Figure debout "waka sona" ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Baoulé · ID: 3045293

Description

wood, base

A figure of the same hand from the Jan Lundberg collection was auctioned on November 25, 2006 at Zemanek-Münster (compare AHDRC 0057808).

Baule statuettes are either of forest, field and hill spirits (“asie usu”), or spouses from the other world (“blolo bla” and “blolo bian”). All of these are called by the generic name “waka sona”, meaning wood beings.

Publications

AHDRC: 0122933