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eBay Item: Lobi Figure. Specifications: 18 x 8.5 x 3 cm Origin: Burkina Faso, Cote de Ivorie & Ghana (see ethnographic notes below) Medium: Timber Carving. Shipping African Origins ship dozens of international orders every week to every corner of the globe. We generally use Australia Post, a reliable, economic and fast service which also features online tracking. For multiple orders weighing over five kilograms we ship or via International Air Courier which also features online tracking. Please feel free to contact us directly with your country and zip code if you have any questions or special requirements regarding shipping or wish to obtain a quote for shipping to your area. We are happy to calculate combined postage quotes for multiple items. Returns African Origins sells tribal objects which have been used, in some cases, for many, many years. We ask that you carefully study the photographs relating to each object prior to committing to purchase. In the event that you are unhappy with your purchase for any reason, we accept refunds within seven days of purchase. We offer a full refund or a credit note valid for twelve months, which ever you prefer. About African Origins African Origins has been trading online since 2007. We are constantly on the look out for interesting objects to add to our collection. Our tribal collection is sourced from tribal dealers,auction houses, private collections the world over and also collected in the field.. Where possible, we will specify the provenance of important individual tribal objects. Feedback The success of African Origins depends on positive feedback. If you are happy with your purchase, please leave positive feedback and we will do the same for you. If you are not happy, please contact us first before leaving negative feedback and we will do all within our power to rectify the problem. The Lobi people number 160,000 to 300,000. Avoiding contact with Europeans, for a long time they escaped ethnographic observation, and their sculpture was not completely discovered until 1950s. Very few Lobi have converted to either Christianity or Islam. Their land is well watered and sparsely forested, with enough seasonal rainfall to grow sorghum, millet and corn, and root crops such as yams. The men work the fields, but it is the women who sow and carry the ears of corn in large baskets on their head. They raise cattle and many kinds of poultry, primarily used for sacrifices and for payment of the bride price. During the wet season when they are not in the fields, the men work wood and iron, labor in the foundry, and build houses. The Lobi were not familiar with centralized authority but were organized in groups of patrilineal and matrilineal clans. They revere spirits known as thil. These thil communicate religious laws to the community through diviners, and these laws govern the community. Sculptors, who live off farming, devote only part of their time to sculpture; their period of apprenticeship may be reduced, so that the objects are of variable quality, often quite mediocre. The Lobi do not use masks, but create male and female spirit figures called bateba and heads sculpted on top of a post planted in the ground. Bateba is considered as a living being and may see, communicate, and intervene on behalf of its thil spirit. Lobi figures are between 2” and 35” high. In every house a small shrine room is set apart for the worship of ancestral spirits. Shrines are built to the thil spirits under the instructions of a sorcerer and are filled with a variety of wooden statues together with assortment of clay sculptures, iron staffs, bottles, pots and the like. Frequent sacrifices are made at these shrines to ensure the goodwill of the ancestors, and to avoid Illness and misfortune. The figures, associated with the dead, are beings that are somewhere between spirits and people and may represent the dead, or ghost, or bush spirit. The figures preside over foundation rites, essential for obtaining protection for new homes. They were also used by soothsayers and by the leaders of the family cult. Large heads depicted on a post or stake form a unique category of Lobi sculpture. Many examples are sculpted with great care and attention to detail, and, unlike the full-bodied figures, they often show a triple scarification at the temple. These sculpted heads were fixed into the ground at various shrines and in the open air. They are found with their spike set into the top of an external wall, where they served as guardians of the house. The Lobi also produce seats with three feet, sometimes decorated with a human or animal figure. Lobi arts also include a wide variety of small human and animal images, implements, and more abstract symbols in copper alloy and iron. Some of these are worn as jewelry and some appear on shrines.
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