A Mossi bronze figural slingshot, Burkina Faso, with triangular pendulous breasts and a narrow head featuring a sketchy face, decorated with scarification patterns on the front and the backside, a crested coiffure, inverted U-shaped cuts on either side of the head represent side elements of the hairstyle; significant traces of use and age.

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, München 2007.

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Height: 19 cm
Weight: 523 g