Baule Vintage Female Spirit Mate Figure

This authentic vintage Baule figure from Ivory Coast is one of many unique figures of this genre: the Baule believe that every person has a spirit mate/spirit spouse living in a parallel world, the spirit world. That person exercises critical control over all aspects of one's life. When a person needs to solve any prob

This authentic vintage Baule figure from Ivory Coast is one of many unique figures of this genre: the Baule believe that every person has a spirit mate/spirit spouse living in a parallel world, the spirit world. That person exercises critical control over all aspects of one's life. When a person needs to solve any problem in his/her life, he has only to commission the carving of that spirit mate and communicate with it in person. This figure belonged to a man who used it exactly that way until he either died or he felt that this was no longer his one true mate and he got another one.

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The Baule (pronounced bow-lay) people believe there is an alternate world running parallel to the world of the living. The existence of the mate is

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