Little Personage
Lobi · Burkina Faso
Reference: BRN-133
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- Material
- Bronze
Small character with big hands in clap actud and body leaning back. It presents a large penis in erection. The sexual symbols in the African statuary…
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Full original description
Small character with big hands in clap actud and body leaning back. It presents a large penis in erection. The sexual symbols in the African statuary have no erotic connotation, they are celebrations of fertility in the woman or her fertilizing capacity in the man.
Further technical information
- Attributed period
- Mid-century XX
Details transcribed from the original catalogue; they are not a recent physical inspection.
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Burkina Faso. The country associated with the catalog is shown, not the current location of the piece.
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