African Headrest

Superb antique tribal Headrest / Neckrest From The Gurage/ Gorague Tribe Somalia Late 19th Century Tribe : Gurage/ Gorague Country : Ethiopia Superb tribal headrest with the Coptic c...

Boni headrests are amongst the finest headrests that can be found in African Art collections.

A fine Zulu head rest South Africa, A fine large Zulu hard wood neck rest, This Zulu neck rest is carved from a single piece of very hard wood with two fluted legs on each size and...

A selection of African headrests. Traditional hand carved personal accessory.

Showing a crescent shaped rest braced by flattened supports atop a cupped base, decorated with carved incised geometric motifs and exhibiting a mellow patina overall.

For your consideration is an African headrest, handmade in Ethiopia. In excellent condition.

Considered highly personal objects, designed to support elaborate hairstyles. Other African headrests are available. Sold separately.

A headrest or stool, hand carved out of a single piece of teak wood, and decorated with traditional carvings, with a braided leather handle. From Ethiopia, late 20th century. Mounted...

A headrest or stool, hand carved out of a single piece of teak wood, and decorated with traditional carvings, with a braided leather handle from Ethiopia, late 20th century. Mounted ...

A superb elegant example of a Ethiopian head rest from the Konso tribe. Carved in hard wood in with cut section in the sides decorated with burnished circles aluminium decoration an...

This 19th century African head rest is hand carved with rope handles.

Turkana or Pokot people's tribal carved wood headrest, stylized human form, early 20th century, Kenya, African.

A tribal art African headrest from the Hamar people of Ethiopia possibly dating from the early 20th century.

A small wooden headrest, most likely by the Kuba people of Congo, with detailed geometric carving to the top and a string of glass beads tied around one leg.

This petite wooden stand has a simple form decorated with subtle figural elements. The legs are carved into mysterious faces and a relief-carved figure lays perpendicular to the stan...

Authenticity is more important than age, and the fact that objects show tribal use and purpose and were not made to sell. Sidama headrest is part of a formidable collection of Africa...

A petite wood headrest, carved from a solid piece of wood.

Offered by Scott McCue Kenya tribal wood headrest, stylized natural animal form, early 20th century, African Early Rendille or Borana Headrest from Kenya.

An Ethiopian headrest carved out of a single piece of wood in a medium chocolate-colored wood similar to walnut with a beautiful burnished patina. It was made as a utilitarian object...

An African tribal headrest in a light, wheat-colored wood with incised geometric carvings from the Sidama People of Ethiopia.

An African tribal headrest carved from a single piece of wood with a rich, charcoal-black patina.

Hardwood trees with specific branch configurations were sought out by East African carvers to create headrests like this one.

An old and elegant late 19th century Zulu headrest. Headrests were used by men and women to protect the elaborate hair styles when sleeping. They were also seen as vehicles to commun...

As valuable utilitarian items and conduits through which men might confer with ancestral spirits in dreams, headrests were one of the most fundamental and ubiquitous works of South A...

The lugs below the rest’s “wings” may have once held decorative ornamentation. This headrest comes out of the finest collection of headrests from South Africa.

As valuable utilitarian items and conduits through which men might confer with ancestral spirits in dreams, headrests were one of the most fundamental and ubiquitous works of South A...

Ubiquitous in southern African societies, headrests were prized and revered as indispensable items, not only in their protection of carefully maintained coiffures during sleep but al...

An authentic African headrest from Ethiopia. These traditional pieces with incised decorative lines and rich patina are from the Sidamo people in Ethiopia.

Authentic African headrests. These traditional hand-carved pieces were personal accessories. 1.

Unique Collection of Sidamo Headrests in Various Shapes and Sizes, Set of 9

An authentic African headrest from the Gurage tribe. These traditional hand-carved pieces were personal accessories.

Chief's low stool or headrest. Done from a single piece of mahogany.

The various peoples of Northeastern Africa have traditionally fashioned small stools with three legs that end in pronounced, anthropomorphic feet. John Dickinson's famous white stool...

Carved from a single piece of wood, the African Ashanti head rest, Ghana, 20th century, has a curved top raised on two short pedestals rising form a stepped base.

Tsonga / Shona headrest South Africa / Zimbabwe Wood late 19th - early 20th C 13.5cm x 12cm

The Dinka of northeast Africa typically make use of headrests of this type.

An authentic African headrest. These traditional hand-carved pieces were personal accessories.

A set of two Ethiopian Turkana headrests made by the Dassanetch people. Selling as a set but can be separated, just work very well together as decorative objects.

A fine Tsonga headrest South Africa, Raised on 2 central pillars in H-form, carved in dense hard wood This type of Headrest is of a style only made by the Tsonga people.

African tribal fine old headrest Afar Danakil Ethiopia A superb rare example of a Afar or Danakil tribal headrest Raised on two central branch pillars profusely carved on the undersi...

A well carved geometrically abstract head rest from Ethiopia East Africa.

African tribal art A fine old Lobi stool or headrest Burkino Faso This piece would have been used by a Lobi herdsman, the antelope head carved as a handle would indicate his prow...