Standing female figure "asie usu" or "blolo bla" · Côte d'Ivoire, Baule · ID: 3038995
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Size
H: 32,5 cm
H: 12.8 inch
Description
wood, reddish brown patina, black paint, beautiful modelled body, slender neck and regular facial features, especially beautiful when looking at it in profile, unusual: scarifications arranged in a circle around nose and mouth, slightly dam., fine cracks (left side of the body), strong abrasion of paint, base;
sacrificial traces refer to a former usage as “asie usu” figure (bush spirit).
The object Standing female figure “asie usu” or “blolo bla” with the object ID 3038995 was last part of the auction 80th Tribal Art Auction at June 27, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 253.
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