The more knots, the more powerful the adornment was and the better the chance of protection. The art of the Lobi continues to grow in popularity due to its naive beauty and relative abundance. The iron bracelets made by the Lobi (in Burkina Faso) have knots in them. There are many interesting utilitarian objects, like charming figural slingshots, and small phallic-form flutes and staffs. They make delightful amulets in both animal and human form, with the strange iron snakes perhaps the best-known.
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The Lobi are able freely to distinguish between the nature spirits and the thila based on a series of factors, which at first seem quite confusing to the outsider. Lobi men devote some of their time to the forging of iron and the casting of brass. 210435 - Authentic Antique Lobi couple statue - Burkina Faso 225.00. Below the thila cosmologically, yet above men, are numerous nature spirits. 12 Previously called Republic of Upper Volta (19581984), it was renamed Burkina. The village thil is embodied in a village shrine but, since thila may leave the shrines, they are often uninhabited. The thila are contacted through a diviner who delivers their messages, demands, and prohibitions to the people. Not wanting them to be completely lost, the god sent forth thila to take care of the people. The Mouhoun River (also known as the Black Volta) is important to Lobi peoples.
However, as their numbers began to increase men began to fight one another over women, and as a result the god turned his back on them. RARE French pressing (70s) factory sealed 33rpm LP MUSIQUES Du PAYS LOBI (Upper Volta) Africa Birifor, Dagari, Gan, & Lobi. The Lobi belong to an ethnic group that originated in what is today Ghana. Traditionally, the Lobi governed themselves through the clan system, with no formal political organization. Religious beliefs were purely animistic until Islamic influence entered the area around the 14th century. It is believed by the Lobi that at one time they lived in a metaphorical Garden of Eden at one with the god and wanting for nothing. They are farmers and hunters, growing millet and sorghum as staples. Burkina Faso (formerly known as Upper Volta French: Haute Volta) is a landlocked country located in the middle of West Africas 'hump. Speaking a Gur language of the Niger-Congo family. Caractristiques des migrations et de la nuptialit en pays Lobi Dagara (Haute Volta 1976). The Lobi people live in the western region of Burkina Faso, formerly Upper Volta and in the Ivory Coast.
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