A Lobi Puguli maternity, standing on wedge-shaped feet leading to slightly bent legs ending up in prominent buttocks, a columnar toros with solid conical breasts, sloping angular shoulders terminating in arms bent forward with incised hands, holding a child in its arm, the thick neck is supporting a helmet-like head with a pointed mouth beneath a slender nose, the almond-shaped eyes are bordered all around, beneath high arched brows, downward-pointed u-shaped ears; heavy wood, remnants of encrustations and signs of sacrifications, several cracks, signs of old insect damages (the animals aren’t alive anymore).

Lit: Floros & Sigrid Katsouros/Stephan und Petra Herkenhoff: Anonyme Schnitzer der Lobi, Hannover 2006; Piet Meyer: Kunst und Religion der Lobi, Zürich 1981; Galerie Flak: Magie Lobi, Paris 2003; Kat. Ausst.: Lobi. Westafrikanische Skulpturen aus der Sammlung Greschik, anlässlich der Ausstellung „Die Entdeckung des Individuums“, Lutherstadt Wittenberg 2016, Berlin 2016.

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Height: 55 cm
Weight: 1,8 kg