The Niger Bend | A Selection of Our Best Items |
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$400.00 brass chameleon pendant
item #309Mali - Bamana 8" long | $195.00 brass equestrian
item #350Mali - Bamana 5" tall. |
$75.00 Brass equestrian pendant
item #357Mali - Bamana 1 3/4" tall x 1 1/2" wide | $145.00 brass horse figure
item #351Mali - Bamana 4 3/4 x 3". |
$1200.00 Chekko leopard mask
item #731Mali - Bamana 16 1/2", this mask is an authentic mask, having actually been made for and used in an important harvest dance ceremony in Mali. The interesting tradition of the Bamana of Mali is to make masks new every year just for the Chekko festival which takes place at harvest time. It celebrates renewal, new life, fertility and the continuity of the life of the village and the community. Please click on the image for another view of this great mask. See also item #256, another fabulous Chekko processional piece. | $125.00 Contemporary Design
item #121Mali - Bamana As the demand for mudcloth has skyrocketed, so too have the ideas for variations on the theme proliferated. These are 3 examples of one of those variations. These measure approximately 3 x 5 feet. |
$50.00 Excited male slingshot
item #274Mali - Bamana Both the size, 18" overall, and the shape of this slingshot indicate that it is not functional. The penis motif slingshot above is of the size and form to be real. This is another medium which allows the artist to express the interest Africans, as we, share. Please click on the image to see the female version of this object. | $600.00 Extra large contemporary
item #122Mali - Bamana This is the largest of the new mudcloth designs. 93 x 93" |
$250.00 Fifth old used Walaja with writing on both sides
item #696Mali - Bamana 21 x 7 3/4". Please click on the image to view the reverse side of this very old and used indispensable Islamic teaching device. | $175.00 Fourth old used Walaja with writing on both sides
item #695Mali - Bamana 18 3/4 x 5 1/2". Please click on the image to see the other side of this very used old Islamic tool for students to learn the Koran. |
$2500.00 Full size door
item #195Mali - Bamana Great quality reproduction. Please click on the image to see another, old Bamana door. | $1250.00 Large Bamana water pots
item #45Mali - Bamana These are genuine antique pots, used primarily for water storage among the Bamana people of Mali. It is impossible to know their exact age but they are, conservatively, 200 years old, having been in constant use for that period of time. The first pot is 18" tall and 15" in diameter. Please click on the image to see two more. The second pot is 18" tall and 14" diameter; the third 17" tall and 17" diameter. |
$375.00 Large brown contemporary
item #123Mali - Bamana These large designs measure 90 x 48" and 79 x 50", respectively. | $125.00 Large mustard contemporary
item #124Mali - Bamana 54 x 34" |
$2500.00 Long horn bull mask with birds and hornbill
item #935Mali - Bamana 44" tall x 20" wide | $250.00 More Walajas
item #319Mali - Bamana This Walaja measures 18 1/2". Click on it to view 2 more measuring 18" and 29", respectively. They are all the same price, $250. each. Both sides of all of these have similar writing. |
$2500.00 multiple head Merenkhun
item #948Mali - Bamana 54 3/4 x 33" | $95.00 Painted head clothes hanger
item #619Mali - Bamana |
$200.00 Second old used Walaja with writing on both sides
item #693Mali - Bamana 15 3/4 x 7 1/2" | $225.00 Sixth old used Walaja with writing on both sides
item #697Mali - Bamana 20 3/4 x 6 1/2". Please click on the image to view the reverse side of this fine walaja. |
$225.00 Smaller Walajas, Walajas without writing
item #320Mali - Bamana These smaller walajas measure 17 1/2", 15" and 13 1/2", left to right. Their prices are $225, $200 and $145. Click on the photo to view two other, very used walajas, whose writing has been washed off but no new verses had been written on them at the point we acquired them. The first one of these measures 27 1/4 x 10", $250. The second one measures 14 x 6", $50. | $1250.00 Tall Chekko mask
item #256Mali - Bamana 50" tall. Chekko is a ceremony held once or twice a year, always at harvest time in the Fall and sometimes at planting in the Spring. There is a procession featuring masks made exclusively for the ceremony that year; after that year they are discarded. Chekko masks from one year to the next vary greatly. There is a wide variety of their designs from village to village and from year to year. Therefore this Chekko processional mask is not old, having been used for only one Chekko, but it is genuine, not made for sale. Please see item #731, another beautiful Chekko object, a mask worn in the same ceremony. Please click on the image to see another view of this exceptional object, to get a better idea of its size. |
$200.00 Third old used Walaja with writing on both sides
item #694Mali - Bamana 17 1/2 x 5 1/2". Please click on the image to see the other side of this old Islamic Koranic teaching device. | $300.00 Walaja Koranic school board
item #318Mali - Bamana Walajas without painted decorations have verses that the marabout, or teacher of the Koranic school class, would write on the board and that the children would then copy, wash off and write again. These are the most common. This one measures 26 1/4 x 7 3/4". Please click on the image to view the other side which has similar writing. |
$800.00 Woman caryatid stool
item #826Mali - Bamana 11 7/8" diameter x 21 1/2" tall | Writing on a walaja
item #325Mali - Bamana This is a Koranic school teacher writing Koranic verses on a walaja for one of his students. |
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