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Lobi bateba betise figure, Burkina Faso
24.5" tall
wood, pigment
mid 20th century

$1500

"Statuettes depicting a man and a woman making love (the man always positioned behind the woman), the thilbou
khe mounkha
, which are prescribed for single men so that they find a wife or to women to avoid sterility or wished
to have a child." from the article "Lobi Art and Culture" by Julien Bosc.
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