Bird sculpture "lumbr" ·  Burkina Faso, Lobi · ID: 3040928

Description

wood, light brown patina, high-legged, craning head with long pointed beak, slightly dam., crack, abrasion of paint, base;
aside of anthropomorphic “bateba” figures the Lobi carved various animal sculptures, mostly birds, which served to protect their owner by warning him of threatening danger.

Littérature comparée

Meyer, Piet, Kunst und Religion der Lobi, Zürich 1981, p. 113