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Descripción : Standing male ancestor figure blolo bian add to watchlistBaule, Elfenbeinküste wood, blackish brown encrusted patina, with round, constricted legs rising from a disc-shaped profiled base, supporting a stocky upper part of the body with extremely short arms, both hands resting aside a prominent navel, crowned by a narrow lengthened head with two-parted beard and triangular crested coiffure with lobes aside, extremely fine grooved and separated from the facial plane by a twisted, diadem-like head band, well-balanced, symmetrical facial features with lowered lids, the facial plane coated with ornamentally arranged scarification marks, slightly dam., cracks, right side of the head, back, abrasion, on base, the Baule believe that everyone has a partner in the hereafter. They are embodied by the blolo bian (male) and blolo bla (female) figures and they have to be treated well in order not to make them jealous. These very private sculptures were kept in the sleeping room, they receive sacrificial offerings they are fed and caressed. H: 37 cm, (4866/005) Provenance Hans Himmelheber (1908-2003), Heidelberg, Germany J. Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany Literature Susan Mullin Vogel, African Art Western Eyes, Yale Universitiy Art Gallery 1997, p. 251 K.-F. Schaedler, Kunst der Elfenbeinküste, München 2001, ill. 27
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