Baule Vintage Male Spirit Mate Figure | 11"
$750.00
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 woman who used it exactly that way until she either died or she felt that this was no longer her one true mate and she got another one.
This authentic figure measures: 11 3/4" tall (30 cm)