A Baule blolo sculpture, posted on a rounded plinth, blackened, aged patina, several age cracks, the reight arm fragmentary; collected in the Kebeci region, close to Yamousokoro.

The Baule also believe in a far-off place that they call "blolo". It is a place "which exists beyond sensory experience". The Other-World is thought of as an ideal world, a place of exaggerated perfection. The "blolo" is inhabited by human spirits. It is the place from which comes the spirit of a newborn and the place to which a person's spirit returns to death. It is also a place where each person has a partner of the opposite sex. A woman has an "Other-World man" - "blolo bian" - , a man has an "Other-World woman" - " blolo bla".

800 - 1.000,- Euro

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Height: 38 cm
Weight: 700 g