"Small Anthropomorphic Statuette - Kulango Culture, Ivory Coast And Ghana - Circa 1900"
Small ANTHROPOMORPHE STATUTE with bent legs, her feet forming a trapezoidal base, characteristic of the culture. Her hands, with their incised fingers, rest on her knees, which are themselves folded over a bulging belly with a protruding umbilicus.
Its stylised face is punctuated by two small protuberances on the sides, referring to its ears or short plaits.
It probably represents an ancestor.
Kulango culture, Ivory Coast and Ghana, circa 1900 Copper alloy
H. 11; L 3.2 cm (restoration)
Bibliography: A similar example is reproduced in the book Afrique de l'Ouest Bronzes et autres alliages by André Blandin, p.192.
N° B11 from the exhibition ‘BRONZES, MINIATURES MONUMENTALES’, part two
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