Standing female figure "blolo bla" ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Baule · ID: 3033363

Description

wood, shiny black patina, two strings with miniature glass beads, elongated narrow face with big lowered eyes, a fine grooved coiffure, sickle-shaped tattoo on the forehead, slightly dam., missing parts (feet), on base;
typically the hands rest aside the prominent navel. In this case they are both up to the breasts and they are carved particularly delicate.

The object Standing female figure “blolo bla” with the object ID 3033363 was last part of the auction 70th tribal art auction at September 8, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 244.

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