A male Lobi sculpture of the Bonko region, probably from the workshop around Youl Bolare,standing on blockshaped feet, the legs slightly bent. openwork arm one arm touching thr abdomen, the other close to the body and fragmentary, a thick neck is supporting an unproportional large head of oval form with almond shaped eyes surrounded by high-arched brows, a small slitmouth beneath a slender nose, framed by small semicircular ears; hard, light wood, varied brownish patina with remnants of kaolin.

This sculpture was collected with three other Lobi-figuess in the Bonko region, which are pictured on the following websites and the sites before. The last owner said, that these four sculptures are cominig from the same shrine. The similarity of the patina could be an indication for this statement. This and the sculptures before are showing a high degree of commonalities with the first two figures, even mouth and eaers are completely different. I suppose these are different carvers but they have influenced each other in an intensive way.

Die Schwierigkeit der Zuordnung bei einigen Bonko Skulpturen. blog-spot wj

800 - 1.000,- Euro

Height: 82 cm
Weight: 5 kg