- ANTIQUE AFRICAN RELIQUARY HEAD ON STAND.
From an Inverness, IL estate. Dimensions: 8.25" h with base 10.25" h Condition: Good, as in images....
[more like this] - RARE TAINO STONE ZEMI STAMP W/ LINEAR
GLYPHSPre-Columbian, Caribbean, Dominican Republic, Taino, ca. 15th century CE. This is a remarkable hand-carved zemi figural stamp made from a creamy white quartzite stone...
[more like this] - FINE TAINO STONE AXE W/ ZEMI FACEPre-Columbian,
Caribbean, Dominican Republic, Taino, ca. 15th century CE. This is an amazing and fine polished stone effigy axe featuring an abstract zoomorphic or anthropomorphic zemi figure...
[more like this] - TAINO STONE ZEMI DOG DEITY / OPIYEL
GUOBIRANPre-Columbian, Caribbean area, perhaps Dominican Republic, Taino (Arawak) Indians, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. An incredibly well-preserved stone zemi of a Taino dog deity...
[more like this] - IMPORTANT TAINO GREENSTONE TRANSFORMATIONAL
NUDE FIGURE...Pre-Columbian, Caribbean / Florida, Arawak People, Taino, ca. 15th century CE. A marvelous greenstone zemi figure of a nude male experiencing the transformational...
[more like this] - SUPERB & IMPORTANT TAINO CORAL ZEMI
FACEPre-Columbian, Caribbean, Taino, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A stunning and scarce life-sized face of a zemi (sometimes cemi) carved from a single piece of coral! The forward-facing...
[more like this] - GILT SILVER RELIQUARY CROSS, BYZANTINE
FORM, LATE RENAISSANCE ERA Probably French, having applied Madonna & Corpus Christi figures, engraved on her side with sun, moon and stars, serpent around the globe at bottom,...
[more like this] - (5) RUSSIAN & COPTIC SILVER & METALWORK
RELICS 19th c., incl. a silver reliquary with icon of Jesus in low relief, with Cyrillic writing, a Russian type bronze cross with adorning cherubs and ribbon visible verso,...
[more like this] - FANG BYERI RELIQUARY GUARDIAN HEAD:
Fang reliquary guardian figures are ritual objects used by the Byeri to obtain their goodwill. The fetish appears to be a hornet's nest and the wood is dry/brittle with various...
[more like this] - An Italian silver figural reliquary
. 19th century On a domed base with tripod supports the sides in three panels centered with cartouches chased with ecclesiastical emblems stands a winged child with open arms...
[more like this] - Good Lumbo Peoples Reliquary Head,
Gabon, the round wood head with black ridged hairdo, disc-shaped pierced ears, inset painted glass eyes, and slightly open mouth, the face decorated with black, white, indigo,...
[more like this] - Ghanaian terracotta burial reliquary
head. Child's head with hole at base back of the head and pierced terracotta at the ears and nostrils. Unusual intentional protrusions on the scalp see images for details....
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