A large, female Bete sculpture, standing on wedge-shaped feet with slightly bent legs, the elongated torso framed by arms in open work manner with hands, which are facing the viewer, small, hanging breasts beneath rounded shoulders, the thick neck is supporting a helmet-like head, white coloured scarification patterns on the thighs, the torso and the head, the sculpture is wearing a loincloth an a brass bell around the neck.

Bete figures and a selection of Guro figures, The Africa albums, 1996, n° VI Boyer, Girard et Rivière, Arts premiers de Côte d'Ivoire, 1997, p. 56-57 et 129, n° 40-41.

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Height: 118 cm
Weight: 5,7 kg