Sculpture

29-12-56

From: Ivory Coast

Curatorial Section: African

Object Number 29-12-56
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Baule
Provenience Ivory Coast
Section African
Materials Wood
Iconography Female
Description

Female. Wood colored red except eyeballs (white), iris, outline of eyelids, eyebrows, hair cicatrizations, areola of breasts (black). Face marks: 3 broken lines radiating from point on outer edge of orbit, short broken line between eyebrows. Hair dressed in 3 bunches culminating in short plaits (including queue).

Height 57.1 cm
Credit Line Purchased from J. Laporte, 1929

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