Standing female figure - Côte d'Ivoire, Agni
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wood, blackish brown patina, kaolin, compact body with angular shoulders and short muscular arms, the neck carved with rings, fanciful coiffure, skin scarification marks, slightly dam. (left foot and breast, coiffure backside), abrasion of paint, base;
such figures could belong to groups of various age associations or could be the property of a soothsayer respectively healer. Sculptures of human shape do have supernatural powers in any case. Female figures which belong to a soothsayer are said to roam the streets at night or talk to their owner in his dreams.
H: 35 cm, H: 13,8 inch
Lit.: Fischer, Eberhard & Lorenz Homberger, Afrikanische Meister, Kunst der Elfenbeinküste, Zürich 2014, p. 64 ff.
Continent: Africa
such figures could belong to groups of various age associations or could be the property of a soothsayer respectively healer. Sculptures of human shape do have supernatural powers in any case. Female figures which belong to a soothsayer are said to roam the streets at night or talk to their owner in his dreams.
H: 35 cm, H: 13,8 inch
Lit.: Fischer, Eberhard & Lorenz Homberger, Afrikanische Meister, Kunst der Elfenbeinküste, Zürich 2014, p. 64 ff.
Continent: Africa
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Standing female figure - Côte d'Ivoire, Agni
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