A Senufo couple, Boundiali region, Ivory Coast, the legs uprising from a cylindrical base,slightly bent legs, no traces of feet, both have pointed navels and rangled shoulders, arms falling by their side, the male figure is holding a nif with his right hand, the female figure is holding an infant with her two hands, a cylindrical neck supporting an oval head with a protruding mouth, a stout nose, the crescent-shaped eyea, looking in front of them, crescent eyebrows, the head surmounted with a conical like hairdo; heavy dark brown wood, aged patina, several age cracks.

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: 73 cm / 70 cm
Weight: 4 kg / 4,8 kg