A female Senufo Rhythm Pounder, from the region Nafoun, Ivory Coast, standing on a cylindrical base, short legs leading to prominent buttocks, wearing a loincloth and three rings around the waist, a slender curved torso with solid cone-shaped breasts, on each scarification marks of varied geometric patterns, rounded shoulders leading to very long arms with two rings around each upper arm and one around each wrist, the hands clenched into fists resting on the hips, the elongated cylindrical neck supporting a large head with a strongly projecting chin, a protruding mouth showing two rows of teeth beneath a slender curved nose leading to high arched brows, large coffee-bean eyes, the ears are worked as rings, in whose middle is a deepening, the head capped by an iroquois-like hair cut; hard wood, encrusted brown to reddish patina with remnants of blue pigments, traces of age and ritual use, several cracks. Provenance Mohamed Belo Garba.

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; Homberger Lorenz: Künstler in Werkstätten der Senufo. In: Afrikanische Meister. Kunst der Elfenbeinküste, Zurüch 2014, p. 151-178; Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi: Senufo unbound. Dynamics of art and identity in West Africa, Cleveland 2015.

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Height: 125 cm
Weight: 7.3 kg