Carved Stone Abstract Animals


Abstracts: Shona artists' hand-carved stone sculptures of African animals

Shona artists, as well as creators of African art from other local and regional groups have long been exponents of the abstract.  We see more and more offerings which portray people in abstract form but continue being able to purchase a reasonably good supply of abstract animals from time to time.  African artists continue the use of different media, presented here by these abstract animal sculptures.  We hope you will enjoy browsing through this section.

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Incredible Bird by Mundara
A very lovely bird, done by B. Mundara. The piece is carved from an incredible piece of fruit Serpentine stone and the artist has used the natural stone beautifully.

This statue weighs 13 pounds 8 ounces. It is 13 1/2 inches high, 7 inches wide and 4 1/4 inches deep.
 Incredible Bird by Mundara
Price $185.00 Order Incredible Bird by Mundara
Lovely Dove (Njiva Bird)
Lovely Dove (Njiva Bird) This lovely Njiva bird was carved from Cobalt stone, in varied shades of clouded dark green, and signed by E. Nyamasoka .

The piece weighs 6 pounds 9 ounces. It is 10 3/4 inches high, 9 inches wide, and 1 3/4 inches deep.
Price $195.00 Order Lovely Dove (Njiva Bird)
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