I believe your mask was made by a Yoruba carver (Nigeria & Benin), for the Gelede Society. It is a helmet mask, worn on top of the head rather...
No, not Native American. And not a traditional (made for their own use) type of artwork from anywhere that I recognize. I think it has a tribal...
All correct! In addition to the mirror-like quality of daguerreotypes, as the image surface is silver you sometimes see tarnishing, often...
As AJ just said, it looks like it is made of dyed strips of bone.
taken from: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/digitalegypt/burialcustoms/cartonnage.html "There are four principal periods of use of...
The stripes are typical. I don't think there is enough detail preserved to tell if the figure represents a god, the deceased, or just a shabti - a...
His cap is known as a mechanics, forage, or wheel hat. They were informal wear, popular in the pre-Civil War period. "Among sailors, a pierced...
It looks like the image is a photograph of a drawing. If the support is glass (either dark glass, or painted on the back), it would be an...
[ATTACH] Many of the themes depicted on kalagas from Myanmar (Burma) are from Hindu tradition. The two figures on your kalaga are probably Rama...
A chromolithograph is, as the word says, a color lithograph. The term is usually used in reference to color lithographic prints from around the...
Sorry, in no way Hopi. This is vintage Hopi pottery: [IMG] Yours is made on a pottery wheel, which Hopi potters do not use. Yours is glazed, while...
I believe your piece is Yoruba (West Africa - Nigeria, Benin, Togo and part of Ghana), based on traditional shrines to Shango, the god of thunder....
From the closeup view of the edge, it looks like the painting may be on a heavy paper, which was then mounted onto the canvas/burlap. The little...
Probably made by a Makonde artist in east Africa - Tanzania, Mozambique - using African Blackwood/mpingo/Dalbergia melanoxylon, which has a dark...
There is a pair of supernatural monsters in Japanese folklore known as Ashinaga-jin and Tenaga-jin. Ashinaga has very long legs and short arms,...
Yes, flooding the market for such a low demand item will cause prices to plummet. I hate it when that happens.
Some relatives, perhaps? [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Seriously, I think the photographer chose a bad time of day, with the sun directly above,...
Thank you!
Thank you, all. I feel more confident about pursuing it. We shall see.
Yes, I cropped and rotated that image. :)
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