Lot 31
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A FINE BAMANA FEMALE FIGURE, nyeleni

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A FINE BAMANA FEMALE FIGURE, nyeleni
The tapered body with engraved cross-hatched panels, a series of circlets down the back, the engraved arms with the hands placed on the rounded thighs, conical breasts, small stylized face to the semicircular head with engraved coiffure and circular ears, shallow feet on the circular base, dark glossy patina
20in. (51cm.) high

Lot Essay

Goldwater (1960, p.48, no.82) attributes a similar figure in the Wilder collection to the Bougouni District. They depict the ideal qualities of young marriageable women, according to information accompanying another of the same style in the Tannahill collection at the Detroit Art Institute (Kan and Sieber, 1995, p.46, no.6).