Yale Wooden Spoon Ritual; Abolitionist's Funeral

Hand carved wooden ritual spoon with zoomorphic top finial and signs of handling and wear. Guro peoples, Ivory Coast, West Africa. The Spoon has been custom mounted and measures 8 x 3 x 2 inches. Prov

A very fine old carved wooden spoon or ladle with fish tail like handle and a well worn surface patina suggesting ritual use. Torajah peoples, Sulawesi ( Celebes) Island, Indonesia. The Spoon measures

Dogon Wooden Mask - 19th Century Aboriginal Indigenous Art- - Once ritualware for the Dogon people of Mali, Africa. The Dogon are known for their elaborate funeral rituals with extensive use of masks.

A very fine old carved wooden mask in the form of a stylized chimpanzee. Known locally as "Soko Mutu" such masks were often worn at funerals and other ritual ceremonies, the mask is small and was atta

A Carved wooden helmet mask with unusual ancestor face and swept back horns, painted black with red and white accents. A unusual style , a similar mask can be seen in the Yale University Museum collec

A carved and patinated wooden ritual figure, Abron (Ghana), 29,5 cmPresented on a modern base, total height 37 cmProvenance: private collection acquired from Bernard Ramatuelle in 1978.

A very fine carved wooden spoon with a highly stylized ancestor figure as the handle with ornate coiffure and classic form. Ifugao peoples, Luzon Island, Philippines. The spoon measures 6.75 inches lo

China, 18th/19th century, oval shape, turquoise glass wth polychrome ename? decoration, floral motifs on both sides, signed on bottom Guye Xuan, glass lid and wooden spoon. Eg in NICOLLIER "The Baur C

Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Huari / Wari, ca. 700 to 1000 CE. A hand-carved wooden spoon and palette, the palette featuring a rectangular depression used for the preparation of hallucinogenic s

New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, 1292-1150 BC. A wooden cosmetic spoon in the form of the hieroglyph Ankh meaning 'life'; loop at the top deeply cut to form a bowl; cross bar with two small lotus flowers to

A carved wooden bell or gong with two strikers inside, and male and female effigy figures faced in opposite directions on top. Elaborately carved bells such as this one, called madibu or sing dibu, ar

West Africa, Ivory Coast or Liberia, Dan, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A skillfully hand-carved wooden feast spoon or ceremonial ladle (called a wakemia or wunkirmian meaning "spoon associa

Consisting of 4 pieces of silver occasional spoons, including a funeral spoon, Klaas Djurrema, Dokkum, ca. 1774, described and depicted on pages 878 and 879 in the reference work "Fries goud en zilver

A very finely carved wooden ladle or spoon with incised linear designs and geometric form. The Dan peoples carve such spoons as yearly "trophies" known as Wunkirmian. This spoon and others like it wer

African American Stool From Northwest Georgia. Decorated with some green paint remnants and attached wooden ice cream spoons on sides and insides. Great as-found early condition. A little deterioratio

Group of Native American wooden tools and instruments, including spoons, hooks and more, 12 pcs. 7” - 13”L

Partial service including forks, salad forks, hollow handle knives, place spoons, teaspoons, soup spoons, iced tea spoons, hollow handle and wooden salad set, hollow handle large carving set, hollow h

A Nepalese gilt-bronze statue of female deity 17th/18th century Portraying a three-eyed deity holding ritual item. Sold with associated wooden base. H: 12 5/8, W: 8 1/4, D: 2 3/4 in. (H: 32.07, W: 20.

The ritual instrument has rounded interior and exterior with angled extrusions, the jade is of celadon-red color tone with russet and veins, includes wooden stand. Cultural age. Height: 1 1/4 in (3.2

the figure seated on a custom stand, her face depicts ritual scars while her left ear lobe sports an iron ring. HOA 21.25 in. Private Collection, Pittsboro, NC Additional high-resolution photos are av

A Minton Majolica Row Boat Spoon Warmer, c. 1875. The body formed as a brown wooden boat with a green interior, the gray rudder at the rear froming the handle, 7 3/4" Catalogued and curated by Nicolau

A large carved wooden feast ladle (known as wunkirmian or wakemia) in anthropomorphic form with incised linear designs, well worn surface. Dan peoples, Ivory Coast, West Africa. The spoon measures 31

The archaic bronze vessel you is of globular form, stands on splayed foot ring on top of wooden stand, the body cast with mythical beast and triangular patterns, a spiral lifting handle mounted on the

English carved wood one piece head and torso with carved wood "Spoon" shaped arms and hands, inset black pupiless eyes, human hair wig, cloth upper arms and legs, dressed in antique fabrics with excep