A beautiful and ancient female waka sona statuette, most probably a bride in the blolo bla afterlife, scarified notably at the temples and neck, sporting a beautiful braided hairstyle and turning sideways, tinted with ochre pigment, and sculpted in a very dynamic ancient style, the face with large and beautiful well-defined arches overhanging her eyes where the eye and eyelid are sculpted quite distinctly, her mouth is closed sculpted in flatness, an idealized woman, with dynamic and taut breasts. Baule, Ivory Coast Wood, pigment, pearl necklaces, accident (old restoration and consolidation at the tip of the right breast), old cracks, beautiful old oxidation of the wood, beautiful patina of use. Height: 38 cm Provenance : Charles Ratton, Paris, according to family tradition Private collection, Brussels