African Wooden Fertility Figure

BAULE TRIBE, EARLY-MID 20TH CENTURY A.D.

13 3/4 in. (904 grams, 35 cm).

A carved standing figure with an elaborate hairstyle tied back with a band; scarification to the face. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa.
From a Glasgow ethnographical collection; formed 1940s-1950s.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.

Footnotes

Baule statues are usually standing on a base with legs slightly bent, with their hands resting on their abdomen in a gesture of peace, and their elongated necks supporting a face with typically raised scarification and bulging eyes.

CONDITION

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LOT 2374