
Blolo Bla
Blolo bla, or female statue, which fully respects the canons of Baule aesthetics: a prominent navel, an image of the transmission of…
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Blolo bla, or female statue, which fully respects the canons of Baule aesthetics: a prominent navel, an image of the transmission of…
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This is a Blolo bla, or wife from the other world: the wife we left there when we came into this world.
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Feminine statue on her knees holding her breasts in an attitude of offering or imploring protection for a future motherhood.
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Former female statue corroded by xylophages. Overly long arms and excessively short legs.
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Small female statue of ancestor used in family cults.
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Sculpture of women of high rank as denotes in fact to appear sitting and scarifications, represented by engraved brass plates, in front…
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Majestic, ancient and great female statue, touched with the characteristic hairstyle of the masks of the Mmwo society.
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Statue of a naked woman who can represent an initiated young woman.
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A Thil is an invisible spirit sent by the Creator God of the Universe to help men.
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The Mende They extend through Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone and Liberia, and are known mainly for their female society "Sandé", which are unique…
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Strange figure of a slender woman playing the drum since it is the men who usually play this instrument both in ceremonies…
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Oroginal hairstyle formed by three vertical and conical bows that stand on the head as if they were three towers.
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Curious figure of hard and heavy wood bakongo woman.
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The Tagbana they have a very poor statuery so this statue has an unusual aesthetic for this ethnic group in what is…
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Former votive statue that has been used in family cults.
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Both the masks and the statues show the cranial elongation of the Mangbetu.
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Little votive statue of a dogon woman half kneeling in imploring position.
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A small votive dogon image that a woman with her hands bonded, in front of the lower belly, in a sign of…
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A woman sitting on an Akan throne with the scarifications adorning her body can only be a queen.
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Statue of a woman who perfectly respects the aesthetic canons of ethnicity.
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Little memorial statue from a small village in Baule.
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People discovered very late despite the fact that in their region, the curve of Benué and the border of Cameroon, between the…
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Archaic piece of the first third of the century XX. Rustic figure.
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Small statue of a wolfi woman kneeling with great expressive beauty and in an exceptional position within the lobi statuery, which makes…
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