A female Mossi sculpture, Burkina Faso, standing on large wedge-shaped feet beneath bent legs leading to prominent buttocks and supporting a slender torso, with tapering, hanging breasts, rounded sloping shoulders, the arms slightly bent forward, an elongated cylindrical neck supporting a spherical head, a slightly open mouth beneath a slender nose and heavy lidded eyes, a striated single crested coiffure, the figure displays decorative tribal scarification marks in accentuated lines and on the face in the form of an arrow pointing upwards; brown patina, traces of age and ritual use, partly eroded.

Lit.: Christopher D. Roy/Thomas G.B. Wheelock: Land of the Flying Masks. Art and Culture in Burkina Faso. The Thomas G. B. Wheelock Collection, Prestel 2007.

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Height: 29 cm
Weight: 2 kg