African Tribal Art - Baoule Statue

French collection of African art.

About sixty ethnic groups populate the Ivory Coast, including the Baoulé, in the center, Akans from Ghana, people of the savannah, practicing hunting and agriculture just like the Gouro from whom they borrowed cults and masks. Two types of Waka-Sona statues are in fact produced by the Baoulé in the ritual framework: those which evoke an assiè oussou, being of the earth, and which are part of a set of statues intended to be used as a medium tool by the Komien diviners, the latter being selected by the Asye Usu spirits in order to communicate the revelations of the afterlife. The second type of statues are the spouses of the afterlife, masculine, the Blolo bian or feminine, the blolo bia.

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