GothamGallery Fine African Art - Burkina Faso Lobi Bateba Tribal Shrine Figure P

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GothamGallery Fine African Art - Burkina Faso Lobi Bateba Tribal Shrine Figure P:
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Outstanding African Burkina Faso Lobi Bateba Shrine Figure – Fertility Representation

Inches: Height: 18.5 Inches
Centimeters: Height: 47 Centimeters
Measurements Figure Only
Material: Wood, Encrusted Material
Estimated Age: Early 20th Century
Condition: Good
Remarks: Stylized figure simple carving protective power aged surface

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CONDITION
Wood deterioration, scrapes and chips, worn areas, age cracks, overall condition good. Thank you and please view my other items.

BACKGROUND
The Lobi migrated into Burkina Faso from present day Ghana around 1770, and many of them crossed the border into contemporary Côte d\'Ivoire over the next hundred years or so in search of uncultivated lands. Although Lobi villages are often very independent and so politically disorganized, they managed to put up a strong resistance to French colonialization. They revere spirits known as Thil. Shrines are built to these spirits under the instruction of a sorcerer and placed either on the roof or inside the home and are filed with objects such as vessels, abstract iron figures, stone and wood figures known as Bateba, which are believe to embody the Thil spirits. Lobi Bateba figures may be small or very large in size. They typically have slightly bent legs with roughly carved feet and an enlarged head with a high smooth or grooved coiffure. Some type of Bateba may be carved with different postures corresponding to various Thil. Statues with single raised arm symbolize a dangerous Thil, while copulating couples or maternity figures are believed to enhance the fertility of women living in the house.

Painter Fred Uhlman words - Most of the artists I admired, Picasso, Modigliani, Deraini, to mention only a few, had collected African art and had been profoundly influenced by it. Shortly afterwards I bought the Baule Fetish and the Baule bobbin which are still two of the finest pieces in my collection. It is easy to see why I bought them and why from that moment I have never stopped collecting. The head of the bobbin or heddle - pulley which is after all only a functional object for the purpose of weaving seemed to me then and today as beautiful as a Greek goddess. The fetish moved me as deeply as the bobbin by its silent tragic dignity and its air of profound meditation.

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