Baule style statue - Lot 376

Baule style statue Ivory Coast Wood Height : 27,5 cm Feminine statuette firmly planted on her legs. The hands frame the bulbous abdomen. The face has classical features: arched eyebrows, almond-shaped eyes, straight nose, mouth carried forward, extended by a goatee. The hair is gathered in the form of a tiara and falls in a braided tail on the nape of the neck. The mystical spouses are statuettes that are receptacles for the spirit of a deceased spouse who manifests himself through jealousy by causing impotence or sterility in the living partner who, in order to ward off this ill treatment, has an idealized effigy sculpted for him. The base is damaged. BAULE STYLE - STATUE 27,5 CM