A Lobi sculpture of Bimtiote Dah

A Lobi sculpture of Bimtiote Dah, a carver from the Ivory Coast region; partly fragmentary several insect damages and repairs.

According of Binathé Kambou, who located the artist´s place of birth in the vicinity of Bouna, Ivory Coast, the carvers name is Binyote Dah. He was working near Sansana, 20 km southwords from Gaoua. He died at the beginning of the 1990th, when he was about 70 years old. He has only one son, who is still working as a diviner in the same region. According of Adama Poujougou, Bamako, who saw photos of four objects, this carver is wellknown and once acquired a certain fame for his works, which become rare nowadays, because "the carver died long time ago." Poujougou didn´t know the name of the carver. (More detail informations on request. Even Binathé was the informant of many ethnologists, who did fieldworks in the Lobi-country, secure informations can be only verified by different, independent sources. We will do more researches about the carver and the circumstaces of his life and work on our next tour in February/March. 2008).

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Height: 83 cm

Weight: 5,2 kg