Description

The honey frame is made in MDF with fabric and glass and includes a sawtooth hanger on the back.
Framed gold weight, framed pendant cast miniatures bronze mask.
The baule represents one of the tribes of the Ivory Coast. Their name is the testimony to their birth. According to the legend, Queen Abla Pokou led their people on an exodus toward the gold mining areas during the 18th century and had to cross a river. She had to sacrifice her son, thus giving her people the name baule meaning “the child is dead”. During the 19th century, the Queen Dom disintegrated due to internal conflicts, and by the beginning of the 20th century when French colonials arrived, they found only a network of villages headed by council venerated men. Baule artists produce numerous works of art and Baule carvers are still active today. With their great sense of stylization and attention of detail, they produce some of the most elegant objects of African art.