This is a well patinated and rare shaped headrest from Ethiopia . The patina is very well developed. Tactile and smooth throughout. The engravings are worn down with age. It has a rare crescent shaped

 

PIPE: FACE-EFFIGY, CONTACT-PERIOD, Webster Parish, Northern Louisiana, 19th Century Length: 3” Width: 2” Depth: 1 ½” Weight: 2.6 oz In the late 1800s, just outside of the city of Springhill in

 

This lovely Toposa headrest closely resembles one seen in the online collection of the Pitt-Rivers Museum of Oxford and attributed to the Toposa of Southern Sudan. That museum description also referen

 

archipelagoarts Store ANCIENT COLLINGWOOD BAY COMB NEW GUINEA ANCIENT COLLINGWOOD BAY COMB This ancient shell comb comes from Moi Biri in the Collingwood Bay area. It would have been worn horizontally

 

OLD ORIGINAL NKISI NKONDI NAIL FETISH Origin: Congo Basin, Congo / Central Africa Estimate: early colonial Nkisi is the general name for a spirit, or for any object that spirit inhabits. It is applied

 

tribal*focus Store Old Nepal Himalaya SUPER AGED TRIBAL STRIPED GLASS CHEVRON BEADS OLD, AUTHENTIC AND USED 30 GREAT AGED HIMALAYAN MULTICOLOURED GLASS CHEVRON BEADS from Nepal, Himalayan Mountain Are

 

Solomon Islands wood paddle war club from before the turn of the twentieth century. The carving and quality indicate it was made before or just after the arrival of europeans so I think it was made in

 

Large Antique Hand Carved Wood Ivory Coast, Africa DAN TRIBE EXECUTIONER'S MASK with Copper Inset Brows and A Real Hair Beard From a Connecticut Estate Auction comes this Large Antique Hand Carved Woo

 

DESCRIPTION: FOR SALE IS AN INTERESTING POTTERY VASE. I HAVE BEEN TOLD THIS IS SOUTH AMERICAN POTTERY. I DO NOT KNOW THE PERIOD IN WHICH IT WAS MADE? IF SOMEONE CAN TELL ME WHEN THIS WAS MADE IT WOULD

 

A Mexican 'Day of the Dead' sugar skull mask. Carved from light timber and hand painted overall, the eyebrows appear to be of natural (horse?) hair. Measuring 22cm x 21cm there are a few inactive worm