A male Baule sculpture (right), Central Bouaké region, standing on circular base with flattened feet,slightly bent legs, the small torso with arms and hands close to the abdomen, the large head with fine fascial features, the domed coiffure extremly accurately striated with a pigtail at the back; a shiny patina is verifying a high age and intensive ritual use. Collected 1991 near Abingoro, region of Bouaké, Ivory Coast

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Height: 46 cm
Weight: 1,1 kg

The Blolo Blan/Bian-cult is not an Ancestor-cult. It seems to be someting which is close to that inner world, which Jung is describing, when he invented his theory of "anima and animus". For me it´s always fascinating to compare the intellectual view of western science with the spiritual experiences of african cults.
WJ

Nguessan: If you had two girlfriends and one had a blolo bian and the other didn´t, wich would you take to marry?
Old Man: If the two liked me, I would marry them both.
Nguessan: No! You have to choose one.
Old Man: I would take the one who did not have a blolo bian.
Nguessan: Why?
Old Man: Because of the arguments?
Nguessan: What arguments?
Old Man: Instead of having a rival, I would rather take the one who had none. That way we would be equals (since I have no spirit wife) (Boreakpokro, Agba region, 1994)

Baule Art Western Eyes, Susan Vogel, New Haven, Yale University Press 1997: 258