Bird sculpture "lumbr" · Burkina Faso, Lobi · ID: 3040928
sold
EUR 200
Provenance
Gerard Sand, Brussels, BelgiumHans Reinmöller, Ratingen, Germany (1996)
Size
H: 11 cm
H: 4.3 inch
Description
wood, light brown patina, high-legged, craning head with long pointed beak, slightly dam., crack, abrasion of paint, base;
aside of anthropomorphic “bateba” figures the Lobi carved various animal sculptures, mostly birds, which served to protect their owner by warning him of threatening danger.
Comparing literature
Meyer, Piet, Kunst und Religion der Lobi, Zürich 1981, p. 113