AFRICAN Art/Statue - Large Baoulé Statue of Leader - Wood

Description: SPOTTED DOG DESIGN Superb and ancient statue of a king - Wood - Baoulé - Côte d'Ivoire Object Superb statue of an ancient king Condition Good Dimensions 63×12×13 cm Ethnic group/ culture Baoulé Material Wood Region/ country Côte d'Ivoire Sold with stand No ‘Waka-Sona’ statue (wooden being in Baule), representing a royal ancestor. This character is known as a great former king, with a very serene posture, as well as great wisdom. With many scarifications in the neck, cheeks, belly and back, the headdress is beautiful and refined.. The sculpture respects perfectly the canons of Baule art, with a sculpture of great refinement, the hands are placed on the belly, short and bent legs with well-marked calves, the hands and the feet are perfectly designed and are flat.The statuary consists in a form of ancestors’ cult, or in incarnations from the hereafter. About 60 Ethnic Groups populate the Côte d'Ivoire, including the Baule, in the Center Regions, Akans from Ghana known as People of the Savannah practicing hunting and agriculture, as well as the Guro People from whom Baule sculptors borrowed Ritual Cults practices and carved mask styles. Two types of Figures are produced by the Baule in the Ritual Context: The Waka-Sona Statues, "Beings of Wood" in Baule language, represent Spirits of Ancestors. They are part of a type of Statue intended to be used as a Spirit Medium Tool by the Komien Soothsayers. The Komien are believed to be selected by the Asye Usu spirits in order to communicate the Revelations of the Beyond / the Spirit World. The second type of Statues are the "Spouses" of the Beyond, Masculine, the "Blolo Bian or Feminine, the Blolo Bla, which represent the Idealized Sexual Opposite or Spouse. Beyond their aesthetic qualities, these statues also served to represent spirits (usu or busu), which inhabit the Baule universe. They were thus the object of individual devotions. This may represent a husband from the beyond, a spirit whose role was to watch over his human partner throughout his life, providing him with help and advice. But like any usu, he could sometimes turn out to be mischievous and mischievous.[2] Among the Baule Peoples of Côte d'Ivoire, human experience evolves out of and remains inextricably linked to the Ancestral Spirit World, or Blolo (roughly, "the Village of Truth"), which controls and determines the Fate of the Living. Divination Figures serve as Links to the Spirit World and are a critical element in a Baule Diviner's professional practice. Baule Diviners are individuals who have been selected by Spirits, or Asye Usu, as Mediums through which to communicate important insights into the human condition. The sculptures are often described as the Asye Usu's "STOOL," a figurative resting point for the Spirits. Divination Figures represent Idealized Male or Female Form in their Prime, which are considered by the Asye Usu as Desirable Forms to Inhabit, and so are used to draw the Unruly Spirits out of their home in the bush and into the Village. Vogel, S.M. 1997. Baule: African Art Western Eyes. Yale University Press and The Museum for African Art: New Haven and New York, p. 236. LaGamma, A. 2000. Art and Oracle: African Art and Rituals of Divination. 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