Baule Vintage Female Spirit Mate Figure

This authentic vintage Baule figure from Ivory Coast is one of many unique figures of this genre: the Baule believe that every person has a spirit mate/spirit spouse living in a parallel world, the spirit world. That person exercises critical control over all aspects of one's life. When a person needs to solve any prob

This authentic vintage Baule figure from Ivory Coast is one of many unique figures of this genre: the Baule believe that every person has a spirit mate/spirit spouse living in a parallel world, the spirit world. That person exercises critical control over all aspects of one's life. When a person needs to solve any problem in his/her life, he has only to commission the carving of that spirit mate and communicate with it in person. This figure belonged to a man who used it exactly that way until he either died or he felt that this was no longer his one true mate and he got another one.

This authentic vintage Baule figure from Ivory Coast is one of many unique figures of this genre: the Baule believe that every person has a spirit

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Pair of Baule Blolo Spirit Spouse Carvings

Pair of Baule Blolo Spirit Spouse Carvings

This authentic vintage Baule figure from Ivory Coast is one of many unique figures of this genre: the Baule believe that every person has a spirit

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Baule Blolo bian figure - RAND AFRICAN ART

Baule Blolo bian figure - RAND AFRICAN ART

The Baule (pronounced bow-lay) people believe there is an alternate world running parallel to the world of the living. The existence of the mate is

VINTAGE BLOLO OR SPIRIT SPOUSE FIGURE WOOD PAINTED BAULE IVORY COAST WEST AFRICA

Seated female figure (blolo bla) – Works – Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

This authentic vintage Baule figure from Ivory Coast is one of many unique figures of this genre: the Baule believe that every person has a spirit

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