A female Jimini sculpture from the region of Tehini, Ivory Coast, standing on wedge-shaped feet, short legs, a slender torso with a protruding navel and tapering breasts, above the navel a square incision, the arms crossed at wrist height, the statue wears a kind of lanyard around the thick neck, the mouth closed and the corners of the mouth lifted like smiling, the triangular nose is connected to the closed eyes, a high forehead, a crested hairstyle; a few small age cracks on the back and one on the left wrist, matte patina, traces of age and ritual use. Provenance Mohamed Belo Garba, Korhogo, Ivory Coast.

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.

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Height: 63 cm
Weight: 3,1 kg