Often called "settler", this ancient African statuettebaoulé forms, in classical sculpture from Ivory Coast, the incarnation of a spiritual husband. It is sculpted according to the soothsayer's instructions. In "African art, Western eyes" Susan Vogel reports that a figure of this type (p.255), an idealized spouse, is represented dressed in city clothing because the spouse is supposed to have a job in city. The earthly spouse, through the worship paid to this spiritual double, would expect to have his favors and his protection. Around sixty ethnic groups populate Ivory Coast, including the Baoulé, in the center, Akans from Ghana, a people of the savannah, practicing hunting and agriculture just like the Gouro from whose cults and masks they borrowed. Abraded polychrome patina, drying cracks. Missing (heel).
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