Anthropomorphic head - Burkina Faso, Lobi
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fired clay, remains of red and black paint, beautiful modelled regular facial features, hairdo in five lobes, fragmentary;
two kinds of objects from clay "jar" were made for the "thila", receptacles and "bateba" figures, both were used on shrines. The specialists who made them were called "bateba me" - "bateba builder" and "blo me" - "pot builder". According to Piet Meyer, human figures with such human heads from fired clay were found in areas where the "natye" and "uer" cult had been established.
H: 12,5 cm (chin-back of the head), H: 4,9 inch
Provenance:
Samir Borro, Brussels, Belgium
Lit.: Meyer, Piet, Kunst und Religion der Lobi, Zürich 1981, p. 156 ff.
Continent: Africa
two kinds of objects from clay "jar" were made for the "thila", receptacles and "bateba" figures, both were used on shrines. The specialists who made them were called "bateba me" - "bateba builder" and "blo me" - "pot builder". According to Piet Meyer, human figures with such human heads from fired clay were found in areas where the "natye" and "uer" cult had been established.
H: 12,5 cm (chin-back of the head), H: 4,9 inch
Provenance:
Samir Borro, Brussels, Belgium
Lit.: Meyer, Piet, Kunst und Religion der Lobi, Zürich 1981, p. 156 ff.
Continent: Africa
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Anthropomorphic head - Burkina Faso, Lobi
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