Standing female figure "tasé" ·  Burkina Faso, Turka · ID: 3052442

Description

wood, base

Present figure was probably part of a male / female pair of figures from the possession of a diviner. At the séances, the spirits spoke through the figures in high-pitched otherworldly voices. Mostly they were used when it came to the investigation of a death.

Littérature comparée

Roy, Christopher D., Land of the flying masks, München 2007, p. 426, ill. 229