Lobi Figure - Burkina Faso (0336)
Lobi Figure - Burkina Faso (0336)
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Lobi Figure - Burkina Faso (0336)

$875.00 Reg. Price $1,200.00   You Save $325.00
The 250,000 Lobi are divided among Ghana, Ivory Coast & Burkina Faso. Each household leader or Cuor is sub- ordinate to a thila, an invisible pro- tective spirit who communicates through the intermediary of diviners. It is the thila who dictates taboos & who requires the creation of a new wooden figure for the village or household shrine. Lobi sculpture was only discovered in the 1950's. The Lobi do not use masks but create figures called bateba & heads sculpted on top of a post planted in the ground. These figures, are beings that are somewhere between spirits & people & may represent the dead or bush spirits. Heads surround the shrines of sacred huts & the bateba belongs to the thila & carries out their orders to defend the territory against evil & to protect their owners from harm.

Dimensions: 8.5" H, on a 1.75" W x 1.75" D base

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