Tribal Art

Ex-Belgian tribal art collection.
Sculpted figure embodying a sacred ancestor, elaborated following various rituals prescribed by the diviner and to which the descendants joined. It was after the extinction of the lineage that one could separate from the object. Deeply hollowed on either side of a meditative face, the large ears fit under a hairstyle pulled back. The treatment of the upper part of the bust is distinctive of the group, while the arms with fingered hands frame a slender morphology. Drips of dark color, others reddish, can be read on the patina rubbed with ocher. Thick deposits on the top and on the shoulders, mixed with twigs. erosions. The populations of the same cultural region, grouped together under the name "lobi", form a fifth of the inhabitants of Burkina Faso. Few in number in Ghana, they have also settled in the north of Côte d'Ivoire.