A Bobo/Bwa staff Burkina Faso wood with a standing female figure with linear decoration

A Bobo/Bwa staff

Burkina Faso

wood with a standing female figure with linear decoration, with cowrie shells and a spike base,

61.5cm high, on a stand,

a Wurkun columnar figure, on a stand and a Yanzi/Teke fetish figure. (5)

Provenance

The David Morris Collection.

Bobo/Bwa staff - Jean-Pierre Laprunge, Paris, March 1992.

Wurkun figure - Christie's, South Kensington, mid 1980's

Yanzi/Teke - Peter Sloane, London, 1989.