Figure féminine debout portant une coupe · 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”.
L’objet Figure féminine debout portant une coupe avec l’ID d’objet 3042667 a fait partie de la dernière vente aux enchères 87e vente aux enchères Tribal Art dans 11 novembre 2017 le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes. L’objet portant le numéro de lot 133 a atteint un prix de vente de 400 €.
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Publications
Katsouros, Floros, Tyohèpté Palé, Hannover 2009, p. 67, ill. 9
AHDRC: 0147189