BLOLO BLA FIGURE - Baule - Côte d'Ivoire

Beautiful Female Spirit Spouse, Blolo Bla, of the Baule people living in Ivory Coast.
Ex collection of Wolfgang Jaenicke - D.
Now in my personal Dutch collection.

The figure is sitting on a stool.
Material: wood. Tiny old chip at the right breast.
With scarifications all over the body. Smooth brown skin, long neck, the body well-proportioned.

A wife from the other world (blolo bla). Every Baule lived with such a spirit spouse, his was blolo bla, hers blolo bian (male). When diviners suspected the spirit spouse of causing personal problems (often sexual), the affected individual had to commission a statue for the jealous spirit. That figure needed to be beautiful to avoid further offence.