5" tall. The figures in Set #14 all measure between 7 12 to 8" tall. Please click on the image to see Sets 14 and 23. The price of all is the same, $75 each. Please see above for more explanatory information and the first 3 sets of these figures. Please see below for all of the rest of the Ewe figures we have. |
$75.00 Ancestor figures - Sets #2, 6, 10
item #675Ghana - Ewe The figures in this group measure, from left to right, 8 3/4, 9 and 6 1/4" tall. Please click on the image to see Sets 6 and 10. The figures in Set 6 are 10 1/2 and 10 3/4" tall. Those in Set 10 all measure between 9 1/4 and 10" tall. The price of all is the same, $75 each. Please see above for more explanatory information and the first 18 sets of these figures. | $75.00 Ancestor figures - Sets #3, 8, 15
item #673Ghana - Ewe The figures in this group are all approximately 6 3/4 to 7 1/4" tall. Please click on the image to see Sets 8 and 15. The figures in Set 8 measure between 8 1/2 and 8 3/4" tall. The figures in Set 15 are between 7 3/4 to 8 1/4" tall. The price of all is the same, $75 each. Please see above for more explanatory information and the first 12 sets of these figures. Please see below for all of the rest of the Ewe figures we have. |
$75.00 Ancestor figures - Sets #5, 7, 9
item #674Ghana - Ewe The figures in Sets 5 and 7 all measure approximately 8 1/2 to 9" tall. Please click on the image to see Sets 7 and 9. The figures in Set 9 are all between 8 3/4 and 9 1/4" tall. The price of all is the same, $75 each. Please see above for more explanatory information and the first 15 sets of these figures. Please see below for all of the rest of the Ewe figures we have. | $750.00 Baule spirit mates
item #389Ivory Coast - Baule From Mbahiakoro, 14 1/2" tall, circa 1965. Please click on the image to view the second Baule spirit mate, a soldier, 11 3/4" tall, $500. |
$500.00 Baule spirit wife
item #68Ivory Coast - Baule This is a beautiful, old, mounted piece. | $1800.00 Closeups of the faces of 3 Baule colonial figures
item #483Ivory Coast - Baule These are closeups of 2 of the Baule colonial figures found above, on this page. |
$750.00 Divination oracle
item #95Nigeria - Orobo | $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. | $450.00 Male figure
item #258Ivory Coast - Baule 18" |
$1750.00 Male spirit mate
item #262Ivory Coast - Baule 13" tall, from Lepe, circa 1910. Click on photo for closeup. | $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, 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. Please see below for a closeup view of the face of this very beautiful figure. |
$450.00 Old drummer figure
item #132Ivory Coast - Baule From the village of Ganada, circa 1985, 7" tall | $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. Click photo for a closeup. |
$1250.00 Old fetish figure
item #257Ivory Coast - Tagbana From Koutiala, 13" tall, circa 1900. | $4000.00 Old forest spirit couple
item #81Ivory Coast - Baule Circa 1890, 11" and 12" tall, from the village of Beoumi. Click on the photo for more views. |
$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. | $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. This is an unusually nice figure featuring her carved and painted kente cloth dress. |
$1800.00 Second old colonial figure
item #481Ivory Coast - Baule This figure is from the village of Boganda, 10 1/2" tall, circa 1950. Please see the explanation included in the item entitled "old colonial figure", above. Please click on the image to see 2 more views of this great old object. Please see a closeup of the face of this figure at the bottom of this page by clicking on the image entitled "Closeups of the faces of 3 Baule colonial figures". | $125.00 Single Ancestor Figures
item #677Ghana - Ewe This figure is 9 3/4" tall. Please click on the image to see the tallest of the Ewe ancestor figures we have, 12" tall. Its price is $95. |
$1250.00 Small male figure
item #260Ivory Coast - Baule 10" tall, circa 1910, from the village of Ndodelikoro. Please click photo for a closeup | $95.00 Small protective figure
item #666Togo - Moba 8 1/2" |
$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. 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. | $1800.00 Wedding spoons
item #62Ivory Coast - Baule The male spoon, mounted is 10 1/2" tall, circa 1965, from Ndolikoro. |
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