{"data": {"id": 143174, "accession_number": "1967.152", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Figure (ba\u00e0th\u00edl), c. 1900. Burkina Faso, Ghana, or C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Lobi\u2013style artist. Wood and organic materials; overall: 63.6 cm (25 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph M. Coe from various donors, 1967.152", "current_location": "108A African", "title": "Figure (ba\u00e0th\u00edl)", "creation_date": "c. 1900", "creation_date_earliest": 1895, "creation_date_latest": 1905, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Burkina Faso, Ghana, or C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Lobi\u2013style artist"], "technique": "Wood and organic materials", "support_materials": [], "department": "African Art", "collection": "African Art", "type": "Sculpture", "measurements": "Overall: 63.6 cm (25 1/16 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.636, "height_inch": 25, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0625}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 301129, "title": "Year in Review: 1967", "description": "<i>Year in Review: 1967</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967).", "opening_date": "1967-11-29T05:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "(Mathias Komor, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "by at least 1967", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1967-", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Historically, figures like this <em>ba\u00e0th\u00edl</em> were associated with harmful spirits. Less common nowadays, they are used for different reasons, like to relieve suffering from malnutrition.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "This headpost (<em>ba\u00e0th\u00edl</em>) was likely a temporary sanctuary for <em>kh\u00e9l\u00e9</em>, a harmful spirit released after killing a person or dangerous animal. Around 1900, members of the <em>Milku\u00f9r</em> religious association used ba\u00e0th\u00edla to counteract kh\u00e9l\u00e9. While the head resembles that of a teenage girl with pierced upper lip and earlobes, the roughly hewn, pole-like bottom suggests otherwise. Buried in an altar, devotees ritually applied materials that darkened the exposed head. When the owner died, the kh\u00e9l\u00e9 left the sculpture; no longer sacred, it was buried. Milku\u00f9r\u2019s strict rules ensure these objects are made from the appropriate wood and that artists\u2019 names remain secret.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80043497"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1967.152-figure-baathil"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "\u201cYear in Review.\u201d <em>Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> vol. 54, no. 10 (December 1967): 302-347.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 340, fig. 43 (detail); Mentioned: p. 342, no. 43", "url": "https://www-jstor-org.ingallslibrary.idm.oclc.org/stable/25152183?refreqid=excelsior%3A32710a59fa10a109230a2def69a633e2&seq=41#metadata_info_tab_contents"}, {"citation": "Meauze\u0301, Pierre. <em>African Art: Sculpture</em> [1st ed.] ed. Cleveland: World Pub. Co., 1968", "page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 48-49", "url": "https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/255836"}, {"citation": null, "page_number": "p 48-49, illustrated (1968, as M. 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