Oceanian Bamboo Mask with Long Hair from New Guinea

An expressive tribal mask with pronounced brows, stylized features, and traces of red and black pigment, reflecting its ceremonial origins. This hand-carved and painted wooden mask ...

This striking wooden figure stands tall and elongated, carved with angular limbs and an expressive, mask-like face. The exaggerated proportions — long legs, recessed eyes, and geomet...

One of a kind pair of beautifully-carved wooden wall sculptures of an African couple. Most probably from a region in DR Congo in Central Africa. One o...

This Art Deco ceramic mask, titled "Butterfly Geisha," depicts the serene face of a woman, framed by black, stylized hair and adorned with delicately sculpted butterflies. The mask b...

A wooden mask from the Salampasu tribe called Mukinka. The mask is covered with copper pieces from 1 x 2 cm and has a beard in vegetal fiber, the top of the head is also covered with...

Beautiful and unique ceremonial mask from the Sepik River area of Papua New Guinea made of wood, cowrie shells, feathers, clay, pigment and grass. Small parts are missing on the u...

The African Kuba Bwoom tribal mask is the oldest known mask, the Kuba bwoom mask. The materials used for the realization of the Mask are: Wood, colors and vibrates plants, caures, beads, animal hair. In dance it expresses exuberance and joy. The style is similar to that of the middle Kasai. This mask is a helmet with animal hair, carved with a very wide forehead and hollow cheeks that are announced by motifs or dashes and beads. The mouth of the mask is very pronounced carved in wood and then applied on the mask. To distinguish the forehead in different areas are used black and white beads to draw attention to other aspects of the face such as the nose and chin. The entire edge of the chin is surrounded by beads of various colors. The person wearing the mask cannot look because there are no holes for the eyes present; the mask must create the feeling of being blind. Some masks similar to the bwoom mask include the funny mask, the ram mask and initiation masks such as Nnup. The real Kuba masks...

A beautiful and large example of Oceanic art, this delightful woven mask would have been used on the gable of a middle Sepik meeting house. The wildly expressive form is accentuated ...