Sculpture - Wood - Baule - Ivory Coast

A female Baule sculpture of a slave from the Sakasso region, about 60 km from Bouaké, posted on a retangular, rounded base, scarification patterns all over the figure, the hands bounded at the back. Susan Vogel doesn't mention this type of figure, allthough this motive of a slave isn't very rare. If we are interpreting this sculpture as a Blolo Bian figure, this figure of the past life must be a slave. When I heard the first time about the cultural purpose of the Blolo Bian and the Blolo Blan, I must think about the psychological theory of C. G. Jung about the Anima and the Animus. In his essay about "The marriage as a pychological relationsship" he wrote: "Anima and Animus are both characterized by an extraordinary many-sidness. In a marriage it is always the contained who projects this image* upon the container, while the latter is only partially able to procect his unconscious image upon his partner. . . C. G. Jung, The Collected Works, volume seventeen, The Marrige as a pychological Relationsship, London 1954: 198.