Support caryatide d'autel , Karaboro, Burkina Faso

collects ion Thomas G.B. Wheelock, New York

Publication:
Roy & Wheelock, Land of Flying Masks, 2007, n° 39

Good condition overall; wear consistent with age and use within the culture. Eroded due to prolonged use and exposure to the elements, as visible in the catalogue illustration. Traces of encrusted red, black, and white pigments to the figure.
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Si les anthropologues associent les Karaboro (sud-ouest du Burkina Faso) au peuple Sénufo, certaines de leurs traditions, notamment dans les villages de Labola, de Tiefora et de Kassal, les lient plus direct.mes nt à leurs voisins septentrionaux, les Bobo. Parmi elles notamment les cultes dédiés aux forces contrôlant l'équilibre et l'harmonie du monde, matérialisées par des autels érigés dans les villages.

Ce poteau caryatide supportait une jarre contenant des éléments associés à la divinité protectrice. Il se distingue par les volumes compacts du personnage féminin, se fondant dans le mouvement naturel du tronc et de la veinure du bois dur profondément érodé - superbe hommage à ces esprits apportant au monde son harmonie, qui se matérialisent le plus souvent dans des végétaux.  

Karaboro caryatid altar support, Burkina Faso

Whilst anthropologists link the Karaboro (south-western Burkina Faso) with the Senufo people, some of their traditions, particularly in the villages of Labola, Tiefora, and Kassal, link them more directly with the Bobo, their northern neighbours. Amongst these traditions are cults dedicated to the forces that control the balance and harmony of the world, which materialise on altars erected in the villages.

This caryatid post supports a vessel that would have contained materials associated with the protective deity. The post is distinguished by the compact volumes of the female figure, which blend naturally into the form of the trunk, and by the deeply eroded grain of the dense and exceedingly hard wood. The post's synergy with the natural material it is created from seems a fitting tribute to the spirits of harmony, which generally materialized in vegetation.