Male and Female figure (60k) |
Seated Male Figure (60k) |
The Self and the Other:
Personhood and Images among the Baule
February 19 - April 27, 1997
Opening Reception 18 February, 5 - 7 PM
Male and Female figure (60k) |
Seated Male Figure (60k) |
Standing Male Figure (60k) |
Standing Female Figure (35k) |
Standing Male Figure (35k) |
Standing Male figure (35k) |
Standing Female Figure (30k) |
The Baule
The Baule peoples, who speak a language related to the Akan language of Ghana, live in the savannah of the central region of Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. The Baule are primarily subsistence farmers. Artists work in their spare time, yet have produced impressive numbers of many different kinds of art. They are famous for finely sculpted face masks; carved wood figures; cast gold and copper jewelry; prestige items, such as wood staffs or flywhisks covered with gold foil; and chairs, headrests, and door panels. Ivory was once used to carve bracelets, combs, and side-blown trumpets.Baule artistic creation has taken place within a richly textured history of exchange and inspiration. Each work of art has been created in response to an experience of need, whether practical, aesthetic, or existential--a need for things to be different.
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Images courtesy of the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
Photography: Denis J. Nervig
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