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Lot: 821
Bateba maternity. Lobi. Burkina Faso

Bat "maternity".



Ethnicity: Lobi.



Country: Burkina Faso.



The representation of "maternity" takes place among the Bateba, human-shaped statues commanded by the Thila, minor divinities that protect the lives of men. It is the fortune tellers who, at the request of women with problems conceiving, commission the sculptor to model a certain image in which their own artistic criteria can be expressed, giving rise to a free, varied art that is far from the rigidity of the dogma imposed on other ethnic groups. Thus, among the multiple classes of Bateba we have the "ordinary" who are not distinguished by any particularity in gesture or morphology, the "extraordinary" with abnormally deformed bodies, the "dangerous" who show aggressive gestures, and the "sad" that carry misfortunes and sorrows, avoiding the humans they protect from being affected by them, attracting wealth, good luck and fertility to those who revere them at their altar. 18x14cm

Object
maternity bath
Country
Burkina Faso
Measures
18x14cm
Categories
DECORATIVE ARTS
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