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).