Baoulé Elephant Rider Mami Wata Statue, Ivory Coast #1104

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  • Baule Elephant Rider Mami Wata Statue, Ivory Coast #1104
  • Materials: Wood, paint
  • Presumed seniority: Over 30 years.
  • Baoulé rider, ethnic group from the center of Côte d'Ivoire. Representation of Mami Wata, mastering a snake held above her head, and riding an elephant. Painted type patina, with harmonious shades. Fine and very delicate sculpture, teeming with details.
  • The painted statuettes cover very varied areas in Africa. Generally devoted to the worship of the ancestors, the geniuses of fertility or divination, they are found on altars, canoes, in houses or carried on either, among peoples as different as the Yoruba, the Fanti, the Akan, the Ewe etc.
  • They appeared with colonization, hence their name. Contrary to what is said according to some sources, they are not intended to ridicule "the white man". By appropriating the power of the settler, presented with an accessory of European origin, they fully participate in the animist cult. The settler continues to be born, in certain ethnic groups, and to appear according to the rites, customs and traditions of ancestral Africa.
  • To fall in love with these statuettes with fun looks and silhouettes. there is no need to be keen on the culture of African societies or to love traditional art. This is one of the specificities of this expression of "Art Colon". The touching and tender side, laughter, awakens the fiber of the child that lies dormant in each of us.
  • Reflection statuettes, hinge statuettes, they express a whole slice of history, and even for those who know how to dream a little, a whole slice of the future.
  • Measurements:  34.5 x 16.5 x 20 cms.
  • Bibliographic references: Colonist statues, Werewere Liking, Les Nouvelles African Editions  ;  Colonist statues, Werewere Liking, Les Nouvelles African Editions   ;  The Colon current, Alain Guillemain and YacoubaKonate, The traditional arts of Cöte d’Ivoire  ;  Settler art and tribal style, Sale 8/03/87, Binoche et Godeau   ; "Settlers", sale of October 25, 1987, Binoche and Godeau  ; Colon, Das Schwarze Bild vom Weissen Mann, Herausgegeben Von Jens Jahn   ; Non-colonial statuary, Baoulé, Agni, Lobi, Senoufo, Ewe, Alain Larem, Antonio Tocon   ;   The Baoulé tourist settler and the profane and cultural toy, Alain Larem  ;   African Art Western Eyes, Suzan Vogel   ;  Dreams and Reverie, Philip L. Ravenhill  ;   Mami Wata, Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and its Diasporas
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