Figural pendant "bateba"

Burkina Faso, Lobi

Provenance	Size	Starting price / estimated price
Wilfried Glar, Eschweiler, Germany	H: 3.3 inch	This object is not available anymore.

copper alloy (bronze, brass),

According to Wilfried Glar, this early piece was probably made for a Lobi around 1900 by a skilled Mande-based caster. According to Klaus Schneider, the Lobi learned casting only after 1920.

Schneider, Klaus, Handwerk und materialisierte Kultur der Lobi in Burkina Faso, Stuttgart 1990

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