A female Senufo Rhythm Pounder, also called Déblé, from the region Diaouala (Diawala), village Diaouala, standing on a cylindrical base, very short legs, elongated torso, the navel surrounded by four scarification marks, the breasts protruding, on each three more scarification marks, strong gluteae, wearing a loin cloth, square shoulders, very long arms, the hands clenched into fists resting on the hips, on the gently curved, long neck rests a downwards prolonged head with an iroquois-like hair cut, outstanding ears, small mouth, long nose, straight and round at the tip; heavy mahogany-colored wood, a softly shining patina.

Lit.: Kat. Ausst. Die Kunst der Senufo, Elfenbeinküste. Mit einem Beitrag von Till Förster, Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin 1990. Burkhard Gottschalk, Senufo. Massa und die Statuen des Poro, Düsseldorf 2002. Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi, Senufo unbound. Dynamics of art and identity in West Africa, 2015. Till Förster, Smoothing the Way of the Dead, A Senufo Rhythm Pounder, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2005).

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Height: 119 cm
Weight: 8.6 kg