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Beschreibung : Additional Information: This well used female figure comes from the Baule people of Ivory Coast, who are well-known for the quality and detail of their carving.  ,This figure belongs to the category of Asie Usu spirits.  ,Through representing bush spirits, the asie usu are shown as wild spirits in beautiful bodies.  ,These figures were used by trance diviners known as ",komien", and were kept in a shrine in the diviner&rsquo,s house where the spirit of the bush could inhabit or metaphorically &lsquo,sit&rsquo, on the figure.  ,In addition to the idealized beauty of this figure, other shrine objects are not carved and may be simple daubs of clay or pans filled with magical substances or roughly shaped figures.  ,Diviners will perform in public where the spirit will possess them or will advise clients in private close by their shrine. Recommended reading: P. L. Ravenhill: Baule Statuary Art: Meaning and Modernization, Institute for the Study of Human Issues, Working Paper 5 (Philadelphia, 1980)S. M. Vogel: Beauty in the Eyes of the Baule: Aesthetics and Cultural Values, Institute for the Study of Human Issues, Working Paper 6 (Philadelphia,1980)S. M. Vogel, Baule, African Art, Western Eyes. 1997  ,
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