Seated figure "bateba bambar" · Burkina Faso, Lobi · ID: 3038159
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Provenance
Didier Claes, Brussels, BelgiumZemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 2. Mai 2007, lot 164
Karl-Ferdinand Schädler, Munich, Germany
Size
H: 40,5 cm
H: 15.9 inch
Description
wood, matt dark brown patina, encrusted with kaolin, legs stretched out, head with crested coiffure and well-balanced facial features, min. dam., cracks, rep. (at the back of the coiffure), base;
figures depicted in sitting posture were called “paralyzed bateba” - “bateba bambar”. As they cannot move because of paralysis, they guard the house.
Comparing literature
Meyer, Piet, Kunst und Religion der Lobi, Zürich 1981, ill. 166