Another vote for Chinese. It looks quite nice to me. Definitely could be a woodblock print, but you would need to see the type of paper and the...
The condition looks very similar to what I have seen on scientific instruments with a deteriorating lacquer coating. As you found out, if you...
The stone is known as kisii stone, from a quarry in the Kisii region of south western Kenya. It is a variety of soapstone. The Shona carvers are...
Like elephant ivory, sale or trade of rhinoceros parts are prohibited. It is a protected species.
I don't wish to be an alarmist, but there is a possibility that this is rhinoceros horn. The feature that struck me first is the steep angle of...
Early medieval sealing wax used a combination of beeswax and other resins, but after trade with India became well established shellac was used....
From the photographs, it is difficult to tell how much of the carving may be something other than wood. Amber seems highly unlikely, but it might...
That is one of the things I noticed as well. The features are quite traditional Benin, but the headdress, the treatment of the "beard" and...
I have been trying to find a photograph that shows how such hip masks were/are worn, and it has been surprisingly difficult. Here is one of Chief...
It is a nice hip mask. I agree with the gallery owner that told you it was from Cameroon. It is probably Bamileke/Bamun, similar to this one:...
I think you will find that some are still in use. It sounds like there was an interesting family collection.
Looks like it might be a contemporary piece made by a Kuba carver (Zaire).
Not Acoma. Possibly Santo Domingo. With so much wear on the bottom, it might have been marked in the beginning. @Taupou?
The plate is very nicely carved. The imagery is consistent with having come from Madagascar, with the zebu cattle, and the houses with the...
Back in the 60s-70s there were popular reproductions of the Mexican "Aztec Calendar" made using a stone composite, very similar in color and...
Your object is a decorative reproduction of a pre-columbian Peruvian "tumi" knife. I suspect it may be made of a cast stone + resin composite, but...
Yes, it was created using a woodblock. The paper is traditional Japanese "washi", made from the inner bark of various trees/shrubs. It is quite...
Unfortunately, there is a history of museums and galleries removing the wrappings and magical substances from such figures as these, and Kongo...
I think you are correct in placing its origin in the Congo region. But I think it may be made by the Teke. They have a tradition of creating such...
I think you are correct with the ID of the Jemez (rather than Jemenez) "basket" on the left, and the center one being from Acoma. The redware jar...
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