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Figure féminine debout "bateba" avec enfant ·  Burkina Faso, Lobi · ID: 3042680

Vendu 500 €
Provenance
Klaus-Jochen Krüger, Hamburg, Germany
Heinz Kolerski, Fellbach, Germany

Description

wood, encrusted greyish brown patina, slightly dam., minor missing parts (left hand), cracks (right foot), base.
According to Piet Meyer such mother-and-child figures should help women to get pregnant. The “bateba” anticipate certain events, which humans shall imitate. A further purpose was to drive off an evil spirit that should become dangerous for a woman who already was pregnant. The evil spirit should enter the wood object instead of her womb.


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