Seated figure "bateba bambar"/"bateba ti bala" ·  Burkina Faso, Lobi · ID: 3035753

Description

wood, slightly encrusted brown patina, showing two heads and characteristics of both sexes, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion;
a mixture of the type of “paralyzed bateba” - “bateba bambar” (because they cannot move, they have to watch the house) and “extraordinary people” (“ti bala”), showing unusal physical features. Such “batebas” are said to have special power. The Lobi believe that an unusual outward appearance is equivalent with unusual talents and skills.

The object Seated figure “bateba bambar”/“bateba ti bala” with the object ID 3035753 was last part of the auction 75th tribal art auction at November 30, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 160.

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