Delicate, precise features portray the idealized head of a Baule beauty. She has finely coiffed hair, scarifications and a heart shaped face. Her role in the community was to appear in funerals as entertainment to honor prominent men.
Wood and pigment
14 x 9 1/2 x 7 11/16 in. (35.6 x 24.1 x 19.6 cm)
Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection
51.14
Provenance: Purchased from Altman Antiques; Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection, 1951
Not currently on view
Resources
Published ReferencesHandbook, Seattle Art Museum: Selected Works from the Permanent Collections. Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1951, p. 7 (b&w)
Seattle Art Museum respectfully acknowledges that we are on Indigenous land, the traditional territories of the Coast Salish people. We honor our ongoing connection to these communities past, present, and future.
