A female Senufo Rhythmpounder called "déblé" , Northern Ivory Coast, village Nafou - uprising from a cylindrical, base with straight, shortened legs, the openwork arms carved beside a slender body with a small pointed navel, the columnar neck supporting a zoomorphic head witha prominent snout, wearing a domed, single crested coiffure, scarification patterns at the body and around the navel; aged patina, the neck, the arms and the base of the statue with significant signs of use, metal brackets at the right shoulder, remants of pigments at the fascial plane and at the coiffure. The sculpture is still in the original condition like it was collected in situ. Normally these traces of use are washed off as soon as these objects arrive on the Western market.

A lecture of Dr. Junker, Iwalewa House, Universität Bayreuth, "Verein Freunde Afrikanischer Kultur e.V." about the "original condition" of ritual objects from Africa in Western Collections. (in German)

According of Gottschalk, who tryed to make a typolgy of the Senufo Déblé these exemplares would be probably submitted to the group of the kulibèlè and not the fonombèlè.

"Während die ersteren (fonombèlè) entweder wegen mangelnder Fähigkeit zu feinerer Arbeit (the fonombèlè are the blacksmiths in the Senufo society) oder als bewußt eingesetztes Stilmittel die klaren und wuchtigen Formen, die kontrastierenden Waagerechten und Senkrechten weitgehend so beließen, wie sie bei der Festlegung der Proportionen entstanden waren, bemühen sich die kulibèlè (the traditional carver) um ein weiches Ineinanderfließen der Körperteile, soweit sie nicht den Stil ihrer älteren Brüder in ihre Arbeit aufnahmen oder ihn mehr oder weniger kopierten."
Gottschalk Burkhard, "Senufo, Massa und die Statuen des poro" 2002: 43

More realistic sounds the opinion of Glaze, who described the difficulties of a stylistic typology according of both ethnic groups after she did fieldwork around kufulo (region of Dikodougou)Glaze Anita J., "Art and Death in a Senufo Village", Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1981:

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Height: 120 cm
Weight: 9,2 kg