Tribal & Folk Art

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  • Vintage Dayak Ancestor Mask (Hudoq), Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) (1200TSK) SPECIAL PRICE

    Vintage Dayak Ancestor Mask (Hudoq), Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) (1200TSK) SPECIAL PRICE

    $485.00

    The culture, rituals, tribal and ethnic art of the Dayak (Dyak) of Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia is a mix of shamanism, animism and ancestor worship. Dyak festival masks worn on the face or large ones attached to a costume repel malicious spirits from entering communal spaces, insure village safety, protect babies in their carriers and defend…

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  • Vintage Dayak Hudoq Ancestor Mask Featured in Spiderman Movie, Kalimantan (1314ESA) SPECIAL PRICE

    Vintage Dayak Hudoq Ancestor Mask Featured in Spiderman Movie, Kalimantan (1314ESA) SPECIAL PRICE

    $1,050.00
    H: 23.375” W: 13  W: 6” | FOR SHIPPING INFORMATION CONTACT US AT 213-568-3030 or [email protected]

    This vintage hudoq Dayak ancestor mask has traditional Dayak features: wing-like separately carved ears attached with rattan that, like this, usually is replaced; long extended triangle nose, rounded arabesque-like ears and eye-holes, gnarled teeth, and geometric and curvilinear painted decorations. This one of three VA masks featured in collection of the Green Goblin in the 2002 Spiderman movie and is set on a museum-quality metal stand.

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  • Vintage Dyak Ancestor Mask Museum Stand, Kalimantan (1300BMK) SPECIAL PRICE

    Vintage Dyak Ancestor Mask Museum Stand, Kalimantan (1300BMK) SPECIAL PRICE

    $675.00

    The religion of the ethnic Dayak (Dyak) people of Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia is a mix of animism, shamanism and ancestor worship. Their word hudoq describes three different things: it describes the pests that can destroy the rice harvest on which their survival depends; the name of the huge yearly Dyak planting celebration and  the name…

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  • Sale! Vintage Female Doll in Ceremonial Dress,  China #1301C-EAO

    Vintage Female Doll in Ceremonial Dress, China #1301C-EAO

    Original price was: $195.00.Current price is: $135.00.
    H: 8.75 ”    W: 4  ”    D:3.125  ”    |  FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    This doll is a Chinese opera dancer whose costume decorated with 5-petal plum blossom on the sash symbolizing longevity and, with its 5 petals, a wish for the Five Blessings or Happinesses: prosperity, long life, health, living a virtuous life and dying a natural death.

  • Sale! Vintage Female Doll in Ceremonial Dress, Acrylic Stand, China #1301D-EAO

    Vintage Female Doll in Ceremonial Dress, Acrylic Stand, China #1301D-EAO

    Original price was: $195.00.Current price is: $135.00.
    H: 10.5 ”    W: 3.5 ”    D:  3.125″    |  FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    This charmingChinese Nuo Opera dancer wears a costume decorated with 5-petal plum blossoms symbolizing longevity and a wish for the Five Blessings or Happinesses: prosperity, long life, health, living a virtuous life and dying a natural death.

  • Sale! Vintage Heddle Pulley with a Mythical Animal (3303)

    Vintage Heddle Pulley with a Mythical Animal (3303)

    Original price was: $245.00.Current price is: $150.00.
    Ht: 12”  W: 4.125”  D: 3.25” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    Burmese heddle-pulleys are decorated with carvings of mythical or auspicious animals to provide protection and assure good quality weaving. A powerful ferocious Burmese Lion with open roaring mouth and thick main sits atop the pulley highlighting the area below where the weaving thread travels around the bobbin between the wood triangle pieces holding it. A fine folk art teak carving in excellent condition mounted on a a black wood base.

  • Sale! Vintage Hmong Soul Lock Silver Pendant Necklace, Thailand #T215DHL

    Vintage Hmong Soul Lock Silver Pendant Necklace, Thailand #T215DHL

    Original price was: $325.00.Current price is: $295.00.
    Chain: 28″  Pendant H: 1.75 ”    W: 2.6″    D: .125″    |  FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    This hand made Hmong “spirit lock” pendant amulet necklace was made with high-grade silver, worn as a protective talisman to “lock in” protective spirits. This trapezoid-shaped pendant is engraved with traditional Hmong motifs – dots, triangles, curved and lines within geometric sections, centered with two 4-leaf flowers and topped by spirals that may represent elephant trunks or coiled snakes. Talismans like this are worn as protective amulets soon after birth.

     

  • Vintage Ibeji with High Round Hat, Nigeria, Yoruba (1965BHA) SPECIAL PRICE

    Vintage Ibeji with High Round Hat, Nigeria, Yoruba (1965BHA) SPECIAL PRICE

    $385.00

    Ibeji carvings from Nigeria are idealized folk art conforming to Yoruba artistic and cultural conventions without closely reflecting human likenesses. Symmetrical and restrained with oversized elongated heads where one’s spirit, intelligence and the seat of divine power lie, they often have detailed linear coiffures that can be a third or more of the figure’s body…

  • Vintage Javanese Mask of Old Man Featured in Spider Man Movie (1318BER) SPECIAL PRICE

    Vintage Javanese Mask of Old Man Featured in Spider Man Movie (1318BER) SPECIAL PRICE

    $1,050.00

    Javanese Wayang (puppet theater) Topeng (literally “pressed against the face” or mask) is a very refined dance form accompanied by gamelan music. In Bali Topeng tua is the charming dance of an old courtier’s fragile movements, his lack of control and his gathering energy for a short lively dance. He sits behind a cloth curtain,…

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  • Vintage King’s Strong Minister Mask, Bali (1301-18PBE) $125

    Vintage King’s Strong Minister Mask, Bali (1301-18PBE) $125

    $125.00

    This ethnic and folk-art Bali legendary court minister (topeng patih) is performed in a special mask dance named Topeng Panjegan, as only one dancer interprets five different characters wearing full face masks preventing speech. Patih manis (Sweet Minister) is often the first solo dance after a gamelan orchestra introduction, and this patih keras (strong minister)…

  • Sale! Vintage Kuba Cloth Square, Africa, Republic of Congo H: 18"

    Vintage Kuba Cloth Square, Africa, Republic of Congo H: 18″

    Original price was: $95.00.Current price is: $75.00.
    H: 18″  W: 18″ | FREE SHIPPING!

    Woven from strands of raffia palm leaves, this traditional vintage bordered square Kuba cloth from the Democratic Republic of the Congo was made using vegetable dye and is embellished with sophisticated embroidered, applique and patchwork linear designs.

  • Sale! Vintage Kuba Textile, Africa, Republic of Congo H: 18"

    Vintage Kuba Textile, Africa, Republic of Congo H: 18″

    Original price was: $95.00.Current price is: $75.00.
    H: 18″  W: 18″ | FREE SHIPPING IN CONTINENTAL US!

    Woven from strands of raffia palm leaves, this traditional vintage bordered square Kuba cloth from the Democratic Republic of the Congo was made using vegetable dye and is embellished with sophisticated embroidered, applique and patchwork linear designs.

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