Lobi Figure Batebi Janus: Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana. Cm. 108 heavy and hard wood, cloth, cowries (small shells, once used as bargaining chips), dry sacrificial patina
very particular style of these lobes Janus, surely a sculpture made for family use!
figures with two heads, I called Bala Dorka, represent deities whose ability to see in several directions at once makes them particularly dangerous
and powerful, which some have used against witchcraft!
