Description: A WOOD FIGURE
Mali/ Burkina Faso, Bobo
120 cm high
Provenance: Vittorio Bellini (1936-2009) collection.
This kind of spectacular sculpture - abstract in its most modern forms - is to be related to the cults of the Koro society: in addition to being charged with magical powers, those who possess it demonstrate to the rest of the community a high social status.