A male Senufo rhythm pounder, Deble, Ivory Coast, standing on a tall cylindrical base, slender slightly bent legs terminating in prominent buttocks, an abstract elongated torso with pointed navel surrounded by ornamental scarification patterns, rounded shoulders, arms resting in front, rings on each wrist and upper arms, a cylindrical neck, a heart shaped face with a slightly protruding mouth beneath a long flattened nose framed by downcast demi-lune eyes, arching brows, semicircular flat ears projecting outwardly from the face, further scarification marks on the face and ears, capped by a domed coiffure; fine reddish, partly encrusted patina with significant traces of age and use, several cracks and an old authentic repair around the ear, incl. stand.

Lit.: Burkhard Gottschalk: Senufo. Massa und die Statuen des Poro, Düsseldorf 2002; Kat. Ausst. Die Kunst der Senufo: Elfenbeinküste. Mit einem Beitrag von Till Förster, Staatliche Museen der Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin, 16.11.1990 - 24.2.1991, Berlin 1990; Die Kunst der Senufo, Museum Rietberg Zürich, aus Schweizer Sammlung, Zürich 1988; Till Förster: Glänzend wie Gold: Gelbguss bei d. Senufo, Elfenbeinküste, Berlin 1987; Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi: Senufo unbound. Dynamics of art and identity in West Africa, Cleveland 2015.

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