A Beautiful Baule Figure – MAMI WATA – Ivory Coast

Carved wood, pigment. Cm. 39,0 high (15.35″). Grams 825,1 (29.1 oz.).

Mami Wata is a water spirit venerated in West, Central, and Southern Africa, and in the African diaspora in the Americas.

The Baule are an Akan people and one of the largest groups in Côte d’Ivoire who historically migrated from Ghana.

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