Standing female figure ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Baule · ID: 3033931

Description

wood, greyish brown patina, encrusted in some areas, rising from a cylindrical base with patterns in deep relief, the fine carved hands not resting aside the navel as usual but above, a striking broad and strong neck, elaborate coiffure, slightly dam. (nose, mouth), missing parts (lobes, base), cracks, paint rubbed off, on pedestal;
presumably representing a “blolo bla” figure, the female statuette of a “wife from the other world”. But it might have been thought as an “asis usu” bush spirit as well. Unless collected in situ, the actual function of a figure cannot reliably be determined.

The object Standing female figure with the object ID 3033931 was last part of the auction 71st tribal art auction at November 24, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 157.

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