A female Senufo Rhythm Pounder, called Déblé, Ivory Coast, standing on a tall cylindrical base, slender slightly bent legs, the abstract elongated torso is decorated on the front with oval, linear scarification marks, tapering breasts, a loincloth covers meagerly the buttocks, rounded shoulders, the arms are each surrounded by a carved bangle and one more at each wrist, the hands clenched to fists are resting in front of the abdomen, on the elongated slender neck with a collar around it carries an oval head with a square protruding mouth beneath an elongated nose leading to high arched brows, the fascial plane with its fine stylized features shows a high degree of abstraction, capped by a domed coiffure which consists of ponytails arranged around the head and a crest on the top; brown patina, traces of age and ritual use, several cracks, hard wood.

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; Wolfgang Jaenicke, Great Arfican Art by a Great African Art Collector and Dealer: Mr. Kaba Cabinet, Ivory Coast.

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Height: 139 cm
Weight: 8,6 kg