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Standing female; with traces of pigment; patina.
Female Figure
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Female Figure

Maker Lobi Artist
Date20th century
Place of originBurkina Faso, Africa
MediumWood
Dimensions7 7/8 x 1 5/8 x 1 7/8 in. (20 x 4.1 x 4.8 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of Rod McGalliard
Object number1995.28.38
Collections
Visual DescriptionStanding female; with traces of pigment; patina.
Standing male with hands at sides; traces of pigment and patina.
Male Figure
Lobi Artist
20th century
Standing female figure with arms pressed to belly, heavy cylindrical legs pressed together, round head with prominent forehead, cowrie like eyes, delicate mouth made of single piece of wood, encrustation on surface.
Female Ancestral Figure (batega)
Lobi Artist
undated
Standing female figure, frontal, small arms attached to body with hands placed on sides of abdomen, thick legs, tapering to foot with indicated toes. Head in flattened and heart shaped protruding nose with rings, coffee bean eyes, two poke marks for mouth ears pierced, figuring in red slip, white pigment indicates groin flap, traces of white along hairline and around eyes, white indicating ankle bracelets.
Standing female figure
Mexican Artist
100 BCE-200 CE
Standing male figure.
Male figure (bateba)
Lobi Artist
20th century
Round disk with relief carving on slightly raised perimeter. A hollow circle carved in the back. 16 carvings consist of 4 faces at cardinal points, with figures between them that are flanked by concentric circles. Traces of white pigment and patina visible on carved edge; powdered substance on top.
Tray for Ifá Divination (opon Ifá)
Olowe of Ise
after 1938
Standing female figure with three spherical neck rings, shiny black patina.
Female figure
Mende Artist
20th century
Finial surmounted by two confronted birds on a platform, and with traces of gold leaf and pigment.
Finial
Akan Artist
undated
Wooden helmet mask with naturalist human features, human hair applied to scalp which is also embedded with plastic or vinyl strips in red and green- arc, spiral double bars designs; black pigment applied to face, eroded in areas. Teeth are made of pointed strips of wood, some missing. Cracks and fragile area on right of neck; traces of applied substances on face, probably beeswax fashioned into strips to resemble scarification patterns.
Mask (n'dimu or lipiko)
Makonde Artist
mid-late 20th century
A thin metal spike with twisted portion on upper half, terminates in a figure, probably a female torso with arms at sides
Figural Hairpin
Lobi Artist
c. 1950
Two or three headed serpent form, made of a plate with raised lines in shape of a stretched out N, with splayed ends; areas on the ends have twisted wire wrapping in two sections. Two knobs on the large inside curve, and a loop on the opposing side, similar loop on the top of the tail end. Color varies from silvery to bronze; surface has whitish patina and material appears to be a lost-wax casting using cuprous metal.
Double-headed Serpent Pendent
Lobi Artist
20th century
Schematic figure with right arm bent with hand close to mouth, left arm down. Head, feet and hands are flat and rounded; feet are bent at ankles.
Shrine figure
Lobi Artist
c. 1950
Iron rod with horned animal head on one end, curved “neck”; iron chain looped on side of head; rust and encrustation
Shrine figure
Lobi Artist
c. 1950

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