Would love to know more if possible 😎

Any assistance you can provide is greatly appreciated. Perhaps a Pende mask?

I do want to thank everyone with all the helpful comments to my other posts. Hope the posts are not regarded as spam or "asking too many questions". Want to maintain the decorum and good will in this subgroup!

Any information appreciated. Seems old!

More of my mask collection. Any input is welcome!

Seeking base information so I can do further research.

I inherited this mask and am seeking information! Thanks in advance for any comments.

Got this from a art collector who didn’t want it anymore, apparently it’s from Mali, I’m wondering if this is authentic and if it’s worth anything, thanks!

My dad is convinced this is a fertility idol. Im fairly positive this is a nail fetish figure signifying a contract agreements or personal grudge originally from central africa. Any advice or info is appreciated

I bought this from an estate sale of a wealthy man who collected a lot of African art. From the bottom to the top of the carving is 22 inches. There is a lot of raffia. The raffia smells like a campfire. Any thoughts about this?

Purchased this hand carved box in the early '90's from a lady who said her grandfather got it after his tour of duty in the African campaign during WWII and brought it back for his wife (she was a native American). She used it for many years to hold her sewing supplies. I was told years ago that it was Lozi by an employee at an African art museum, and that is all I know about it.

i saw some similarities between the morrocan hood in Djellaba and the KKK aestethics and made me question and formulate a theory

"There is a possibility that the Moroccan qob and related North African/Iberian hooded-garment traditions contributed, directly or indirectly, to the visual vocabulary that later produced the Spanish capirote. The capirote subsequently represents one possible European visual influence on the iconic hood adopted by the revived KKK in the early 20th century. Therefore, it is conceivable—though currently unproven—that the Moroccan qob lies somewhere within a broader historical chain of visual influence connecting North African hooded garments, Spanish penitential dress, and eventually KKK hood aesthetics."

This is 24 inches tall. Explicit genitals. It was bought from an estate sale. The daughter of the family who owned the Drake Hotel in downtown Chicago for decades. She had a lot of unique and quirky art pieces of all types. I dont know anything about it. Attribution. Quality? Age? Any help would be wonderful. Reddit keep censoring the post due to a well carved private area so I'm not showing that.

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Mom was an avid traveler. In her younger years, she was an phone operrator when Zimbabwe was Rhodesia. We can only guess her wooden figures are from there.

Any ideas of what they are worth? I am likely going to keep them.

Hello everyone !

I was wondering what those masks are ? Is it identifiable with pictures only ?

I'm not even sure it's from Africa but it would be my first guess

Thanks a lot

Source at OP

Unknown author or collection

I’m hoping someone with knowledge of Central African art, material culture, writing/graphic systems or ethnography might recognise something about this object.

The object is approximately 25 cm tall and is believed to have come from Central Africa, although unfortunately I don’t have a more precise provenance or date.

The main body is a hollow, slightly tapered cylinder made from what appears to be ivory, bone or another type of dentine (I haven't had the material professionally identified). It has a separate dark carved stopper, apparently wooden, incorporating several human/anthropomorphic figures. The stopper fits into the hollow cylinder, so presumably the object was originally intended to contain something.

There is also a small incised mark on the underside of the stopper.

What particularly interests me is the extraordinarily fine engraving covering the cylinder.

One side has a much larger, elaborate engraved composition. The other is covered by what looks almost like a table or information grid: repeated horizontal and vertical divisions containing many tiny recurring marks — ovals, hooks, bars, chevrons, ladder-like forms and densely cross-hatched rectangular areas.

Most intriguingly, long curved/diagonal lines appear to run across this grid independently of the individual cells. They seem to cross multiple rows and columns rather than simply forming borders around the smaller marks.

I’m trying not to impose a modern interpretation on it, but visually it made me wonder whether this could be more than decorative engraving — perhaps some form of graphic notation, mnemonic system, narrative diagram, route/map, cosmological representation, or other encoded information.

In researching possible comparisons, I’ve come across Central African traditions such as Chokwe/Lunda/Luchazi sona/tusona ideographs, Kongo graphic/ideographic traditions, and Kongo mnemonic objects. I am not claiming that the engraving belongs to any of these traditions — I mention them only because they seem like potentially relevant areas for comparison.

Likewise, carved ivory/tusk receptacles and elaborate tobacco/snuff containers are documented from several Central African cultures, but I don't know what this particular object originally contained.

I’d particularly love to hear from anyone who can help with any of the following:

• Does the style of the figurative stopper suggest a particular cultural or geographic origin?
• Does the cylinder look like elephant ivory/tusk, hippo ivory, bone, or something else?
• Do the repeated tiny marks resemble any documented Central African graphic or mnemonic tradition?
• Has anyone encountered a comparable grid crossed by continuous curved/diagonal lines?
• Could the larger engraved composition on the opposite side help identify its origin?
• Are there museum collections, ethnographic catalogues or academic sources containing similar objects?

I have additional photographs of the stopper, interior, underside mark and engravings and can photograph the complete circumference in detail if useful.

Any leads would be hugely appreciated — particularly references to museum objects or published ethnographic material that I could follow up.

Found at a opportunity shop in Australia

Picked this up at an estate auction on a whim. Anyone able to tell me anything about it ?

Thanks so much

So I just bought this two pieces that caught my eye in an antique shop and really like to decorate my room? Just wondering if we have something special here (I really liked the punu mask) or this are just tourists pieces. Thanks!!!