A Baule standing female figure

A Baule standing female figure

Ivory Coast

with a parted ridged coiffure and with facial and body scarifications, wearing a glass bead waistband,

46.3cm high.

Provenance

Field collected by Dr Moses Malcolm, who worked among the Baule and Guro in the 1950s to the early 1960s.

Private Collection, New York, USA.

Private Collection, London, UK.