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29-12-72

From: Ivory Coast

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 29-12-72
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Baule
Provenience Ivory Coast
Section African
Materials Wood
Iconography Male
Description

Colored black. Face marks: double broken line between eye and ear, single one between eyebrows. Long, narrow pointed face with the stylization of the mouth especially, are features of the divine style, and suggest that the figurine represents a god, perhaps the third member of the triad which compromises the sky, the earth and their son.

Height 41.4 cm
Credit Line Purchased from J. Laporte, 1929
Other Number 025 - Cast Number

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