If that knobkerrie club was a golf club in his hand I would think it was Jack Nicklaus or Arnold Palmer :). Sorry for my unhelpful observations....
I hope I am not repeating others. The item is Chinese, the yin-yang circle is part of the Bagua symbol, most commonly used in feng shui. The...
Looks like soapstone, check with your fingernail on the bottom and see if it is soft.
The 3 colors with bold geometric designs have typical Acoma look. Jemez tends to have a light brown background. From my memories of living in...
On a closer look, You are right, european masks depict wrinkles, the Maori tattoos.
The wooden mask in that group looks like Maori, of New Zealand.
That's a fun dour look! That would be the tragedy side of a comedy/tragedy pair of theater masks. First guess would be a Hawaiian carver. Has a...
I think Kipolhoon is an artist from Alaska, family from https://kawerak.org/our-region/unalakleet/ Not sure about the Homer connection. Likely...
Guess- most decorative carving these days is from SE Asia, Thailand or Phillippines
Category Kapala, sanskrit for skull. google tibetan kapala for many images. No idea on value. Some are made from real skulls. One for sale for...
Here is a nice paper online "The art of Samoan Siapo" By Paul Tauiliili. Fa'afetai tele lava for bringing back fond memories :)...
I remember Mary Pritchard and the sisters who were teaching tapa art in American Samoa back in the 1970s, my brother studied with them when he was...
It has the look of cast stone to me. Large smooth areas, but pitted and gritty in the carving lines and indentations. Original carvings are very...
Yes, those are nicely made little baskets. When I lived in New Mexico I once remarked it was sometimes hard to tell the Native Americans from the...
Looks like a recently made decorative wall mask made more interesting by time spent underwater.
Yes, it looks like a modern artist. The shape looks too perfect to be hand-formed. An easy test is to place a finger in the seed hole and feel the...
Cool shamanic thingie? No idea, but I could see a pipe or soul-catcher use.
No idea. Does it make a tone like a polynesian log drum or slit drum when you tap the sides of the lips? Looks like American folk art with the...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Great information about Philip Thornburg. I also see for sale designs made of Argillite like this "Haida Totem." Argillite is a...
It reminds me of the kind of art found in gift shops in Anchorage in the 1980s, but I can't place it.
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