Sculpture

29-12-66

From: Ivory Coast

Curatorial Section: African

Object Number 29-12-66
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Baule
Provenience Ivory Coast
Section African
Materials Wood
Iconography Female
Description

Female. Wood colored black except eyeballs, commissure of lips, nails. Eyes outlined in red. Face marks: short broken line between eye and ear. Hair dressed in crest with four flat concentrically curved ridges above and behind ears.

Height 47.8 cm
Credit Line Purchased from J. Laporte, 1929

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