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photo Kachina Doll

North America | Arizona

Kachina Doll

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New AcQuisitions | Papua New Guinea

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North America | Arizona

Poupée Kachina

photo Lobi figure

Africa | Burkina Faso

Lobi figure

photo Kachina doll

North America | Arizona

Kachina doll

New AcQuisitions | Australia

Churinga

photo Kachina Doll

North America | Arizona

Kachina Doll

photo Kachina Doll

North America | New Mexico, USA

Kachina Doll

photo Totokia club

New AcQuisitions | Fiji

Totokia club

New AcQuisitions | Papua New Guinea

Gope

photo Kachina Doll

North America | Arizona

Kachina Doll

North America | Canada

Spoon

photo Bambara Antelope

Africa | Mali

Bambara Antelope

photo Kachina Doll

North America | Arizona

Kachina Doll

photo Phantom Shield

New AcQuisitions | Papua New Guinea

Phantom Shield

Archives | Nigeria

Ibeji

photo Thule Whale

North America | Alaska

Thule Whale

photo Thule Seal

North America | Alaska

Thule Seal

photo Clay doll

Archives | U.S.A.

Clay doll

photo Phantom Shield

New AcQuisitions | Papua New Guinea

Phantom Shield

photo Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952)

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Edward S. Curtis
(1868-1952)

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Summer is finally here! ☀ How about a visit this

Summer is finally here! ☀
How about a visit this week at the gallery to discover our selection of artworks from Africa, Oceania and North America?
We look forward to guiding you through the infinite variations of human and spirit representations in a world-tour of ancient art!

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Let’s continue our discovery of feminity in the

Let’s continue our discovery of feminity in the ancient arts of Africa, America and Oceania with this exceptionally expressive and powerful figure from Burkina Faso. This rare female figure conveys an intense sense of sacredness and strength. It honors a woman whose great age, wisdom, and experience elevated her to the rank of a living ancestor. She is an intermediary between the living and the spirits of the family's ancestors.

Although this figure was long thought to be of Mossi or Bobo Fing origin, recent studies would rather point to a Bobo or Tiéfo (Tchifo) origin. As early as the beginning of the 20th century, such authors and ethnographers as Ruelle (1904), Tauxier (1917) and Frobenius (1926) started mentioning Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) statuary; but it was not until the 1960s that the meaning of such sculpture was understood.

According to Roy (“Art of the Upper Volta Rivers”, 1987), the main purpose of these statues is to affirm the authority of the chief (naba). They personify him either at his funeral or in the context of offerings to ancestors. In this case, they are kept inside the kimse roogo, the hut of the chief's oldest wife.

Their very occasional use and conservation in a sheltered place explain why these statues are so rare, each one having its own distinctive style. C. Roy also notes that “an artist sometimes only sculpts one or two statues of a chief in his lifetime; and he can only work for one or two chiefs in the region. Thus, the statues kept by a chief are frequently the result of work carried out by several sculptors over several generations of chiefs of the same clan.”
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Female figure
Bobo or Tiefo people
Burkina Faso
Early 20th century or earlier
Ex Sotheby’s Paris, 8 Juin 2007 lot 44
Yale University Art African Art – GvR Archive 0079331

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