Small ANTHROPOMORPHIC STATUETTE depicting bent legs, its feet forming a trapezoidal base, characteristic of the culture.

Her hands with incised fingers rest on her knees, which are themselves folded over a rounded belly with a protruding navel, her stylized face is punctuated by two small lateral protuberances referring to her ears or short braids.

It probably represents an ancestor.

Kulango culture, Ivory Coast and Ghana, circa 1900

Copper alloy
H.: 9; W.: 3 cm

Bibliography: A similar copy is reproduced in the work West Africa Bronzes and other alloys by André Blandin, p.193, fig.2bis.

No. B9 of the exhibition “BRONZES, MONUMENTAL MINIATURES”, second part