Figurally carved dance staff ·  Burkina Faso, Lobi · ID: 3034335

Description

wood, blotched brown patina, remains of kaolin, crowned by a seated janus figure, the headgear originally decorated with metal tags, min. dam., cracks, slight traces of abrasion;
figural carved dance staffs were used by young men. They ought to be as beautiful as possible (“buore”), so that their owners could “show off”.

Littérature comparée

Meyer, Piet, Kunst und Religion der Lobi, Zürich 1981, p. 152, ill. 204