Marionette - Bozo - Mali (No reserve price)

Beautiful colourful wooden marionette, used in performances by the Bozo-fishermen in Central_Mali. These spectacles were organized by artists from the Bozo-people. The marionettes carried in these spectacles represent animals and spirits present around the villages. Being fishermen on the river Niger, a fish as this item presented here, will be presented very often. Collected in Mali in the first decade of 2000.
Dim.; 40 x 17 cm.