A male Senufo sculpture, standing on large feet, convex-shaped legs ending up in prominent buttocks, well emphasized genitals, wearing a belt around the hips, a slender toros with a pointed navel, which is surrounded by radially arranged scarification marks, slightly bent arms curved close to the body, with one ring around each upper arm and one around each wrist, notched back line, a cylindrical neck supporting an elongated head with bulging heavy lidded eyes and a pointed mouth, showing the teeth, an elongated triangular nose, large semi-circular ears projecting outwardly from the face, surmounted by a chameleon; reddish patina, traces of age and ritual use, several cracks, partly eroded.

Lit.: Burkhard Gottschalk, Senufo. Massa und die Statuen des Poro, 2002; Staatliche Museen der Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin, Die Kunst der Senufo, Elfenbeinküste. Mit einem Beitrag von Till Förster, 1990; Museum Rietberg Zürich, Die Kunst der Senufo aus Schweizer Sammlungen, 1988; Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi, Senufo unbound. Dynamics of art and identity in West Africa, Cleveland 2015.

900 - 1.200,- Euro

Height: 85 cm
Weight: 5,30 kg