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Sculpture - Wood - Senufo - Ivory Coast

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A female Rhythmpounder - called Déblé - Northern Ivory Coast, village Kanoroba - uprising from a cylindrical, lightly concave base with straight, shortened legs, the openwork arms carved beside a slender body with a small pointed navel, the columnar neck supporting a zoomorphic head with a protruding lower jaw, wearing a comb-like crested coiffure, scarification patterns at the body and around the navel; aged patina, the neck, the arms and the base of the statue with significant signs of ritual use, the sculpture is still in the original condition like it was collected in situ. Normally these traces of use are washed off as soon as these objects arrive on the Western market, provenance Mohamed Belo Garba, Korhogo, Ivory Coast. Lit. : A lecture of Dr. Junker, "der Originalzustand. . Wo ist er geblieben? " Gottschalk Burkhard, "Senufo, Massa und die Statuen des poro" 2002: 43; Glaze Anita J. , "Art and Death in a Senufo Village", Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1981. A related eyemplare: Robert Goldwater, Senufo Sculpture from West Africa, New York, 1964, ills. 88 and 88a, Werner Gillon. Additional fees may be collected.

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A female Rhythmpounder - called Déblé - Northern Ivory Coast, village Kanoroba - uprising from a cylindrical, lightly concave base with straight, shortened legs, the openwork arms carved beside a slender body with a small pointed navel, the columnar neck supporting a zoomorphic head with a protruding lower jaw, wearing a comb-like crested coiffure, scarification patterns at the body and around the navel; aged patina, the neck, the arms and the base of the statue with significant signs of ritual use, the sculpture is still in the original condition like it was collected in situ. Normally these traces of use are washed off as soon as these objects arrive on the Western market, provenance Mohamed Belo Garba, Korhogo, Ivory Coast. Lit. : A lecture of Dr. Junker, "der Originalzustand. . Wo ist er geblieben? " Gottschalk Burkhard, "Senufo, Massa und die Statuen des poro" 2002: 43; Glaze Anita J. , "Art and Death in a Senufo Village", Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1981. A related eyemplare: Robert Goldwater, Senufo Sculpture from West Africa, New York, 1964, ills. 88 and 88a, Werner Gillon. Additional fees may be collected.

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