Sitting "bateba" figure · Burkina Faso, Lobi · ID: 3035799
sold
EUR 300
Provenance
Heinz Kolerski, Fellbach near Stuttgart, GermanySize
H: 16 cm
H: 6.3 inch
Description
wood, greyish brown patina, dam., cracks (head and shoulder right hand side), small missing part (left arm), the back hollowed by insects, base;
a work of the “master of the gems”.
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, p. 86 ff.