A female Senufo Rhythm Pounder - called Déblé -Ivory Coast, region Korhogo, village Kanoroba, standing on a tall cylindrical base, straight feetless legs, the abstract elongated torso is decorated with linear scarification marks around the navel and on the long and tapering breasts, rounded shoulders, the upper arms are very long and each wrist is surrounded by two carved bangles, the hands are resting on the hips, on the slender neck rests an oval head framed by a parted coiffure, directly above the pointed chin lies a square protruding mouth with clenched teeth, the nose is long and has a small tip, the eyes small, the fascial plane with its fine stylized features shows a high degree of abstraction; signs of cultic use in particular at the base, heavy, hard wood. Provenance Mohamed Belo Garba.

Lit.: Anita J. Glaze, Art and Death in a Senufo Village, Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1981. Robert Goldwater, Senufo Sculpture from West Africa - The Museum of Primitive Art New York, 1964. acques Kerchache, Jean-Louis Paudrat and Lucien Stéphan, Art of Africa, New York, 1993. Hans-Joachim Koloss, Till Förster, Die Kunst der Senufo, Elfenbeinküste, 1979. Burkhard Gottschalk, Senufo. Massa und die Statuen des Poro, Düsseldorf 2002. Till Förster, Smoothing the Way of the Dead, A Senufo Rhythm Pounder, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2005): 54ff., ill.

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Height: 125 cm
Weight: 6.1 kg