Bird - Lobi People, Burkina Faso
Bird - Lobi People, Burkina Faso
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Bird - Lobi People, Burkina Faso

$395.00
The Lobi people number 250,000 and live across Burkina Faso, the Ivory Coast and Ghana. They revere spirits known as "thila" for which many shrines are built. Animals have a significant role as auxiliaries to help the "bateba" (carved divination figures) to carry out their mission as intermediaries with the "thila". As a creature of heaven and earth, the bird serves as a link with the ancestral realm.
A thil takes the form of a bird so that it will be able to fly quickly to warn its owner of threatening danger, even if its owner is working in a distant field or is away from the community on a trading trip.

Height: 5 1/2" x Width: 1 3/4" x Length: 8" - on a metal 4" x 4" base.

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