Seated female "bateba" figure · Burkina Faso, Lobi · ID: 3036296
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Size
H: 23,5 cm
H: 9.3 inch
Description
wood, partly shiny dark brown patina, star-shaped base, overlength arms almost reaching to the feet, small hole on top of the head, min. dam., fine cracks, slight traces of abrasion;
presumably representing the type of “paralyzed bateba” - “bateba bambar”. Because they cannot move, they have to watch the house.
The object Seated female “bateba” figure with the object ID 3036296 was last part of the auction 76th tribal art auction at March 22, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 157.
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