Standing female figure with pot · Burkina Faso, Lobi · ID: 3042667
Heinz Kolerski, Fellbach, Germany (2008)
Description
wood, partly encrusted greyish brown patina, rising from long legs, with arms close to the body and flat breasts, prominent facial features with continuous browline, arrow-shaped nose and broad mouth, slightly dam., abrasion of paint, sacrificial traces, base.
A work of the carver Tyohepte Pale (1915-2001) from Gbakpoulona in Burkina Faso.
A large group of “bateba” figures form the “bateba duntundara”, which are supposed to protect people from witches and damaging magic. This includes the so-called “bateba phuwe” (= ordinary “bateba”), to which the present figure is assigned. The “bateba” become, in that moment, a living and active being, in that they are placed on a shrine and are subordinated to a “thil” (= superhuman being). It then turns into mixed beings, that combine human appearance and superhuman qualities of the “thil”.
The object Standing female figure with pot with the object ID 3042667 was last part of the auction 87th Tribal Art Auction at November 11, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 133 achieved a sales price of EUR 400.
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Publications
Katsouros, Floros, Tyohèpté Palé, Hannover 2009, p. 67, ill. 9
AHDRC: 0147189