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African Artifacts~2
CV~BA90321 ancestral figure
Baule
(Baoule, Bawule) Côte
d’Ivoire
Male
ancestor waka sona figure.
Around 1 million Baule occupy a part of
the eastern
Cote d’Ivoire
that is both forest and savanna land. Baule society was
characterized by extreme individualism, great tolerance, a
deep aversion toward rigid political structures, and a lack of
age classes, initiation, circumcision, priests and secret
societies. The Baule is one of the rare tribes where sculpture
is produced for aesthetic appreciation as well as for
ritualistic purposes. Baule sculptures allow a closer contact
with the supernatural world of ancestors. The ancestral
statues,have a strongly marked, traditional style. The tribal
hairdo is highly stylized corresponding to the elaborate
hairdo still used by Baule today. The name of these statues is
waka sona, “wooden people”. Although the ancestor sculpture’s
main purpose was to insure the beneficial presence of the
ancestor, they had additional uses: to insure fertility, to
prevent miscarriages, to bring about good harvests, and
generally to promote personal well-being and prosperity.
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CV~BMF9382028
Bacongo African magical
figure.
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CV~AEH8392011
Ancestral spirit figure
listens to the living and passes it on to the dead
world.
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CV~DP943021
Here we have an ancestral Dogon pair. First Man and Woman
of the Dogon people. Very large and yet very beautiful.
The 250,000 Dogon settled in
the bend of the
Niger River on a plateau
surrounded by the 200-kilometers-long Bandiagara cliffs, which
overhang a plain. At first hunters, they now cultivate
their staple diet millet,
and also sorghum, and wheat on the cliff tops, which they have
had to convert due to the scarcity of water sources.
Encompassing several totemic clans, the Dogon village is under
the authority of a council of elders. Most Dogon
sculpture is created by blacksmiths, who work in wood as well as
metal.
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CV~SP84930
Here we have a seed pounder.
Believed to hold magical powers that govern food quantity within
the family. Here never lets the family be without food.
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