Yoruba Tribe Epa Cult 2 Queens Fertility Helmet Mask

A monumental carved wooden janus "Epa" helmet mask with a tall maternity idol on top with painted designs. According to Yoruba customs, to ensure the fertility and welfare of their community, they hol

A monumental carved wooden janus "Epa" helmet mask with a tall maternity idol on top with painted designs.According to Yoruba customs, to ensure the fertility and welfare of their community, they hold

possibly early 20th century, carved, polychromed, and dyed wood, consists of a janiform helmet with a pierced mouth supporting various figures, including a female figure on horseback with two addition

African Yoruba Epa Helmet Mask, Nigeria. Carved wood and pigment. On stand. Provenance: Ex. Estate Collection Isadore and Nancy Marder, Philadelphia. Size: 53.25'' x 13'' x 11.75'' (135 x 33 x 30 cm).

This is a vintage hand carved wooden "Epa" mask from the Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, Africa. A hollowed helmet-like form, with stylized facial features and surmounted by a complex coiffure comprised of a

Yoruba Epa painted wood helmet mask (Nigeria)Helmet Mask(Source: imodara.com) Epa helmet masks are used to promote health and wellbeing within a community by celebrating and honouring ancestors, cultu

Retail- $1500

Ethnographic Object Assortment Approximately (55) items, African items including a Senufo fire-spitter helmet mask, a Nkisi Nkondi nail fetish figure, a Mende helmet mask, (2) Yoruba ibeji twin figure

African Tribal Art: Epa Helmet Mask with Animals, Yoruba People, Nigeria. Carved and polychromed wood, mid 20th Century. The mask comes with a custom-made steel display stand. Epa masks feature a larg

Two Yoruba Orisha ( deity ) masks from Nigeria. One brown with facial markings and head adornments: 6 7/8" H x 8 3/4" L. One with crown and blue eyes: 11 5/8" H x 8 3/4" D x 10 5/8" W.

Lot of 2 African Yoruba Galede Helmet Masks. Size: 8" x 8" x 13" and 11" x 8" x 11".

A wooden polychrome Epa helmet mask with animals. Nigeria, Yoruba, 20th century. 49"h. Provenance: Collection of Stephen R Primoff, Houston, TX

A very large carved wooden helmet style mask featuring an elaborate Horse and rider motif and various attendant figures , atop a janus form mask face decorated with organic pigments. The mask measures

A Monumental Yoruba Epa Festival African Mask. Very large carved wooden helmet style mask with an ornate horse and rider, and multiple ancestral images, all accented with red and green pigments. Yorub

A group of two Yoruba Gelede Society helmet masks. Nigeria. 20th century. ++ Mask. 10 1/4" x 9" x 10 1/4" x 27 1/4" Cir. ++ Mask. 8" x 9" x 10 1/2".

Wonderful wooden belly mask from the YORUBA tribe, Nigeria. This kind of masks symbolize fertility and are also thought to be worn during boys`initiation ceremonies. Good used condition with slight tr

A group of four West African masks and fragments. Wood. 20th century. ++ Yoruba style Epa mask. Nigeria. ++ Dogon sirige mask and 2 fragments. 64" x 4 1/2" x 1/2"; 44" x 9 1/2" x 8". Condition: Wood i

A Group of Three Helmet Masks from Tribes of West Africa 20TH CENTURY including a Helmet Mask from the Mende people of Sierra Leone, and a   Gelede Mask and an Egungun Mask from the Yoruba people

Large African, Congo, Kuba Tribe Helmet Mask. Size 10 1/2 inches high, 12 1/2 length. Large carved painted wood mask with pierced edges. Provenance: Ex Dr Arnold R.Saslow South Orange NJ

African Yoruba Bronze Ceremonial Helmet Mask. Possibly depicting Queen Idia, mother of Esigie, Oba of Benin who ruled from 1504 to 1515. Size: 50.5'' x 8'' x 10'' (128 x 20 x 25 cm).

A wooden Yruba helmet mask. Nigeria, Yoruba, 20th century. 10 1/2"h x 16"diam. Provenance: Collection of Stephen R Primoff, Houston, TX

YORUBA, NIGERIA, CHIEF'S HELMET MASK. HEIGHT 16 1/2"

Three Carved African Masks. Yoruba, Balue & Dan tribes. Max. Ht. 10 1/2".

YORUBA EPA MASK NIGERIA carved wood and pigment, the helmet Janus faced with perforated rectangular section mouth, facial details in white pigment over a red ochre wash, topped by a standing goat fini