Maternité · Burkina Faso, Mossi/Senufo border · ID: 3042051

Name: Maternité
SKU: 3042051
Availability: Discontinued

not available anymore

Provenance

Bruno Frey, Arnay le Duc, France

Size

H: 58 cm

H: 22.8 inch

Description

wood, brown patina, black paint, traces of kaolin, carrying two children, broad rounded shoulders and flat triangular breasts, incised linear scrarification marks, dam., cracks, insect caused missing parts (neck, left arm, seat), corpus of the stool and figures lower legs missing (insect caused/cut), base;
in contrast to masks, which are used by the “tengabisi” in family religious ceremonies, figures are used by the “nakomsè” in a political context, as visual affirmations of the “nam” or right to rule.

The object Maternité with the object ID 3042051 was last part of the auction 85th Tribal Art Auction at March 4, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 149.

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