Sculpture - Wood - Senufo - Ivory Coast

A female Senufo sculpture, Ivory Coast, Korhogo, standing on a cylindrical base, short legs, elongated bent arms carved beside a slender torso, which is in shape of three tapering conicals, hanging, tapering breasts, squared shoulders, a long trapezoid neck supporting an ovoid head with a heart-shaped face, a protruding mouth with rows of teeth beneath a long nose framed by heavy-lidded eyes under prominent eyebrows, semi-circular ears, a comb-like coiffure with upward turned braid at the forehead, both upper arms with bangles, scarification marks all over the sculpture; brownish to reddish patina, partly shiny, traces of age and ritual use. Lit. : Burkhard Gottschalk: Senoufo. 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; Till Förster: Glänzend wie Gold: Gelbguss bei d. Senufo, Elfenbeinküste, Berlin 1987.