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Description : Standing male figure Burkina Faso, Gurunsi wood, partly shiny patina, protruding mouth and big ears, min. dam., missing part (left foot tip), cracks, slight traces of abrasion, on wooden base, in contrast to the masks, which were performed in public, the figural objects of the Gurunsi were strictly kept hidden. They are exclusively used for sooth-saying and were kept in special shrines for the rest of the time. H: 29 cm H: 11.4 inch Exposed in Traditional Art from the West African Savanna, Lucien Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium, October 2010 Published in van de Velde, Lucien, Traditional art from the West African Savanna, Antwerpen 2010 GVR Archives Registration No. 0126643 Literature Roy, Christopher, Art of the Upper Volta Rivers, Paris 1987, p. 251, ill. 213
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