Standing female figure ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo · ID: 3037264

Description

wood, dark brown patina, carved necklace, bipartite coiffure with lobes, min. dam., fine cracks, slight traces of abrasion, base;
such figures belong to single persons, mainly soothsayers. They are indispensable for getting into contact with the “tugubele”, the small invisible and omnipresent bush spirits. The “tugubele” promise to help their human partners, when they are appreciated accordingly, which means that a figure has to be carved, representing them. Just like the bush spirits such figures are called “tugubele”.

The object Standing female figure with the object ID 3037264 was last part of the auction 78th tribal art auction at October 18, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 243 achieved a sales price of EUR 2,000.

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