Mysterious figure / hand puppet in cloth cape
Burkina Faso, Bobo
sold
EUR 200
Provenance
Private Collection, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (acquired in Overvolta, ca. 1985)Size
H: 25 cm
H: 9.8 inch
Description
wood, aluminium, fabric, plant fibres, base
A comparable figure published in Roy, 2007, cat. 206.
He assumes that figures of this kind belonged to the equipment of a diviner who had the spirits speak through the figures by means of ventriloquism.