Wooden Female Sculpture Burkina Faso

$800 · Offered by Second Story Books

A carved wooden female figure stands in a frontal pose, characterized by elongated proportions, a cylindrical neck, and a large helmet-shaped head with a prominent central ridge. The abstract treatment, featuring simplified facial planes, prominent breasts, shortened arms, and powerful legs, emphasizes fertility, lineage, and ancestral authority rather than naturalistic representation. Such figures are commonly associated with spiritual, protective, and ancestral

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